The Mosque Analysis - Part 2
The power of suggestion (2) has been able to create perceptions that are very different from what the planners of Park51 project had envisaged. They planned for a community center, an interfaith discussions forum, a bridge across the divides and, of course, the mosque (1). 
Let us ask ourselves a basic question: Why did they need to do so? Why did they get so focused on Ground Zero site? Do you get an overwhelmingly huge surge traveling out of your throat and filling the entire sky above you…? Yes, I can almost hear that happening. They felt responsible! They felt responsible to do so in light of the fact that the perpetrators of the WTC attacks claimed that their feat was in the name of the religion that they followed. The attacks at the WTC were in the name of religion, and not in the name of nationality. And the mosque belongs to the same religion.
There is a fallacy in the argument, a very obvious one….the argument ad hominem, abusive as well as the argument ad hominem, circumstantial (3) . For the sheer reason that the people planning the project belong to the same religion as those who committed the crime against humanity, even the proposed and supposed good deeds of such people cannot become questionable. Their character cannot be doubted. Also, it is a coincidence that a large number of anti-America acts of terrorism are being conducted by followers of a specific religion. But such acts do not make all others following the same religion responsible for those acts.
Who committed the fallacy? "Of course those who are opposing the Park51 project!" This could be a very obvious answer. Not really! The fallacy has been committed by the project planners. It is the project planners who have clubbed themselves with those who committed the crime.
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