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“The actual place that is the real-life equivalent right now of the paranoid dream contained in the phrase “Ground Zero Mosque” has been up and running since before there was a World Trade Center, and since the nine years since there has been a World Trade Center — running without controversy, without incident, without terrorism, without protest, because this is America, dammit, and in America when somebody comes for your neighbor, or his Bible, or his Torah, or his atheist manifesto, or his Koran, you and I do what our fathers did, and what our grandmothers did, and our founders did — you and I speak up.”