“Park51 should continue because it’s more an issue to American Muslims – over here, in the U.S. – than it is about the Muslim world, radicals or not. Yes, the ability of the U.S. to lecture anyone on religious freedom would be seriously compromised but for an imam to play the card of the "radicals in the Muslim world who would threaten our national security" is dancing on the stereotype of Muslims as crazies who need little reason to go berserk. That was essentially the reason which a number of U.S. officials from the president himself to General Petraeus in Afghanistan used as they lined up to plead with Pastor Jones in Gainesville to cancel his threat to burn the Quran. Instead of emphasizing that burning books would put him on the same ignoble path as Nazis and the mobs which burned Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses", the message was "Don’t drive the crazy Muslims even crazier!"”