Regarding the New York City mosque controversy part two

The inability to negotiate and discuss is, apart from medevial thinking and gender apartheid, the biggest problem in our inability to work with these extremists. American muslims have been speaking from many sides on the issues, and have acted as Americans ought to. We need not fear them themselves. The intelligentsia, however, sees any unwillingness to let this be built as evil intolerance, and feel no need to see the other side or discuss it. Very similar to other extremists, except for the fact al-qaeda doesnt teach our children or make up the majority of our media. I truly believe American muslims do nothing but hinder terrorist efforts in their willingness for dialogue and compromise, but I do worry about the absolute intolerance of the tolerance crowd. If al-qaeda is making inroads in this country, it is through them. Dogmatism loves dogmatism, and they have a mutual hatred of the west (the very west whose economic foundations provide for their soy burgers and college educations, but thats well known)