they could answer it. the pro-port forces are throwing around the "racist" term, the "religious bigot" term, all over the place here.
so I ask those same people - would you sell the WTC site to the UAE, or to the Saudis? that's a private transaction too, the Arabs own alot of manhattan real estate now. should they be able to buy the WTC site?
they can't answer it. because if they answer "no", then they will have to admit that they are xenophobes too, they would not allow the WTC site to be owned by Arabs - and the basis for that rejection would obviously be their ethnicity/religion.
if they answer "yes", that they would allow them to own it - they will show themselves as being near insane, believing that the idea of "tolerance" for islam, should extend to the US allowing middle eastern government owned quasi-corporate entities, to own the WTC site.
so they duck the question.
what a straw man. you know that WTC site is not for sale.
This is just an example of the hysterics extant over this issue.
I personally would have no objection if the rightful owner
of the site were to put it on the market. And, if Saudis
buy it, then that is their right. The Supremes would likely
find it unconstitutional to disciminate against them in the event.