Flat as the Rocky Mountains

In relation to Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat, & Crowded, this seems to be an interesting way of disproving his theory that the twenty-first century world has become flat or equal.

Caroline Hunt, a resident of Manhattan, said she felt locating a new Islamic center close to ground zero would be “insensitive.”

Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated to a less controversial site farther away from ground zero in Lower Manhattan, including many who say they favor the project, according to a New York Times poll. The poll indicates that support for the 13-story complex, which organizers said would promote moderate Islam and interfaith dialogue, is tepid in its home town.
Nearly a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks ignited a wave of anxiety about Muslims, many in the country’s biggest and arguably most cosmopolitan city still have an uneasy relationship with Islam. One-fifth of New Yorkers acknowledged animosity toward Muslims. Thirty-three percent said that compared with other American citizens, Muslims were more sympathetic to terrorists. And nearly 60 percent said people they now had negative feelings toward Muslims because of 9/11.

 I believe that this shows how little people forget when it comes to the safety of their friends and family. Or that people are so ignorant as to make false connections between the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and every Muslim person in the world.