“The real problem is the willingness of (some of) the people of America and other Western democracies to forgo the fundamental rights enshrined in their constitution, and underlying their sense of themselves as belonging to a free nation made up of free citizens, when it comes to allowing fellow citizens, no matter how recently naturalized they are, to practice these same rights. What the members of the Cordoba Project are denied in the recent polls showing that 70% of all New Yorkers oppose the project is not simply the right to practice their religion, it is actually the right to enjoy their rights as citizens according to the First Amendment.”