We've just posted an editorial (to be published in our September 10, 2010, issue) on the controversy over the proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. Here's how it begins:

In the past nine years, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have been invoked, distorted, and exploited to serve a variety of political and ideological agendas. But no such effort has been quite as shameful as the current campaign against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque.

Read the whole thing here.