Pam, I don't really think reciprocity applies here - we're not talking about the same people, after all. If the Saudis don't respect the rights of women, Jews, Shi'a, everyone who isn't Saudi, etc, that might justify us saying we don't recognize the rights of those Saudi wahhabists who propagate and enforce these ignoble and degrading opinions. However, I don't see what the bad behavior of the Saudi government has to do with the Lebanese American guy who owns a halal truck (man, those guys have tasty shwarmas), or the Egyptian who delivers pizzas, or the Sudanese taxi driver, or the Syrian banker whose family has been in America for a hundred years, or the Jordanian American translator/analyst on New York's counter terrorism task force. These people and their families are the ones who will actually worship at the mosque and community center. Not the Taliban. Not al Qaeda. Not the radical Saudi fundamentalists. When we fail to make that distinction, we concede Osama bin Laden's key point - that America is at war against Islam.
