American Rhetoric: Michael Bloomberg - Governors Island Speech on Religious Tolerance | michaelbloombergdefenseofnymosque
Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque
支持宗教宽容和纽约市清真寺的讲话
delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York
2010 年 8 月 3 日交付，纽约总督岛
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It is, by my watch, one minute before noon, but I will still say, good afternoon.
根据我的手表，距离中午还有一分钟，但我仍然会说，下午好。
We've come here to Governors Island to stand where the earliest settlers first set foot in New Amsterdam, and where the seeds of religious tolerance were first planted.
我们来到总督岛，是为了见证最早的定居者首次踏足新阿姆斯特丹的地方，也是宗教宽容的种子最初播下的地方。
We've come here to see the inspiring symbol of liberty that, more than 250 years later, would greet millions of immigrants in the -- this harbor, and we come here to state as strongly as ever: This is the freest City in the world.
我们来到这里是为了看到鼓舞人心的自由象征，250 多年后，它将在这个港口迎接数百万移民，我们来到这里一如既往地强烈声明：这是世界上最自由的城市。
That's what makes New York special and different and strong.
这就是纽约的独特、与众不同和强大的原因。
Our doors are open to everyone -- everyone with a dream and a willingness to work hard and play by the rules.
我们的大门向所有人敞开——每个有梦想、愿意努力工作、遵守规则的人。
New York City was built by immigrants, and it's sustained by immigrants -- by people from more than a hundred different countries speaking more than two hundred different languages and professing every faith.
纽约市是由移民建造的，也是由移民维持的——来自一百多个不同国家、讲两百多种不同语言、拥有各种信仰的人们。
And whether your parents were born here, or you came yesterday, you are a New Yorker.
无论你的父母出生在这里，还是你昨天才来到这里，你都是纽约人。
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors.
我们可能并不总是同意我们每一位邻居的观点。
That's life and it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city.
这就是生活，也是生活在如此多元化和密集的城市的一部分。
But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance.
但我们也认识到，作为纽约人的一部分就是与邻居相互尊重和宽容地生活。
It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11 , 2001.
正是这种开放和接受的精神在 2001 年 9 月 11 日受到了攻击。
On that day, 3,000 people were killed because some murderous fanatics didn't want us to enjoy the freedoms to profess our own faiths, to speak our own minds, to follow our own dreams, and to live our own lives.
那天，有 3,000 人被杀，因为一些凶残的狂热分子不希望我们享有表达自己的信仰、表达自己的想法、追随自己的梦想和过自己的生活的自由。
Of all our precious freedoms, the most important may be the freedom to worship as we wish.
在我们所有宝贵的自由中，最重要的可能是按照我们的意愿进行礼拜的自由。
And it is a freedom that, even here in a City that is rooted in Dutch tolerance, was hard-won over many years.
即使在一个植根于荷兰宽容的城市，这种自由也是多年来来之不易的。
In the mid-1650s, the small Jewish community living in Lower Manhattan petitioned Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant for the right to build a synagogue -- and they were turned down.
1650 年代中期，居住在曼哈顿下城的犹太小社区向荷兰总督 Peter Stuyvesant 请求获得建造犹太教堂的权利，但遭到拒绝。
In 1657, when Stuyvesant also prohibited Quakers from holding meetings, a group of non-Quakers in Queens signed the Flushing Remonstrance , a petition in defense of the right of Quakers and others to freely practice their religion.
1657年，史岱文森也禁止贵格会教徒举行集会，皇后区的一群非贵格会教徒签署了《法拉盛抗议书》，这是一份捍卫贵格会教徒和其他人自由信奉宗教的权利的请愿书。
It was perhaps the first formal, political petition for religious freedom in the American colonies, and the organizer was thrown in jail and then banished from New Amsterdam.
这可能是美洲殖民地第一次正式的政治请愿书，要求宗教自由，组织者被投入监狱，然后被驱逐出新阿姆斯特丹。
In the 19 -- In the 1700s, even as religious freedom took hold in America, Catholics in New York were effectively prohibited from practicing their religion -- and priests could be arrested.
在 19 世纪 - 1700 年代，即使宗教自由在美国占据主导地位，纽约的天主教徒实际上仍被禁止实践他们的宗教 - 牧师可能会被逮捕。
Largely as a result, the first Catholic parish in New York City was not established until the 1780's -- St. Peter's on Barclay Street , which still stands just one block north of the World Trade Center site and one block south of the proposed mosque and community center.
很大程度上是由于这个原因，纽约市的第一个天主教教区直到 1780 年代才建立——位于巴克利街的圣彼得教区，该教区至今仍矗立在世界贸易中心遗址以北一个街区、拟议的清真寺和社区中心以南一个街区处。
This morning, the City's Landmark Preservation Commission unanimously voted to extend -- not to extend landmark status to the building on Park Place where the mosque and community center are planned.
今天早上，市地标保护委员会一致投票决定延长——不延长公园广场建筑的地标地位，那里计划建造清真寺和社区中心。
The decision was based solely on the fact that there was little architectural significance to the building.
该决定仅基于该建筑几乎没有建筑意义的事实。
But with or without landmark designation, there is nothing in the law that would prevent the owners from opening a mosque within the existing building.
但无论有没有地标指定，法律中都没有任何规定可以阻止业主在现有建筑内开设清真寺。
The simple fact is this building is private property, and the owners have a right to use the building as a house of worship.
简单的事实是，这座建筑是私人财产，业主有权使用该建筑作为礼拜堂。
And the government has no right whatsoever to deny that right, and if it were tried, the courts would almost certainly strike it down as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
政府没有任何权利否认这一权利，如果进行审判，法院几乎肯定会以违反美国宪法为由予以驳回。
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
无论你对拟议中的清真寺和社区中心有何看法，在激烈的辩论中都迷失了一个基本问题：政府是否应该试图剥夺公民根据其特定宗教在私人财产上建造礼拜堂的权利？
That may happen in other countries, but we should never allow it to happen here.
这种情况在其他国家可能会发生，但我们决不允许它在这里发生。
This nation was founded on the principle that the government must never choose between religions, or favor one over another.
这个国家的建立原则是政府决不能在宗教之间进行选择，或者偏袒一种宗教。
The World Trade Center Site will forever hold a special place in our City, in our hearts.
世界贸易中心遗址将永远在我们的城市、我们的心中占有特殊的地位。
But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves, and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans, if we said "no" to a mosque in Lower Manhattan.
但如果我们对曼哈顿下城的一座清真寺说“不”，那么我们就没有忠于自己最好的一面，也没有忠于我们作为纽约人和美国人的身份。
Let us not forget that Muslims were among those murdered on 9/11 and that our Muslim neighbors grieved with us as New Yorkers -- and as Americans.
我们不要忘记，9/11 遇害者中有穆斯林，我们的穆斯林邻居对我们作为纽约人和美国人感到悲痛。
We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else.
如果我们以不同于其他人的方式对待穆斯林，我们就会背叛我们的价值观，并落入敌人的手中。
In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists -- and we should not stand for that.
事实上，屈服于民众情绪就等于将胜利拱手让给恐怖分子——我们不应该容忍这种情况。
For that reason, I believe that this is an important test of the separation of church and state as we may see in our lifetimes -- as important a test -- and it is critically important that we get it right.
出于这个原因，我相信这是对政教分离的一个重要考验，正如我们在有生之年可能会看到的那样——同样重要的考验——而且我们正确对待它至关重要。
On September 11th, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.
2001年9月11日，数千名急救人员英勇赶赴现场，挽救了数万人的生命。
More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive.
超过 400 名急救人员未能生还。
In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, "What God do you pray to?" "What beliefs do you hold?" The attack was an act of war, and our first responders defended not only our City but our country and our Constitution.
当他们冲进那些燃烧的建筑物时，没有人问：“你向哪位上帝祈祷？” “你有什么信念？”这次袭击是一种战争行为，我们的第一批响应者不仅捍卫了我们的城市，而且捍卫了我们的国家和我们的宪法。
We do not honor their lives by denying the very Constitutional rights they died protecting.
我们不会通过否认他们死后所保护的宪法权利来尊重他们的生命。
We honor their lives by defending those rights, and the freedoms that the terrorists attacked.
我们通过捍卫这些权利以及恐怖分子袭击的自由来尊重他们的生命。
Of course, it is fair to ask the organizers of the mosque to show some special sensitivity to the situation -- and in fact, their plan envisions reaching beyond their walls and building an interfaith community.
当然，要求清真寺的组织者对这种情况表现出某种特殊的敏感性是公平的——事实上，他们的计划设想超越他们的围墙，建立一个跨宗教社区。
B[y] doing so, it is my hope that the mosque will help to bring our City even closer together and help repudiate the false and repugnant idea that the attacks of 9/11 were in any ways consistent with Islam.
通过这样做，我希望清真寺能够帮助我们的城市更加紧密地联系在一起，并帮助驳斥“9/11 袭击在任何方面都符合伊斯兰教”的错误和令人反感的想法。
Muslims are as much a part of our City and our country as the people of any faith and they are as welcome to worship in Lower Manhattan as any other group.
穆斯林与任何信仰的人民一样是我们城市和国家的一部分，并且像任何其他群体一样欢迎他们在曼哈顿下城进行礼拜。
In fact, they have been worshiping at the site for better -- the better part of a year, as is their right.
事实上，他们一直在该地点进行礼拜，以求更好——一年中的大部分时间，这是他们的权利。
The local community board in Lower Manhattan voted overwhelming to support the proposal and if it moves forward, I expect the community center and mosque will add to the life and vitality of the neighborhood and the entire City.
曼哈顿下城的当地社区委员会以压倒性的票数支持了该提案，如果该提案得以推进，我预计社区中心和清真寺将为该社区乃至整个城市增添生机和活力。
Political controversies come and go, but our values and our traditions endure -- and there is no neighborhood in this City that is off limits to God's love and mercy, as the religious leaders here with us can attest.
政治争议来来去去，但我们的价值观和传统历久弥新——正如与我们在一起的宗教领袖可以证明的那样，在这座城市里，没有一个社区无法享受上帝的爱和怜悯。
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American Rhetoric.
美国修辞学。
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Eidenmuller.
艾登米勒。