Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who has previously backed radical Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, says the proposed 13-story Ground Zero mosque should be moved to another location, out of respect for the victims of the 9/11 attacks.

Prince Alwaleed urged the backers of the proposed Islamic center not to “agitate the wound by saying, ‘We need to put the mosque next to the 9/11 site.’”

“Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York,” the prince was quoted as saying by the magazine, which said the full interview will be published Sunday. “The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can’t say, ‘Let’s just go back to where we were pre-9/11.’”

The prince says the mosque should be built in a “dignified” location but that that location isn’t near Ground Zero. Good on him. Although it’s a bit troubling that a member of the House of Saud is apparently less radically Islamic than Imam Rauf.