The Ground Zero mosque must be built

[HAL 9000 96]

Right or wrong, people associate 9/11 attacks with Muslims and don't want to see any Islamic shіt in the proximity of the World Trade Center / Ground Zero site.

It's not that difficult to grasp, is it?

Maybe they can learn to not be misinformed.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Except it's a lie - the mosque will be a 13-story complex with a price tag of 100 million dollars,

not some run-down old building between a Burlington Coat Factory and a bar.

It will be bigger than the memorial itself, which is a slap in the face of 9/11 victims.

What memorial?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I wonder if asking (again) what reasonable arguments there are against the mosque will result in an answer.

Marc, sitting there and trying to claim that the bigots aren't bigots when their arguments so clearly are derived from prejudice is all well and good - but it would help if you had some substance to support your defence.

I thought you were one of the people who believed in the idea that if it quacked like a duck... Well these people sound like bigots, their words are bigoted, they just might be bigots!

If you disagree - feel free to explain WHY you disagree. Because disagreeing for the sake of disagreement simply isn't convincing (or compelling).

You are so hard lined and one sided on the subject its truly telling. the 9/11 site is a sacred place to a lot of ppl which you dispell and call a joke. This place can not be moved! On the other hand the mosque can be put somewhere else. respecting all involved sensitivities this would be the easiest way to deal with the issue. Its ppl like you that throw around the accusations that if your against the mosque your all bigots and think all muslims are terrorists. What a bunch of tripe!

[mawilson 2,133]

What memorial?

What mosque?

[mawilson 2,133]

Maybe they can learn to not be misinformed.

Maybe they can. Let's give it 30 years and revisit the mosque issue in 2040.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You are so hard lined and one sided on the subject its truly telling. the 9/11 site is a sacred place to a lot of ppl which you dispell and call a joke. This place can not be moved! On the other hand the mosque can be put somewhere else. respecting all involved sensitivities this would be the easiest way to deal with the issue. Its ppl like you that throw around the accusations that if your against the mosque your all bigots and think all muslims are terrorists. What a bunch of tripe!

Tell me why you think it should be moved. Better than that tell me why we should listen to the sensitivities of people who want it moved.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I would also like to know why the 99% of peaceful muslims havent infiltrated the 1% of the radical ones and taken them out?

[William33 110]

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[Peikko 1,575]

Right or wrong, people associate 9/11 attacks with Muslims and don't want to see any Islamic shіt in the proximity of the World Trade Center / Ground Zero site.

It's not that difficult to grasp, is it?

Of course I grasp it, only too well. A mosque however is not terrorist shite . You might not like anything to do with Islam and muslims, and you don't have to like it, but under constitutional protections of all religions, you have to accept that muslims have a right to go about their business just like you do.

[HAL 9000 96]

Maybe they can. Let's give it 30 years and revisit the mosque issue in 2040.

You know what's going to happen right?

The center will be built, and those looking to lift political brownie points out of this will make up another stupid and hysterical issue to hit the Democrats on. And many people that fell for this 'issue' will give lip service to the next big waste of time while nothing gets resolved on the national level.

[Peikko 1,575]

I would also like to know why the 99% of peaceful muslims havent infiltrated the 1% of the radical ones and taken them out?

How do you suppose someone who is peaceful and respectful should 'infiltrate' a radical terrorist?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Tell me why you think it should be moved. Better than that tell me why we should listen to the sensitivities of people who want it moved.

50/50 on the sensitivities. Of course bigots have a hard time with that concept.

[SMOKE 1,426]

so what happens when some street vendors wanna sell bbq pork sammies & sausages infront of the building?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

As a mom, I never gave in to my kids unreasonable demands to keep the peace. Yea, it's easier to give in, but it also creates an expectation on the part of immature whiners that all they have to do is cry about their feelings to get their way. That's a bad precedent to set.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I would also like to know why the 99% of peaceful muslims havent infiltrated the 1% of the radical ones and taken them out?

All Muslims together eh? And I thought the depiction of blacks in early 70s New York was dated when they did it in Live and Let Die.