Pat gets mad

[Napoléon]

While I personally don't agree with banning a mosque/community centre near ground zero, I fully understand why people wouldn't want one there. Let's face facts. The people who killed thousands were self proclaimed muslims. Now I wouldn't say it was at all irrational, to say no to building a mosque at the site of all of those deaths which were supposedly 'in the name of Islam'.
I think it is absolutely insensitive.

Firstly, the idea that the mosque is "at the site of all those deaths" is absurd, and reveal how much you actually know about the community centre. The people who destroyed the towers we muslims, but were of a completely different sect of Islam than anyone building the mosque. It's why we don't blame all Christians when abortion clinics are bombed, or when they build icons of stupidity like creation museums. We don't stop them from building churches, when so much destruction has come out of their religion, but for some reason we do it when it's Islam. The only reason is pure hatred, and that is exactly why the politicians of New York are letting the mosque be built; because at the end of the day, people are associating the mosque with the attack in a way which is unfair on those building the mosque.

I happen to agree with you Tiberius (as I said in the original comment), but I completely understand the other spectrum of the argument. Fact is people will see it as insensitive to build a mosque there, simple as that. I just don't see the point of why they keep pushing the 'community centre' or whatever it is. There are plenty of other places they could build one, and surely they themselves can understand why there would be issues building one where they want to build it. That's not to say I think they shouldn't be able to build there just like anyone else, but I think the decent thing to do would be to just build it somewhere the fuck else and save all the aggro it's gonna cause.