Mosque at Ground Zero

[Tiberius]

They can worship where they want. I am not stripping their right to worship, only their privilege to build where they want, which is fully within the rights of the property owners and neighborhood.

The person planning the mosque bought the property which they are building the mosque on. They have all the plans and permissions, and they got them the same way anyone else building a structure would have.

I would oppose vigorously a mosque near my place, not only because of the god awful noise it emits, but because I simply do not want it.

As far as I am aware, this mosque will not have a call to prayer. It would be pointless in a city such as New York. This mosque will also be a community centre, aimed at strengthening Islamic relations within the city.

When the symptoms of the disease are synonymous with the disease by sheer volume and predictability, it becomes a fair approximation to argue that religion does kill.

Yet the people behind the building of the mosque have been trying for years to strengthen American-Islamic relations. They aren't radical muslims; they do not believe in killing innocent people.

And as with time in consideration, 9/11 compares as in near instantaneous time of deaths compared with the casual reigns of mass murderers like Pol Pot.

Seriously, get a grip on magnitudes - compare mass murders with mass murders of similar size.

Yet this isn't a shrine dedicated to mass murderers. This is a community centre dedicated to Islamic worship, and strengthening relations in the city. Your comparison is a pathetic one.

Near or at, it is close enough. And they have demonstrated no pressing need for it, so why not somewhere else, a few blocks away?

...it *is* a few blocks away.

Your reaction to this is the typical knee-jerk "I don't know what I'm talking about because I haven't done any research on this issue" kind. If you listen to the anti-islam activists like Pat Condell all the time, you won't ever get the full story. They intentionally leave facts out, and make stuff up, because as far as they are concerned, getting rid of Islam is more important than being intellectually honest.