Should a Mosque Be Built Near Ground Zero?

By U.S. News Staff

August 3, 2010 RSS Feed Print

A building near the World Trade Center site was denied landmark status on Tuesday by a New York City panel, which now allows construction of a mosque and an Islamic community center in its place. Conservative critics, along with some family members of victims of the September 11 attacks, as well as first-responders, are calling the location insensitive, but the vote was applauded by the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union, citing religious freedom. One opponent held a sign reading, "Don't glorify murder of 3,000. No 9/11 victory mosque."

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I will hold that you cannot be a christian and be a democrat, no more than you can be tolerant of other religions and be a Muslim. It ain't possible on either level. This is a victor celebration for Islam it is not about building a bridge to anything. Any bridge built by Jihadists, aka Muslims, is not a bridge I would drive my car across. If we ever needed proof of where Obama's loyalites lie, I think we found out Saturday evening.

djm159 of FL 8:35PM August 15, 2010

Nothing you said invalidates the freedom of a church to build wherever it wants to. In fact, none of your examples of "diversity and multiculturalism" have ANYTHING to do with builidng a church. In fact, I'm not sure what your "examples" have to do with anything except your own personal biases and prejudices. How can you restrict someone else's religious freedom without restricting your own? If you single out their fairy tale for descrimination, I can single out your fairy tale for descrimination. Could we prevent a christian church from being built near the site of the Oklahoma Federal building because the terrorist who blew it up was a Christian? Should we prevent Christian churches from building near Synagogues because Hitler was a Christian? Why is it that the right wing, which uses "freedom" as it's primary slogan and wraps itself in patriotism, so willing to take our freedom away? Why do you seem to think that the culture of christian, white people is so superior that we must restrict freedom to somehow preserve it?

sam of TX 1:37PM August 13, 2010

Some Americans has suddenly decided hateful religious bigotry should take precedent over the Constitution.
Narrow-minded twits are at war with our Constitution - They want to ignore the most basic rights, like the 1st Amendment. They want to reverse the outcome of the Civil War and dump the 14th Amendment.
We live in a secular country to allows any religion to do its thing, especially on private property. If you don't like it - leave.

Lucile of OH 11:34PM August 12, 2010

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