Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone View Post
Show me a mosque closer to Ground Zero, and show me that it was constructed after 9/11/01. Until then, be as dismissive as you want, they weren't your friends that died in there.
Taken from Lemur's post on the first page:
Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
Couple of thoughts: 2 blocks away is not "adjacent."

Unless I'm mistaken, there are already mosques closer than the part-time one being proposed.
True, I cannot prove they were constructed after 9/11.

Maybe I'm being harsh, but having a loved one die in 9/11 does not give one free reign to irrationality. Terrorists committed the attacks. To impose penalty on every other member of the broad umbrella of Islam is absurd and spiteful. Do they feel agony every time they see a Muslim, or a mosque? Does it bite at them that Islam is allowed to be practiced, because of the actions of people a world away who bear nearly no similarity at all to those living in the states? Are Muslims in the United States not allowed to be involved in the 9/11 discussion? Do you think American muslims cheered when they witnessed the events? Do you think the relished the idea that people would suddenly treat them differently from then on, because of the actions of lunatics who's relation is in title only? 9/11 hurt Muslims too, and it is entirely within their dignity to share in the remembrance.