<p>Well, common sense should tell you that it’s an American right to build a house of worship or practice religion at any location. It’s not even ON ground zero. Seriously, if people are going to start a feud over this, are Muslims going to be allowed to work at the new towers? Are there Muslim construction workers? Surely there will be.</p>
<p>Really, it’s just plain ignorance and intolerance that is preventing a mosque from being built. It’s not a preposterous idea; there is a large proportion of Muslims living in NYC. It’s not a random or irrevelant idea.</p>
<p>And its a bad idea too. This certainley does nothing to show that they have any respect at all for the tragidies that happened during 9/11.</p>
<p>[Mayor</a> Bloomberg’s Ground Zero Mosque Speech [VIDEO]](<a href=“AOL - News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com”>AOL - News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com)</p>
<p>I just watched this for homework. I was kinda indifferent and saw valid points on both sides, but now I’m all for it! Impressive speech I thought.</p>
<p>So, are all Muslims supposed to take responsibility for the followers of their faith who are terrorists or are responsible for 9/11?</p>
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<p>Why not? It would be a great way to show how the wounds of the war have healed. But I wouldn’t have tried to do it in 1950.</p>
<p>No, but they should have some respect for those who died. Period. And i am sure lots of them do, but not the imman who is building this.</p>
<p>^^^ No, of course not. But it might be kind for them to not exercise their rights in this case in order to show respect for the families of those who died on 9/11.</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t think they are doing this in disrespect for anyone or anything. They shouldn’t have to give up their rights in order to please certain members of the public.</p>
<p>they shouldnt be forced to. but they should move it on their own.</p>
<p>I can’t believe people are both that ignorant and insensitive to think that muslims should have the mosque elsewhere. 9/11 was a terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda not muslims just as the holocaust was perpetrated by nazi soldiers not Germans the sooner people realize that the better this country will be.</p>
<p>the ones against the mosque insensitive? You are out of touch with the majority of the American people, who disagree with it.</p>
<p>but their is nothing the goverment can do about it, i totally agree if we forced it to stop it, that would violate the constutution.</p>
<p>Being against the mosque is very insensitive to all Muslims. It’s perpetrating them to be behind the attacks. Just because the terrorists were Islamic Extremists doesn’t mean that other Muslims are responsible or have debts to society.</p>
<p>"Being against the mosque is very insensitive to all Muslims. "</p>
<p>Oversimplified to make your point.</p>
<p>Do the people of lower manhattan also get offended when Muslims walk by Ground Zero? Are they being insensitive then too? When does it stop? The outcry seems arbitrary, ridiculously so in fact. 1.5 billion people should not have to accommodate the bigoted xenophobia of the American people, nor should they have to pay the price for the evil actions of a few men that are by most Muslims considered non-Muslims [though many ignorant people are blind to the difference between being Muslim and being a radical Islamic extremist].</p>
<p>What exactly is the point of this Islamic community center?</p>
<p>There are tons of other mosques in the area.</p>
<p>What exactly is the point of a Burlington Coat Factory?</p>
<p>Irrelevant. Of course you couldn’t answer the real question. I asked it because I want to know why this particular mosque is so important.</p>
<p>It’s “important” because people are making a big deal about it. The point is that it should not be important that it is being built.</p>
<p>Well it’s important now because people don’t want it to be built. Why does the reasoning behind Americans’ opposition matter? The fact of the matter is that people do not want it built, so it shouldn’t be.</p>