Islamic Cultural Center/Muslim Mosque near ground Zero

[SanHeChuan]

Should we allow the first amendment to inform our judgment or our prejudice?

There seems to be many issues of late where people are confusing the U.S.A. for a direct democracy, where popular opinion is the highest authority, mob rule. In fact the U.S.A. is a republic where is highest authority is the rule of law.

What does the law say?

Should we change the law because we want to suppress the rights of people who are superficially similar to other people who are ****ing us off?

What is America about freedom or oppression?

[David Jamieson]

I personally think this story is there to gauge the American public's acceptance of continued war on Islam.

If enough people hate having a mosque blocks away from the hole in the ground that was formerly the WTC, then it stands to reason that the military industrial complex of the USA can continue to shoot arabs without having to worry too much about the enemy within.

Not a peep would be said about a synagogue or a church being built, so why is main stream media making this the big issue that it really isn't?

Because it generates revenue to do so and it serves an agenda of imperialist war mongering.

Pretty simple. I mean you can dressit up with all teh academia and arguments you want I guess, but it's just intolerance to not allow it, provocative to allow it and no one will deal with the actual hard questions while they play with stupid games and questions like this.

I call distraction and gauge of acceptance to continue occupation.

[Hebrew Hammer]

Agreed, after having some initial mixed feelings about this, I believe its the right thing to do. President Obama's speech about this was spot on and I applaud him for it. We are at war with Al Queda, not Islam, now if it was an Al Queda cultural center...that would be a different story and an oxymoron. By the way there is already a mosque in the area. We are a nation that guarantees freedom of religion and lets continue to honor that.

[SanHeChuan]

White House Says Politics Not a Factor in Decision to Enter Mosque Debate

Most Americans think the group planning the mosque and Islamic cultural center has the right to build it, according to a Fox News poll released Friday. However, the poll showed that 64 percent think it would be wrong to build it, regardless of whether the developers are within their right to do so.

[David Jamieson]

This just in and quite awesome I might add:

so first, bwahahahahahahahahahaha, and now....

[Drake]

I don't think it is the government's right to weigh in on this. ESPECIALLY not the federal government.

[Hebrew Hammer]

I don't think it is the government's right to weigh in on this. ESPECIALLY not the federal government.

Well, they don't get to decide if that's what you mean, ultimately New Yorkers will decide...but this is a special circumstance because how the country feels about 9/11. There are the 1st Amendment rights to consider. The President and the other Congressmen can weigh in should they choose to.

It would be just as sensitive if the Japanese had tried to build a cultural center and shrine in Pearl Harbor right after WWII. I'm sure there would be some resistance to that as well.

Why don't the Feds get to weigh in?