There are all sorts of reprehensible groups that have public buildings: scientologists, loan sharking payroll loan agencies, thieving bogus fortune tellers, larcenous casinos and car tow lots, not to mention Chase, the Bank of America, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and the rest of them. I do not see how the possibility that someone might go ape and attack this mosque is a justification for prohibiting it. The Saudi government sees its main mission to be the care and protection of Islam. The US government sees one of its main mission (if not THE main mission) to be the protection of private property. Religion is also something our government has always protected, with very few exceptions through the years.
Personally, I could care less whether there is a mosque in near Ground Zero or anywhere in Manhattan.I just do not see how it could be prevented by any legal means. Islam is not my idea of an ideal religion because of its intolerance and its fanaticism. But there is no law against either in this country, and I do not see how any law against either could be constitutional. I think that it would be better for all concerned if they would move this project uptown twenty blocks or so, or across the water in Queens or Brooklyn. With the subway system of NYC, it hardly is important that it be where they are planning to put it. So about all that those who oppose it could do is what they are doing: to beseech those who want the mosque there to move it.
