Another Opinion of "The Mosque"

I don’t believe that anyone is actually objecting to the construction of an Islamic Center in New York City. What I believe what people are objecting to is the construction of a monument to one of the major causes of the events on 9/11.

Imagine if a Neo-Nazi group wanted to build a Hitler Youth Center across the street from Dachau. They’re not “Nazis” in the 1930s-1940s sense; they just want a place to play basketball. Would anyone object? You betcha! The idea of building a monument in any sense to the terror the Nazis rained down upon the world is unthinkable. The idea that one would be built near any spot where so many died in the name of their ideology is unimaginable. So why is it that there are people who are not affronted by the idea of building a gorgeous, gleaming 13 story tower dedicated to an ideology that brands all non-Muslims as infidels; that to this day, kills people for “spreading Christianity” in Islamic countries, and, to top it off, placing that monument near the site where over 3000 people died in the name of that ideology?

A while back, my family drove to Wallingford CT to protest at a neo-Nazi rally. Some right-wing lunatic was speaking at the library there and hundreds of people showed up to let him and his supporters know they were unwanted. No one stopped him from speaking though; in the U.S. this was his right. No one is objecting to the construction of an Islamic Cultural Center either. We may not agree with the extremist fringe of Islamic ideology but no one is saying “you have no right to be Muslim”; just not here where the sight of such a monument is painful and inappropriate.