Hey Folks -- When we think "terrorism" is there any other kind but Islamic? When you get your heads around that, you'll begin to understand the reaction of Americans to the mosque cum community centre in New York. Incidentally, just today news came out about Islamic operatives in Ontario and a cell being broken after one year's investigation by the RCMP. Open your eyes and shed your politically correct ideologies. Try looking clearly at the objective facts.
Actually, when I think "terrorist", the first thing that comes into my head is "the Irish". Then the Tamils -- more accurately, the LTTE, as in, the ones who invented the suicide bomb. Or the LRA in Uganda? Or the Klan? Or the ones who make death threats to elected officials and vandalise their homes, places of work, and harass their families because they voted to make it illegal to drop someone from a health insurance policy because they got sick?
Americans think "brown people" as terrorists only because their media is bullshit and they've been fed that crap for 10 years. That and many of them aren't that bright and don't really get around much.
And I detest PC ideology. I say France has balls for banning face coverings in public. I realise that Islamic terrorism is quite real and dangerous, though what scares me more is the feeling that we must "accomodate" everyone just because they have some religion - and I don't care what religion it is.
But the whole Mosque thing wasn't even an issue - no one would have ever cared had it not been Obama. (Read the article, the wing-nuts praised the community centre and weren't too concerned about "sanctity" when they were milking emotions to win political points or to have an affair.) The Americans, especially the right-wingers are in bed with the governments of the countries that train and fund the terrorists! Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc.
Anyhow, I agree with the ADL in that, while the owners of the land have the legel right to put it there, it is wrong in the sense that it will not accomplish that which the project's proponents claim. It will not bring "understanding" or "reconciliation". It will have the opposite effect, just like the Catholic convent next to Auschwitz would have. However, the pope at the time, for all his faults, had the decency to cancel the project and move it further away.