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[kandrathe]

You seem to be under the impression that by definition this mosque/cultural center is a celebration of terrorism.

I'm allowing that there are a large group of people who are hyper-sensitive to an atrocity. Ok, how about adding a strip club, or a gun range across the street from a battered woman's shelter? We use zoning laws all the time to prevent social disharmony, even though for all other reasons there is nothing illegal about the business.

Your examples consistently conflate terrorism with Muslims and Islam as if they are intrinsically the same thing.

They are not the same. It would be the same problem if 911 were perpetrated by a rogue band of Chechen terrorists, and if a Chechen group wanted to build a Chechen community center. Not these Chechen's... These are peaceful Chechen's.

What I'm saying is, "Let's look at it from the victims point of view." The law is rational, and it clearly gives them the right to build. The people of NYC have feelings, and their victimization gives them perhaps an irrational emotional response.

It would be prejudiced to say that building a mosque here would attract Islamic terrorist violence to the neighborhood. It is not prejudiced to say that NYC's residents have a right to their feelings. The law can cram it down their throats, but I'm questioning the wisdom in doing that.