Legally, assuming the property is owned by the Mosque people, I guess they have every right to build it. This does not mean they should build it, though.
I think of it this way, say my friend’s mom recently died in a horrible accident. When I saw him, free speech says that I have every right make this comment, “Well, you have nothing to do on mother’s day this year because your mom just died!! Ha!” The point is, free speech protects my right to say that asinine comment but, common sense, respect for the situation, and human decency says, I would be an ass for making it in the first place. And, to take this even further, I seriously doubt anyone would stand up and defend my right to make that comment. Most likely, they would trash my boorish behavior and leave the room.
Bottom Line: no one says that the Mosque wouldn’t be legal if built. What we’re saying is that the people building it are being ass holes, insensitive, and provocative for doing it. It’s not even built yet and it’s already divisive and painful. It’s very clear this structure will be the target of vandalism and other controversy’s. The Islams will then use these incidents to play the Islamophobic card. Wow, that’ll be helpful to the healing process. On the flip side, some very controversial Imam’s will be called in to give hate speeches which will grate on America’s nerves. Again, that’ll soothe the tensions 9/11 caused. This is not rocket science. This is what will happen. Building it is a huge mistake for everyone: Muslims and Non-muslims alike.
President Obama strikes me as a man who has a huge chip on his shoulder. He obviously loves taking digs at the very people who put him in office. At the very least he should have said nothing. I can’t wait to throw his entire crew out of office. For one, he obviously never took basic economics in high school. For two, he really doesn’t like the US of A in any way that I can understand.
“Bottom Line: no one says that the Mosque wouldn’t be legal if built.”
I made a lengthy post on another thread about this topic. It was about what constitutes protected religion in this country. I think a case could be made that Islam, although recognized as “one of the world’s three great religions,” is actually a tyrannical political system masquerading as a religion. Not sure if you were around when Waco happened. Some things cannot (or at least the govt. THOUGHT they could not) be tolerated just because they are part of someone’s “religion,” hence the tanks and conflagration at Waco. I guess I’m asking when Islam ceases to be a religion and becomes viewed as a terroristic group? What keeps a group like the Black Panthers or Weather Underground from proclaiming itself a “religion”?
I lived in the Middle East, surrounded by mosques and the unrelenting five daily calls to prayer. Do we really want the American landscape, from coast to coast, to be dotted with mosques, minnarets, and the 5 daily wailings that essentially purport “convert or die”? Once they cover America as fully as your typical Holiday Inns, they will be impossible to remove.