What’s wrong with what Newt said?
“This happens all the time in America. Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There’s no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.”
Not a damn thing wrong with this statement.
I am not sure if those rights have been tested.
What about the new place that the mosque is moved to?
Do the people living in that community have right to object? Were they not hurt just as much as anyone else on 9/11? What about community where lots of kids are serving in armed forces and that community is losting its sons and daughters?
What about someone who tries to build a church or synagogue in heavy muslim areas of Michigan? Can they on the grounds of mid-east conflict claim offense and demand certain arbitrary distance to move them?
If politicians didn’t make it a big issue that is has become, then community could have solved it amongst themselves, and if people were genuinely outraged, then that city-council would have been voted out.
Now that is HAS become a flash point, to me it is rights issue now.