I haven't really watched the news in a while, but I was pretty much floored (hard to do on a treadmill) when I saw that a Mosque has actually been approved to be built in the vicinity of Ground Zero.
Seriously?
Now I've reviewed the arguments that argue for building the Mosque. The usual "this is America" and "land of the free", and "freedom of religion", and the "oh so Timothy McVeigh was a Christian, should we not build churches..." and BLAH BLAH BLAH.
The bottom line is this. Islam is a violent belief structure. They believe that if you're a non-believer, you either need to convert or die.
Uh oh! Here comes the "Oh, but what about the Crusades" or "What about the Inquisition?". Yeah, that was in the Middle ages. Christianity is no longer a belief structure of violence, and even the base idea of it is that Christians accept all manners of thoughts and beliefs (except you f**king Scientologists). Islam is STILL practicing a method of violence in their belief structure. Last time I checked, we don't have a Christian equivalent of "fatwa".
So now the claim is that this Mosque will "bridge the gap" between religions. Yeah, because building a religious temple at the site which was destroyed by ALL extremists from that religion will cure the disagreement that has been going on for thousands of years.
Sure. Way to go New York City. Nice to know even you "hard asses" would bend over and take it like that.