We know Obama is going to make a Sept 11 speech. Its been 9 years and his attempts to connect in Cairo are kind of faltering. Using that platform to explain the greatness of America would be an IDEAL opportunity. Find a speaking place where one can see both the Ground Zero and the Burlington Coat Factory and perhaps the new gay bar going in next door, that would truly bring the specialness of America and New York! together.

Although Obama hasn't made a statement, the State Department has been pushing the story about building the community center, and has Mayor Bloomberg's masterful address on the issue translated in Arabic and Persian on its website.

Sadly, I don't think there's much Obama can do to convince Americans about the obvious merits of the mosque, and it would just be a waste of political capital and a huge distraction coming into the midterms. It just doesn't seem worth it. But it's clear where the administration stands.

America refuses to absorb the fact that Islamism is the negative of America, and that Islamism has caused more American deaths since Vietnam. So let the Mosque be built, and let the Islamists teach America and especially Jewish America what America will look like under Islamist rule.
Hint: Iraq

Good argument ARVAY, and as a 15-year (and counting) veteran American Service Member who is old enough to have played an important part in both the pre-9/11 and post-9/11 America's effort to understand its Muslim population, I think that we need to realize the difference between our rights and doing what's right.
9/11 is indelibly etched on the hearts and minds of Americans regardless of their religion. Building a masjid or a Muslim-run communty center so near to ground zero is a step in the wrong direction.

Your Tax Dollar Sends Iman Feisal on World Tour!

Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Cordoba initiative’s founder is being sent by Hillary Clinton of the U.S. State Department on your tax dollar around the world! On your tax dollar! If you think this is wrong visit ACLJ. org and take a stand against your tax dollar funding Fiesal's world tour. Fiesal will not call Humas a terrorist group, United States Law calls Humas a terrorist group. Again stand up for your rights, visit ACLJ.org and stand against the Cordoba initiative’s founder, Feisal Abdul Rauf and his world tour paid for at your expense.

Another 9/11 mosque? . . .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10911542

I don't think Obama could give a more eloquent speech than the one Mayor Bloomberg delivered in defense of religious freedom.
Beck, Limbaugh et al are DYING for Obama to open his mouth on this issue so they can then accuse him of being a Muslim/Arab/Terrorist sympathizer.
Legally, there is nothing that opponents of the Islamic center can do to stop its construction. The constitution is very unambiguous about religious freedom and no challenge would stand up in any court.

Whether America is arming Israel to the teeth or whether the UN Charter recognises the right of a population under foreign military occupation to resist and fight, or whether Synagogues and Churches are not being allowed to be built in other countries, it has nothing to do with walking the high ground and realizing that building an Islamic cultural center or Muslim Community center so close to ground zero is just not right. Time heals all, and some wounds take longer to heal than others. Yes, how far does "hallowed ground" extend in downtown (I have never been there) NY or how far would be far enough is hard to determine in an increasingly xenophobic American society right now. American Muslims should walk the high ground and either find another place to build this community center or donate their money to a cause that will help build bridges without hurting feelings.

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