[BelegStrongbow]

This has been all over FaceBook. There are probably twenty petitions begin circulated and they’re all tremendously popular.

[NonValueAdded]

Oh, they are well aware of it and HAVE addressed it in their remarks. Notice how the _resident was careful to say "... includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan." You see, Port Authority land is involved in the St. Nicholas rebuilding. Hence the carefully couched remarks.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I would question the motives too . . .but I already know them

They’re called PC pandering and cowardice

[marron]

These days trying to build any church in an urban setting is increasingly difficult to impossible. They’ll drive you crazy, the planners and city councilmen, and local community “leaders”.

Which again is what makes this so surprising, that while you can’t get permission to build a church, even one that was already there, the mosque gets hand-waved right on through in nothing flat.

My understanding is that there is already a mosque a couple of blocks away. They don’t want another mosque, they want a monument and they want it specifically in Ground Zero.