If they own the property, they have a right to build it there, period.
The article says that obscenities are banned; however, the middle finger is not banned but regarded as free speech. This is what the upcoming ground zero mosque represents. A giant middle finger to America of how Islam triumphed over us nine years ago.
Would these intellectual cripples trot out the "private property" argument passionately if Osama bin Laden proposed to purchase a North American heaquarters building in New York and called it a mosque?
No reason to pursue the issue beyond that question, regardless of how it is answered.
Government should have kept out of it. Obama should have kept his big mouth shut. And Bloomberg is an actual ADVOCATE for this mosque - so much so - one might wonder if he wasn’t a part of their PR firm.
They’re already praying in this mosque. Is it up to city code?
I am amazed that there are so many individuals on FR who are unable to grasp the simple idea why a Supreme Court Justice once wrote, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
From an email making the rounds: If it is true that the idea of a mosque near Ground Zero is to promote tolerance:
It has been suggested that a gay nightclub be open next door to the mosque.
Two names proposed for the club are;”The Turban Cowboy” & “You Mecca Me Hot”.
On the other side should be a butcher shop specializing in pork.
Across the street, a store that sells and displays ladies lingerie and bikinis on live models.