>>Contemplate a smoking crater?
Isn't that exactly what the Jihadists want? They loved the fruits of Timothy McVeigh's labors.
If they were serious about "Americanizing" Islam - they'd be facilitating the construction of Christian churches, Buddhist temples, Jewish synagogues, Wiccan circles or whatever else - under the lawful protection of the New Secular Free Republic of Saudi Arabia.
If they were serious about "Americanizing" Islam.
Instead, they try to provoke US into discarding our own principles - and a "smoking crater" would be nothing but evidence of their success.
smoking crater? No. There are other ways of handling this - preferably by keeping their monument from being built where it doesn't belong in the first place.
{Applause for the NY Hard-Hats from this Peanut Gallery}