That’s what we do, make and move money. That’s the way that area of NYC has been since the Dutch traded shares under the Buttonwood trees. That’s what a significant portion of the people that died that day did for a living. Were they greedy too? You want the world financial capital relocated to the Arab Emirates? Turn Lower Manhattan into a park and Osama wins.
There was a terrorist attack on Wall Street in 1920 that killed 20 people. You can still see the blast marks on the walls at 23 Wall Street if your ever in the area.
Fraunces Tavern on Pearl Street was blown up by Puerto Rican terrorists in 1975. They killed 4 people.
We honor the dead by continuing on.
That's the contradiction. If we "continue on" as the US, the mosque can be built, just as much as a synogogue or church could be built. You can't have it both ways.
It's a shame restrictions hadn't been put on what could be built in a decided-upon radius from the site before this came up.