Yes it is. That's all this is about.
It's about building a victory monument as they always do after a successful attack.
Right. A "monument" that won't even be visible from the sight of the attack.
It's about it being a headquarters for more attacks.
LOL. Do you really think the terrorists are stupid enough to make a high profile place like that their headquarters?
It's about having a mosque only 5 blocks away already.
Right. So by your logic, there's already a headquarters for terrorists 5 blocks away. How does refusal to build this one enhance our security?
It has NOTHING to do with feelings and everything to do with defense and not surrendering.
Defense? LOL. Okay, please explain how preventing this mosque will enhance our national defense.
You are a lefty economics professor from a liberal state. Of course you'd think it's about feelings. For liberals, everything is about feelings. For a conservative, it's about facts, logic and history. Go pedal your lefty drivel elsewhere. Got it? I'm not buying.
Right. A "monument" that won't even be visible from the sight of the attack.
The imam has published a book about his planned mosque, What's Right with Islam: a New Vision for Muslims and the West (HarperCollins, 2004), reissued in an "Indonesian language edition" (Wikipedia) in 2007, titled Seruan Azan Dari Puing WTC: Dakwah Islam di Jantung Amerika Pasca 9/11, which translates as A Call to Prayer from the WTC Rubble: Islamic Dawah from the Heart of America Post 911.
Dawah means "missionary work" for Islam. That would include shari'a law, which is directly contradictory to much of our Constitution, despite their claims.