Good news.
At risk of inflaming some...
Remember the 1st Amendment. Freedom of religion. You want to practice an unpopular religion, fine. This nation exists because people came here to practice, in safety, what they were being killed for elsewhere (and is now mainstream). Want a building devoted thereto? Fine, build it in good faith. Yeah there’s a lot of mosques on Manhattan; ok to build another in the same spirit of following the fair rules. (Hey, how about that synagogue in Saudi Arabia?)
But don’t build what is an obvious symbol of conquest. That’s not about religion, that’s about domestic enemies - and the Constitution has much to say about that too.
Dislike Islam? Fine. Beat it with our principles of natural rights, not despite them.
Stopping the building of the mosque there is good news.
Fair game if they want to build one where it’s about religion, not conquest.
“I dislike what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Be very careful how you approach this, lest your methods be turned against you.
Of course, if they go ahead with this symbol of conquest, we can discern the difference between freedom of religion and domestic enemies.
I understand what you’re saying, but there is a proper response.
Step one is to publicize what they are doing it, who is leading it, how they are funding it, and who on the American side has backed it.
If someone wanted to build a 13 story catholic cathedral or evangelical megachurch on that site, there would be nothing wrong about asking those questions and publicizing those answers.
If you’ve been involved in building or expanding any church in Any City USA in recent years you’ve seen how they can use zoning and approval rules to make life very difficult for anyone building a church. They’ll use any argument, traffic patterns, whatever, to kill a church project. In reality there is just a lot of anti-church sentiment out there, and plus there are tax issues; they’d far rather see a shopping mall.
But this one has been waved right through; I can’t help but wonder if the city fathers would have been so quick to approve a megachurch on the same site or if they would have instead complained about parking and traffic and proper use of the site ad infinitum.
Freedom of religion. You want to practice an unpopular religion, fine.
Wait, stop. Islam is an evil religion not unpopular but evil and very illegal. The things they do to women are totally illegal and worse.
We didn’t let the Mormons get away with their crap and we must not let the moslems get away with theirs.
THE Edmunds–Tucker Act
The act disincorporated both the LDS Church and the Perpetual Emigration Fund on the grounds that they fostered polygamy
And islam is 10x worse than anything the Mormons did