This Mosque will be a tourist attraction to moslems. Tourist attractions bring businesses. Businesses bring residential conversions like lofts and apartments and condos. If you've been to Jerusalem, look outside the Danmascus gate.
This will be a foothold in a part of Manhattan where they previously haven't had a foothold, in addition to being a huge symbol of 9/11 attacks as a victory.
They already have neighborhoods in NJ and the five boroughs. The more they can encroach upon the south and midtown of manhattan, the more they are taking over the heart of the city.
Once deographicwarfare fails in NYC,it will be a target for those who wish to destroy NYC.And they will have no hesitation bringing a nuke in aboard ship right into NYC, and also into block the straights of Hormuz. Ships will be the preliminary conveyance devices for Iranian nukes which will indeed be used as blackmail devices to remove the USA from that region, and to attack the West.
People who poo poo this mosque application think the context is merely NYC, when in fact t is a key component in the war against t he west by the Islamofascist who use our “ religious freedom” gurantee against us.
They deserve little more than $hit on a shingle for their efforts.And NYC is awakening t the fact that it is in danger of becoming Londonistan. Just imagine, strolling the Kazbah next to the UN, getting camel rides around Greewich Village. And visiting the local sharia courts on Saturdays to watch thieves getting their hands chopped off, with the occasional spice of stoning an adulterous woman. I love that religious freedom ( sarc.).
We will never allow it as Americans, and they will want to destroy us,nothing has changed about that.Obama is merely a zit on the face of history, about to be squeezed and excoriated.