The issue is Property Rights.
If the issue was property rights, he would have called the Mosque opponent thieves and robbers.
Instead he called them bigots. Which means at least for him, it isn’t about supporting property rights, it’s about fighting anti-islamic sentiments.
I have not heard anyone argue that the owners of the property have no right to build a mosque, assuming such a use is approved through normal channels by the local planning and zoning commission.
I certainly wouldn’t dispute that right. The issue is that Muslims should be more sensitive to what happened in the area and how it has affected the families and friends of the victims, the responders and many Americans.
The Inman says he wants to reach out to Americans. Slapping us in the face with a victory mosque is not the way to reach out. We have nothing to prove to Islam, muslims live and worship without harrassment every day in this country.
Islam is the entity with something to prove. Muslims need to show us that AQ, the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah and the other groups that sow terror are not following the precepts of Islam, are shunned and thrown out of Islam.