I think people also need to understand your rights are not absolute and have restrictions.You have the right to free speech but you are restricted such as slander,false accusations,sexual and offensive language in public places such as schools and other buildings,etc.

You have the right to protest but if you are causing others problems such as traffic jams,locking doors in buildings,breaking windows,etc you will be arrested.

You have the right to your religion but it also has restrictions.Churches can only be built in certain areas due to traffic,zoning laws,etc.If your religion is promoting violence including death and destruction(such as Islam)you and your followers can be arrested and thrown in jail if the police believe you are serious in planning a attack.

Just because you have rights that doesn't mean the general public has to put up with your beliefs no matter what they are.There are limits to everything.

I can't help thinking what a shame it is to consider the grounds that someone died on as more hallowed or sacred than any ground on which that person WALKED IN LIFE?

To memorialize a death site seems somehow very morbid, as if that person had nothing else in their life to be memorialized for. Why not memorialize the things that a person stood for?

Create a new law, fund a new wing on a library or hospital, or create a nonprofit foundation in honor of the person, or a website dedicated to the person, write a story about the person or a poem and publish it, - anything else. But to say "this where XX died" does nothing to commemorate or honor the person who is dead.

So what is it really, that people are trying to preserve or protect, with this argument over where this Muslim facility ought to be built?

What exactly is it that people want to commemorate by memorializing this huge radius (the shadows of those towers)? Are we commemorating an act of terrorism or acts of heroism or simply the untimely demise of people?

I suppose if every New yorker just minded his or her own busines and got a life they would have nothing to worry about.Until one day they walked by hundreds of women dressed in head to toe burkas,outside a Mosque two blocks from ground zero with a man preaching America deserved 9/11.

Thanks but no thanks.I would rather prefer saying I was part of a resistance movement that stopped people building Islamic churches two blocks from ground zero and set another blow to Islamic nutjobs who hate America and Israel and want them destroyed.

Hatemongering has never brought anything good and that is what fighting against the Muslim community center is, hatemongering.

If the Muslims did not do 9/11 they shouldn't be held responsible for it.

If every religion of terrorist was restricted we wouldn't even have Christian churches. So we have to be fair. If this community center is a problem then we need to start removing some other churches who had terrorists in their midst.

Are you serious or joking because I can tell the difference?That is one of the weirdest statements I have ever heard in my life.

You erase history by erasing the places and people where events like this happend.I suppose had you been around after the Nazi holocaust in Poland you would want Auschwitz leveled to the ground and a golf course built over it?It's ludicrous.Auschwitz is a powerful memorial to those who died and everyone who goes there feels the pain and has a respect for the dead who had to go through that place.They can walk through the buildings,touch the wood beds where the people used to sleep,see the execution walls with bullet holes in them.

The twin towers were not only the largest terrorist attack in US history it is also one of only two attacks by a enemy of a foreign nation who declared War against us.People need to be reminded of what can happen if we let out guard down and history must not be repeated.

Every site where hundreds of thousands of people died in vain or where murdered should be preserved as a teaching tool and warning to future generations.

screw the mosque they might as well shove a high rise up our *** without crude oil to lube it up first. Whats wrong with New Jersey, hy cant they go there. Gasturds.

tell-um sweety.... jersy is so nice this time of year.

it's more of the fact they don't need a big trophy to their victory there.

That is exactly right.If you look into the history of Islamic warfare you will always find that they built a Mosque at the towns most important or Holy site.I will have to start a topic on that issue along with some history.

Look into the history of any warfare where people of one religion have invaded a people of another and the first thing to be built was a place of worship. Not the best example to use to attempt to prove a point.....but nice spin.

Hate mongering defined..one who arouses hatred for others. I am offended that you think that because we disagree in values that you think I or anyone else hates the muslims. Not once have I said that. Lets be careful on the name calling. I hate Muslims who use their religion to justify the deaths of so many people...like the men who attacked on 9/11. AGAIN, its not about the Muslims, per say its about practicing the same MUSLIM religion that the terrorist boasted as their reasoning so close to where so many HUMANS died.

I agree with one of the other posters in the use of the holocaust. So, basically it would be ok for the germans to put up a church right across from a Jewish community hit the hardest? Thats morally wrong! And BTW my heritage is GERMAN!

Hatemongering is an action not a name.

Hatemongering is the action of making "a people" less in importance than yourself through spreading of misinformation, targeting them as dangerous, striping them of human respect through actions, etc....

Hatemongering is what is happening over this community center two blocks from ground zero.

An action certain people have or don't. Apparently us, for disagreeing with you. Justifying such an outright offensive comment is even more offensive.

If we are going to prevent this "church" because there are terrorists who believe the same religion then we have to do the same for all other religions because terrorists believe those too.

Its not just about the same religion it is about the terrorist BOASTING that they were doing it because of their religion. HUGE difference.

BTW.... LOVE how once again, you skirt an issue when you have no REASONABLE answer (hatemongering).

I wish religious people would get their own planet....

No reasonable answer? I know you are joking there.

Anyway, again if we are going to start limiting churches who have terrorist who believe in their religion then we have to start with the Christians and work our way through the list.

There are terrorists who are Christian too.

thats how hypocritical haters work... always trying to turn it around.
lets not worry about how much the muslims hate us, just be nice and give them flowers while they plot like cowards to end the US.

actually, you just proved it for him - thank you.