*Do you realize that many attempts, including resent attacks, are still ongoing. If the Iran leader wasn't allowed at grown zero to spread his fake symbol, don't these politicians realize the attack came from 'smaller' people came from withing American but funded from their homeland? Think! funds come from within and outside the USA just like the resent elections.  Personal opinions ask why the islamic are getting an over-stated support such as extra time off for prayer and foot-baths when other religious icons don't get that same respect! Are they whining far more than American's do to get their way? Maybe all religions should start doing what the Islamic and Muslim do to cover this country, whine and demand the rest of the USA in order to do what the intent of the forefathers created this country and made it as it is.. a country that is equal to all and not specific religions that can spit on others. Stand up people and demand equality!! Get that Tea Party going! Sarah Palin and other icons should lead those that only follow!

NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin has made the Ground Zero mosque famous in "red America" with her tweets to New Yorkers, asking them to stop its-construction near the site where some 3,000 victims died horribly on9/11 at the hands of Islamic terrorists. But here in the city where it happened we've been wrestling with this issue for a while.

This is a place that is sacred ground to millions of Americans, but most principally to the loved ones of the victims -- wives, parents,children, friends -- who haven't let the passage of nearly 10 years diminish the memory of that infernal day and of the cruel sight of bodies falling from the sky.

Adding to the pain, for some, are plans to place in the same neighborhood a 15-story mega-mosque and Islamic community center. Its size, its location, and its very name -- the Cordoba House, so named after Cordoba, Spain,the capital of Muslim conquerors -- conjures up Islamicists' dreams of triumphalism. To an array of critics, the very idea is offensive; its construction would be a desecration. These were the feelings that Sarah Palin attempted to tap into, and she directed her appeal to moderate American Muslims, and their supporters.

Tweeting from her BlackBerry, Palin implored, "Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate." She likely meant "repudiate."

Bloggers went crazy. We had fun with Palin's misspellings and her flip excuse that Shakespeare also coined words. And her critics pounced.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who supports the construction of the mosque, led the counter-response. "Sarah Palin has a right to hero pinions, but I could not disagree more. Everything the United States stands for and New York stands for is tolerance and openness." He also said that Palin is "not racist, just for the record," a reference to a comment by one of his aides, who reportedly tweeted that "@SarahPalinUSAwhose hearts? Racist hearts?"

The issue came before the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission this week, which has yet to make a decision. And a big decision it is. At its heart is a disagreement between two sincere camps that harbor different views of what makes America strong.

On the one side are those who believe the United States closed its eyes for too long to the very real threat of global Islamic radicalism and the murderous attacks that Muslim terrorists perpetrate around the world. Why should we pretend that we could ever find common ground with such people or be allies to nations that export such ideology while they prevent the construction of a single temple or church on their own lands, while they send mullahs, mosques and hate-filled textbooks to ours?

On the other hand are those who believe that America's very strength is that we welcome all faiths and creeds and peoples; that, yes, you can build a mosque -- many mosques -- in New York, even near the site of a terrorist tragedy and that this doesn't weaken our resolve or our image in the world. It strengthens them.

Whatever side you're on, it's fitting that the fight over the proposed Cordoba mosque is happening here. It goes to the root of so much that defines New York City: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, politics,assembly, beliefs, and freedom to be a jerk, insensitive, greedy,stupid, intolerant and silly.

Inevitably -- and before Sarah Palin weighed in -- it had become a line in the sand between New York Democrats and their Republican opponents:Mike Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo, the likely next governor of the state,vs. GOP gubernatorial candidates Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino. As Bloomberg said on Thursday, neither of those guys has a prayer of winning, so they hold little sway over New Yorkers.

Aside from politics, the fight over the Ground Zero mosque and proposed mosques in Brooklyn and Staten Island (the smallest and least media-savvy of New York City boroughs) have drawn out "real people" --ordinary folks who live in those neighborhoods -- to school auditoriums and town halls to scream and shout at one another, no one listening to anyone else, just as it happened on Monday at a raucous Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing.

For better or worse, these everyday Americans voicing ferocious opposition to the mosque are making a dent.

On Thursday, the board of trustees of a Roman Catholic church on Staten Island,whose members include Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, rejected a proposal to sell a vacant convent to a Muslim group that planned to use it as a mosque. The vote ended a vitriolic three-month fight. That other mosque construction plans across the country have faced similar opposition speaks to the fierce fears of terrorism among many Americans and itslink to Islam extremists.

Why would the American Muslim leader Feisal Abdul Rauf choose a site near Ground Zero to build a 15-story community center for Muslims? New York City has dozens of mosques which apparently are getting along fine in their neighborhoods. Why go to the very place that Americans most associate with Islamic terrorism?

Supporters of the mosque argue that there are several thousand Muslims in New York City and they need a place to pray and are within their rights to seek any space that suits them. Actually, it's not at all clear that there are thousands -- or even hundreds -- of Muslims living and working in the Lower Downtown area of Manhattan, near the pit of Ground Zero. But it doesn't really matter. Freedom of worship, assembly and speech -- the First Amendment -- is not negotiable. It is not ultimately a matter for planning boards and preservation commissions. It is our right, our inalienable right, as Americans, Christian or Muslim,native-born, or immigrant, Jew or secular citizen.

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Right Wing: Mosque at Ground Zero is a "Slap in the Face"

This Week in Conservative Media

Plans for the construction of a mosque just two blocks from GroundZero are prompting outrage in the blogosphere, but the emotional reaction appears to falling on deaf ears.  The Cordoba House project,according to CNN, calls for a 15-story community center that would include a performance-art center, gym, swimming pool, and a mosque. So far there seems little indication the city will do anything to appease those opposed to it.

"The time for a center like this has come because Islam is an American religion," Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, told CNN. "We need to take the 9/11 tragedy and turn it into some thing very positive.” According to the New York Daily News, Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf,who helped found the Cordoba Initiative following the 9/11 attacks,said the project is intended to foster better relations between the Westand Muslims, but if conservative commentators are any indication of there action, the mosque is opening, not healing, old wounds. 

According to the American Thinker’s Ethel C. Fenig, “ Placing the center close to the site of the late World Trade Center will not promote healing and as for promoting a ‘better understanding of their religion’it would certainly be a constant reminder of the evil its capable of.”

Ruthfully Yours blogger Madeline Brooks calls it “a slap in the face.”Like many opponents to the mosque, she brings up building-permit issues, an effort that feels like a desperate measure to stop in the inevitable. “Still another unsettling part of Rauf’s problem mosque is why the city has given the building a pass. Records for the Department of Buildings have shown numerous complaints for illegal construction and no access, yet the issues were listed as “resolved.”  The recent Times Square bombing attempt is also brought up as a reason for Mayor Bloomberg to stop to the mosque from being built. “If not, he will be helping to provide a handy meeting place for future terrorists, those who understand Imam Rauf’s real message: Speak sweetly, appear to be a well-adjusted member of American society, and plan the destruction of America, either with bombs or ‘peaceful’ undermining.”

But the plans for the mosque have been apparent for months, if not longer, and the complaints have had little influence. Last year World Net Daily’s Chelsea Schilling collected reader responses when news of the mosque was first unveiled. The protest? Sound and fury, signifying nothing—so far. “Who wants to bet this place becomes a"tourist attraction" for Muslims? This mosque will become one of Islam's holiest shrines as it sits upon the site of their greatest modern military victory,” wrote one. Another reader, seeming depressed by it all, simply added: “Good idea. Maybe terrorists will be less likely to bomb this area if there's a mosque there."

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From CAIR, “Ask NY Landmark Commission to Defend Religious Freedom”

The Landmark commission notice. (click notice for larger print)This will be over at 10 AM, if not before. They are shoving this through.

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And from CAIR, their usually propaganda regarding the Landmark Commission and the Burlington Coat Factory:

Action: Ask NY Commission to Defend Religious Freedom
Urge board of the Landmarks Preservation Commission to reject attempt to block construction of Islamic community center