re: #77 tradewind

You don’t have to be a Spencer-Geller freak to know that this is an abomination.
It’s a burial ground, for pete’s sake. There are body parts scattered for blocks that are part of the earth there now. Would the Japanese be allowed to place a shrine to Hirohito on the grounds of the USS Arizona memorial? Then again, they wouldn’t be that insensitive.
This board does not have approval authority, and let’s hope that their vote means zero.

Truly lame analogy. Islam is not a nation, it is a religion. Pearl Harbor was a military target, The WTC was not. You also seem to assume that every Muslim in the world supported the attack, which is also not the case.

The name of center should not be lost on us either, Cordoba was a city under the Moors that was very advanced for its age in its tolerance of various cultures and religions.