This isn’t the first time there’s been a fuss over the location or size of a religious edifice. This one is making national news because of the location and the religion. It’s their right to build there if they make it through NYC’s permit procedures, but the location is an insensitive, perhaps deliberately so choice. Consider that Islam has a history of converting or rebuilding on sites sacred to other faiths, i.e., Hagia Sophia, Dome of the Rock. The “power” may be in finding a place as close to Ground Zero as possible. I understand pieces of one of the buildings or planes wound up there.

OT: Perseid Meteor Shower tonight!