re: #170 thelacritic

$100 million is “doodleysquat” especially in this current economy? I see the size of investment relative to other Islamic mosques. Why is it so important to build it there, even if they are 100% entitled to build it there especially if it’s a sizable amount of money. I’d like to think there are a lot better ways to put $100 million towards. Why is this building especially before the controversy? Maybe it is a way to bring the Muslim community closer into mainstream culture. But if dimwit is spending an extraordinary amount of money it stands to reason there must also be an extraordinary reason. You can infer good or bad from that. I asked a question to bring more facts into the debate and you suddenly get offended about trolls and sock puppets. Why so sensitive?

You do realize that NYC is a large, densely-populated place? That hundreds of thousands of people live within 1/2 a mile of this site, and more than a million commuters work within that radius.

If 1/10 of 1% of those people are observant muslims, they’ll more than fill the prayer space at every single service.