thoughts?

[a_white_rain]

Mosque to be built on Ground Zero.I hesitantly approve. I love the symbolism here. And it's one way that New Yorkers and USAmericans on a non governmental level to show that at least some of us are trying to build bridges. And, of course, a new place for Muslim New Yorkers to gather and build a community - and fuck if that isn't a beautiful

Comments

[neocloud9]

I like it.

[ellenel13]

I want something to be built there, but I'd prefer if it didn't have any religious affiliations.

I'm not a New Yorker but I live ten minutes away when there's good traffic. I pass by Ground Zero all the time. It's painful to see it empty still.

[a_white_rain]

Why is it still empty? :( *is too lazy to look up politics*

[ellenel13]

I don't know. Every time someone plans to build something there it falls through because no one wants to spend the money.

Ive thought about writing to Obama about it a few times but he gets like thousands of letters a day. I still really wish we could build something there but I do not want it to be a religious building of any kind.

[a_white_rain]

You could get lucky! He does read ten letters a day.

[a2zmom]

Would the mosque be part of a larger collection of buildings? because then I approve.

[a_white_rain]

I think so, yes!

[pseudo_tsuga]

I tentatively approve. Though some of the comments on the ontd_p post about are horrible.

[a_white_rain]

Oh ontd_p. :(

[kita0610]

I have mixed feelings, although I'm in touch with my own internal bullshit enough to know it might be because of that.

[a_white_rain]

Yeah, I can get that. I guess I just want it to stop being empty the most.