Obama supports Ground Zero mosque. Religious freedom or is he being too PC?

As I understand it the proposal is to build an Islamic centre at least 2 blocks from Ground Zero and I think that there's a mosque nearby already.The property is vacant and owned by the people who want to build the Islamic centre, the zoning rules allow it and there is no legal reason to stop it.The people behind it are not radical Islamists or Al Quaeda supporters.This really seems a no-brainer. I don't see how the government can intervene without some infringement of liberty and without creating the potential for further infringements. Should we then start to demand the removal of Churches close to the sites of atrocities carried out by anyone who was even nominally a Christian ?

Didn't General Petraeus say much the same about the burning of the Koran ?Islamist terrorists push the notion that the U.S. is at war with Islam. It's a recruiting tool for them. Why help the terrorists ?

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Pretty good point. I just got the feeling it was threat like. I mean we shouldn't let them build the Mosque out of fear of being attack. That's just bullshit. That will never be a reason to let them build it. Why mention it?

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I think that it's quite reasonable to point out that the campaign against the centre is counter-productive and likely to encourage the terrorists.

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Muslims get to build Mosques in the US because of our constitution and nothing more. Don't extremists hate freedom of religion? Kind of doesn't make sense.

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Religious extremists - Christian extremists as well as Muslims - all think that they should be free to practice THEIR religion.