It's not at "ground zero" - it's 2 blocks away. n/t

[rucky]

EOM

[shraby]

Make that 2 city blocks.

[rucky]

3. What's the distinction between a city block and a regular block?

[Skidmore]

18. If you don't know, I'll assume you've lived in one type of population center

and never have been in the other. Or you believe all Muslims are evil.

[Kat45]

24. City blocks are larger, quite a distance down each side.

Walking two blocks in a city is not a quick walk (particularly in a city the size of NYC).

[pinboy3niner]

26. Of course, to Sarah Palin the site is mere 'steps' away, LOL!

I'm waiting to see one of our New Yorkers actually count the number of steps and post it here...

[Posteritatis]

1. "Ground Zero" is gradually being redefined as "Sol's gravity well." (nt)

[still_one]

2. shhh, that would ruin the hate propaganda that mostly repukes are trying to incite

The Democrats should defend the Constitution, and make republicans hang out to dry for this deliberate attempt to spread hate and prejudice between Muslims and non-Muslims

[rucky]

4. I'm pretty sure most of the country and many on DU think it's the WTC site.

[still_one]

5. Of course, because that is what the so-called media has been telling them /nt

[Duckhunter935]

6. close enough

that part of the plane damaged the building

[alarimer]

7. Also "ground zero" is not "sacred ground" whatever the hell that might be.

After all they are planning to build another obscene sky-scraper on it, so, really, how sacred is that? Commerce apparently is sacred (duh!) but some cultural center TWO ENTIRE BLOCKS away is somehow in violation of the sanctity of this particular patch of ground? There are numerous nightclubs in the area as well. Am I supposed to believe these are not a violation of that "sacred ground" while a mosque somehow is? This whole thing is just so much bullshit.

This center, from what I understand, is planning on occupying an empty department store. THAT certainly isn't sacred ground, even though in a country that worships Wall Street perhaps it really is sacred.

[pipi_k]

8. I seriously wonder...

exactly how far away from the WTC site it would be OK to have a Mosque.

Three blocks? Four blocks? Four and a half blocks? Four and 3/5 blocks?

How about the people wanting to build the Mosque start out on the other end of the country and gradually keep moving closer to the WTC site and then stop when the crazies start to feel the hair on their backs rise...

Said sarcastically, of course...

[pinboy3niner]

16. Temecula, CA is not far enough away

There have been protests against the mosque site there, as there have been at sites in Murfreesboro, TN and elsewhere.

Proposed mosques anywhere in the U.S. are being deemed objectionable, no matter how far away from Ground Zero. The only difference is that at these other sites, the "hallowed ground" objection disappears in favor of a list of OTHER objections.

The notion that it would be okay if "they" would just "build it somewhere else," not so close to Ground Zero, is ridiculous, as the protests at other sites--even on the opposite coast--demonstrate.

[Bozita]

17. +1

[Radical Activist]

9. How did you know where my ex lives?

Or were you referring to something else?

[dogday]

10. 2 City blocks away and yet the media still does not speak

of this location, in detail..

[Johonny]

11. last time I checked Muslim Americans died right along side Christian Americans on 9/11

It's not like these Terrorist gave a crap about their victims religion.

[pipi_k]

12. And I'd be willing to bet that

many of the same people who don't want a Mosque two blocks away from the WTC site wouldn't even bat an eyelash about asking for a church right on the site itself.

blech

[Contrary1]

13. You must be mistaken. Sarah claims it is but mere steps away. n/t

[pipi_k]

15. She knows it's the Capitol of Russia, which she can see from her toilet n/t

[old mark]

22. Right - several thousand steps.....nt

[Bozita]

14. If the site were 2 MILES away, would it make any difference?

I think not.

[keep_it_real]

30. "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise,

we don't believe in it at all."
-- Noam Chomsky

[AtomicKitten]

19. Thank you. nt

[snagglepuss]

20. It was damaged by the debris so in that respect one could say its GZ.

Be that as it may it is quibbling to assert that it is 2 blocks away. GZ is simply shortform to indicate it is in close proximity to the site of 911.

[rucky]

33. It's quibbling to assert that it's GZ.

That's the area that's been cordoned off for nine fucking years. The WTC site is where people are imagining the center would be, and the media isn't telling them any different. It's no accident they're saying this - it stirs more emotion (and hatred). It's really important to make this distinction.

[Karenina]

34. A suggestion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8952319

[jberryhill]

21. So what?

If those folks own the building, and if this is America, then they can worship anything they want.

Period.

It doesn't matter if it is ON ground zero, NEAR ground zero, or whatever. I'm certain the First Amendment applies everywhere in the US.

[old mark]

23. It is also to be a community center, like a YMCA , but I guess that's not as evil....nt

[whopis01]

27. My only question is "Is it fun to stay at the Y M M A?" n/t

[old mark]

28. Imagine a sort of Muslim Villiage people......or not......nt

[Kat45]

25. Thank you for that information. I didn't know that.

My bad for believing what they said on the news.

[keep_it_real]

29. EXACTLY!

It's the white wing who want us to believe it is at the world trade center site.

[rucky]

31. I wonder what the cab fare would be?

To get from the actual ground zero to the proposed community center. Knowing that, there could be a better way to frame this.

[Karenina]

35. The most recent assertion is that debris and dust

touched the building making it part and parcel of the "sacred space." :rofl:

[LatteLibertine]

32. The facts do not matter

it's another distraction and ploy the GoP want to use to divide us.

Their real agenda is the continual concentration of money and power upwards to a small very wealthy minority. Or that is the preservation and promotion of the status quo at the expense of the overwhelming majority of our citizens.