I just don't see why they chose to go RIGHT there. It's in extremely poor taste regardless of their feelings about 9/11.
Just because so many people have yet to separate terrorists from Islam in general. The people affected by 9/11 are obviously not comfortable with Islam as it is what the terrorists claimed to represent. Regardless of the fact that all Muslims are not terrorists, all the terrorists were Muslims. I'd think they could recognize that it's a sore spot in their religion's image and not try to ruffle feathers unnecessarily. What they represent is also represented by those specific Muslims that so deeply affected their lives to the people in the area.
That's just what I see as being the issue. I don't have a problem with it being there, I just have a problem with why they would want to put it there.
I just don't see why they chose to go RIGHT there. It's in extremely poor taste regardless of their feelings about 9/11.
No of course not, though there'd really be no reason to put either there anyway. A mosque clearly means something different in the eyes of those affected because of the message carried by the terrorists. If they happened to be extreme fundamentalist Methodists that attacked, I'm sure people would be a little perturbed if they then built a Methodist church around the corner.
