Seems a little insensitive it is important to people

so what?  nobody goes into the ghetto and screams the N word for fear of death either.  You can offend people, you just have to understand that people are gonna be pissed off and might do something to you.  They will be put in jail for violent action, your speech will not.  It is still legallly protected speech.  comedy central didn't have to censor it, that was their decision.

I laugh at stuff like this... when Christianity was in its Dark Ages and patrolling the lands killing anyone who didn't follow their version of Christianity, gays, "witches", etc; Islam was at the forefront of the world's philosophy as it was reprinting the Greek knowledge the Christians burned and building on that in all forms of science, astronomy, math, etc. During this time it was that influence of intelligence from Muslim lands through Spain did the beginnings of the Renaissance begin.

Islam's current plight is directly due to what came after that with being ruled by Turks then Western powers to this day. Instead of flourishing and building off of what they were, they closed down and reverted to barbaric customs, lack of educational dialogue, far lower literacy, and so on.

Now that there are places in the western world like this proposed mosque that could eventually bring about an Islamic Renaissance and a return to the freedoms Islamic society used to allow; you want to not allow it because its within a couple miles of a site that once had 19 people who called themselves Muslims who killed thousands of other people, including hundreds of other Muslims?

Many of you have spoken so many times of the ways of most Muslim countries and how they wouldn't allow the opposite, etc. That's such a hypocritical bullshit answer. WE ARE NOT THEM. WE ARE ABOVE THESE ACTIONS. What's next? Are we going to create anti-gay laws? Oh wait, its ok as long as they don't marry right? Are we going to start measuring the distance of any non-Christian temple to everything else in society in case it might be too close for comfort?

Even after the Christians murdered thousands in the Crusades; Muslims still allowed the many Christian Churches to remain all through Jerusalem and even renovated ones damaged during the fighting. Time we learn from a history instead of repeating its mistakes.

"(CNN) - A proposed mosque to be built two blocks from the World Trade Center has little support nationwide, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll suggests.

According to the new survey out Wednesday, nearly 70 percent of all Americans oppose the controversial plan to build the mosque just blocks away from the solemn site in lower Manhattan while just 29 percent favor the construction."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/11/overwhelming-majority-oppose-mosque-near-ground-zero/

I know you laugh at articles like this but you did not tell us why.  You just went on ranting about how bad Americans were and Christians were and the fact that we are not a Muslim country we need to be different.  Rant all you want about Christian history (and yes crusades were bad and inquisition was worse), but that's back then.  we have evolved and Muslims need to do the same.  so instead of ranting your hate, why not just argue against the article?

He has a good point I think and it's well taken, why do people just rant about how bad christians and the conservatives are.  who is dividing the country - both sides are.

btw, i don't mind the cultural center built there and some conservative points are stupid.  but liberals who yell and rant and call names are stupid.

if christians, in the name of Jesus murdered 3000 people and then build a Christian cultural center there, I would be against it and would plead whoever in charge to not do it.  Maybe use the money to build a mosque or something.

LOL, well at least it is a source. Love to see the similar question proposed as being near a school or Church or any number of other buildings. Bet the answer would be pretty much the same. Problem is they only interview about 1,000 people. It really depends on where those thousand live and their personal beliefs. All I know is the generally right centered group of people I work with in a red state predominantly think it is n't that big of a deal.

I agree that the symbolic victory for radical muslims is a bit of a problem but your analogy is flawed since a white racist church (whatever that is lol) would be much more extremist and provocative than just a regular mosque.

Sometimes it ends up where some people think its all about how tolerant they are.  They sit so high up in the nest of tolerance looking down at all the unwashed that they do not see how a situation might be a little more complicated.

Why don't you try looking at it from the side of the people who might be appalled by this. 

Yes they have the legal right no doubt and if I had the power I wouldn't stop them but I would try to persuade them not to.

Becaue the article is pointless and stupid. Just as you say it was then and not now in regards to the ugly Christian past, I say its over there and them not over here and us. Same arguement. Two wrongs don't make a right? Does that ring a bell? Just because many Muslim countries are repeating the mistakes of Christianity in the Dark Ages, doesn't mean we should forget what we've already learned. Instead we should learn from the Islamic society of that time and give their ancestors their Renaissance. Part of that is allowing good bridges to be built from the ashes of disaster.

The building is still a good distance away (2blocks is over 1mile and close to 2), so really its a non-issue. Plus, its being orchestrated by a person who has strived hard for a new Islamic Amercian identity that focuses on the path forward and more modern thinking that what is spewed in Saudi Arabia and other religious nuts.