| Mr Khan said: As i've said before in this thread, the main issue isn't the legality of it, it comes from people who don't entirely grasp just how much of a difference two blocks can make. I can go two blocks from one end of my University and be in ghetto. I can go two blocks from the other end of my university and be in the richest zip code in Pennsylvania, second richest in USA outside of 90210
The point being, two blocks might as well be worlds apart when we're talking about cities. If we weren't making a big deal about it, most people who would've been in New York to pay their respects at the WTC site wouldn't have even known this place existed. This is only a big deal because some people choose to make it that way. |
In NYC? I'd disagree. I mean, i've been there. The WTC ruins are HUGE, and the blocks... really aren't as big as you'd think. New York streets are very narrow and closed together.
Keep in mind it's not like this is a regular Mosque as well.
This things going to be 15 stories tall. Really it'd depend which blocks it is.
EDIT: Aha, i found the adress. At 45 Park Place.
Depending on how big the building infront of it is, it looks like everyone who visits ground zero by subway could see the mosque as they leave. If I'm remembering correctly it's a 2 story building. (Could be off though, my georgraphy sucks.)
So... that definitly seems uncool. It'd be like building an evangical church right infront of an abortion clinic that got bombed, rebuilt and restaffed.
Not Illegal. Just insensitive.
