It's two blocks away. As far as Manhattan property goes, that might as well be in another state.

Oh no, I'm not asking anyone to keep hush, I just imagine people would want to, almost out of respect. All I'm saying is that if I were a Muslim I would rather go to the mosque down the road as opposed to one where people who associate themselves with my faith caused the deaths of thousands of people.

In my analogy of me in China, I wouldn't appear to reject my atheism if someone were to ask me about it, but I wouldn't want to advertise it either.

Do you get where I'm coming from.

But Muslims were responsible for the attacks. You cannot say that everyone whose good is part of the faith and everyone whose bad isn't. You have to take both. Most people don't think all Catholic priests are pedophiles but that doesn't mean that the Catholic priests who are, aren't Catholic. They certainly are. You cannot claim  all the good without people raising the bad as example in response. To paraphrase David Attenborough, "When people tell me about how beautiful the world is and how thats proof of God's existence I have to think about the worm whose evolved to eat the eyes of animals from the inside out." Or something along those lines.

That is of course not to say that all Muslims are terrorists, but certainly many terrorists are Muslim.

Greg Gutfeld is very homophobic? I watch Red Eye every night, and this is news to me.

lolz.

i fully support buiding a mosque.  it's stupid people are throwing a fit over this.  however, building a gay bar right next too it...awesome response.  i also support this!

I get you and yes, it's understandable if you choose not to but that mosque may well be your 'one down the road'. It's not just a mosque though, it's a centre for many things. A social centre for New York Muslims. I understand the reasoning you put forward.

When Talibans will be free to express their latent sexual orientation instead of being forced to repress it, they'll stop pouring out their frustration so violently and they'll become nice guys!   

I'm saying "don't generalise."  There are as many versions of Islam as Christianity. You mentioned Catholic Priests but when talking of that you didn't mention Protestant, Orthodox, Methodist or any other, just Catholic. Just saying Muslims is generalising. 

Most of those in a faith are good people, they follow the teachings that promote peace, love and repsect, and classifying those who aren't good, the terrorists or the Phelps of this world, as that faith is something that should not happen. They certainly do not represent the vast majority.

Not really, to be a Muslim or Christian you have to follow all the rules of the religion you can't just pick what you want to follow. I'm pretty sure your not allowed to kill anyone or touch little boys in Christianity or Islam. So that would mean those Priests and murderers aren't Christians or Muslims. It's like someone saying they're non-alcoholic but they still drink anyway. That would mean they aren't non-alcoholic.

That's basically the point, as I'm sure, is the point to build a mosque so close to ground zero in the first place but at least it's being done in a funny way, instead of effigies of mohammed being burned or what have you.  A lot of people are genuinely being pissed off about this because they lost lives as a result of islam gone bad and this seems like a good way to make the muslims be more accepting.  Good for gutfield.