The owners should take the higher ground and not build it there. That would be a constructive good good-faith gesture. Otherwise, it's gonna start trouble.
my god. i think Cries&Whispers and Planet News have written more in one post than I can ever top. this goes down in the record books. when you guys get done with your books, let me know when i can pick it up @ Barnes & Nobles!
Agreed. They have a right to build it, but it's in terrible taste, and they don't have a right to have it publicly funded.
I should add that their right to build it is also assuming that the body which approves or rejects these sorts of applications is being run fairly and evenly. I'm not entirely sure that it is, from what I've heard, but it's worth mentioning that any issue of legality or fair play makes that assumption.
There's no way they approve 5 million for this Ground Zero mosque. That would be terribly wrong.
The fact that they're actually applying for it is disturbing to me.
__________________
"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter." - Ernest Hemingway
I don't know how bad "terrible" is, but it's even more tasteless and ill-advised than trying to build it at all, and it's kind of mind-blowing that they'd apply for it after all the fervor the project's already been met with for merely existing.
is it tasteless for there to be Japanese shops in and around Pearl Harbor ?
because there is. And business is boomen.
__________________
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo.