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Here is one to think about....the noise pollution. How long with the "call to prayer" be played over loudspeakers and how often until the local populace gets fed up with the disruption to their lives.
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There are Mosques around here and one does not hear any calls to prayer from them on any day of the week. Other than the normal traffic sounds, it's only the fire station testing its disaster warning siren daily at 1200 or the local Catholic church playing its bells to announce certain calls to worship several times a day - and then there are the periodic teens in their cars with their stereo systems cranked up until a police officer hears them and either warns or cites them for violating the noise ordnances.
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...but to put a religious gathering place so close to a sacred spot is no short of a disgrace to the freedom that gives us that opportunity...
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I was always under the impression the area around the WTC was a financial district which - to me - sounds like a poor place for ANY religion to want to place a structure...except maybe for money worshippers.
Would cost us tax payers a lot of $$ to remove all those
religious gathering places which are so close to sacred spots in this country - especially all those which actually sit on such sites.
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And I hope it doesn't!!! I hope with every board that gets nailed up, it gets burned down! With any concrete that gets poured, it gets vandalized.
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Now that's the ol' Christian and American thing to do - nothing like a return to those
goode olde dayes of yore. I'm guessing there's a conflict with some between the 1st Commandment and the 1st Amendment.
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Once such legislation/regulations pass, what would be next? What if, a few years from now, a majority of Americans start calling for laws that forbid statutes and monuments that pay tribute to the CSA and those who fought for it?
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Never happen -
those were just gawd fearing Christians following holy scripture, not some Muslim horde seeking to enslave all who won't submit to their scribbled version of the truth. 
Personally, I think the whole idea of pushing for a mosque on lower Manhattan is a
BIG mistake and a
HUGE PR disaster for the American Muslim communtiy - and it also could cost us dearly if we don't handle it well.
And so it goes...
Richard
