[thecavemaster]

For a start, the "Ground Zero" mosque won't be at ground zero...It will be at Park Place, two blocks north of the WTC site (from which it will not be visible), in a neighborhood chock full of restaurants and shops (electronics, ****, you name it), churches, office cubes, and the rest of the New York jumble-jam. Park 51, as it is to be called, will indeed have a large Islamic "prayer room," (I guess that's a mosque)...but the rest of the building will be devoted to classrooms, an auditorium, galleries, a restaurant, a memorial to the victims of September 11, 2001, and a swimming pool and gym. As I understand its sponsors, they envision a sort of Young Men's Islamic Association (YMIA) open to all people irregardless of faith or color or religious flavor....