No, I do not. I believe there has been a massive cover up in the government's failure to do it's job and that the attack could have been averted but I do believe (until proven otherwise) that they were brought down by terrorists in planes.
Or I could just keep referring to it as the Islamic community center or cultural center.
I didn't ask myself, I Googled it. The answer seems to be "a bunch".
It didn't become a "hot button issue" until outsiders made it so.
And controversy, real or artificial, is not a reason to not do something lawful and moral.
It's not a "mosque", just because 90% of the media is too lazy to get it right doesn't mean you have to play dumb too.
It's being built in the heart of Manhattan, that's a pretty good location for such an attraction. Cultural centers aren't just for one group, they're for anyone who wants to visit.
Questions like this expose your lack of wanting to understand the entire issue. I recommend strongly you expand the number of sources you get your information from.
Here's a direct quote from FactCheck.Org
Is the center scheduled to open on Sept. 11, 2011?
Organizers say no. As best we can determine, the idea that the cultural center and mosque would open that day is unfounded speculation. Project organizers say that no official date has been set for the opening of the proposed center. Imam Rauf told Newsday back in May that it could take anywhere from 18 months to three years to raise the money to complete the project, and added that the center wouldn’t open on the anniversary of Sept. 11. Project organizers took to the social networking site Twitter as recently as Aug. 20 to knock down the claim, saying: "Reports that we will open on 9/11 or begin construction on 9/11 are false and inflammatory. Our timeline to build is 18 - 38 months."
The idea that the center and mosque would open on Sept. 11, 2011 — the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001 — has been bandied about on blogs and discussion boards. The American Freedom Defense Initiative sponsored advertisements that may have also contributed to that thought. The initiative’s ads appeared on New York City buses and asked, "Why There?," with an image of a plane flying into a burning World Trade Center, next to a rendering of the proposed building with the words "September 11, 2011, WTC Mega Mosque."
Why not? Some actual 9/11 victims' families are against it and some are for it while others are indifferent. As many as 300 people killed that day were Muslims, including first responders, is there sacrifice worth less?
1. At least we agree on that. I was starting to think you was in the "truth" movement. The only thing I would differ from you is that it was a cover up about the lax of alertness before 9-11. As I recalled, Bush recounts many times about the "pre-9-11" mentality, and how it was wrong. Even includes himself in that thinking as well. A government cover up will never state that it was wrong. Unless I'm not understanding what you are stating, please clarify what you meant.
2. Dude quit spinning for your argument. The center WILL have a mosque inside of it. They keep changing what it suppose to be to make it less divisive. You should know this....
3. Upgrade, really, if the mosque was never mentioned the muslims who died on that day *non-terrorist* would be remembered the same way any other group would be. Having a Mosque open on 9-11 doesn't highlight that fact. This been stated many times in the past about muslims dying in the WTC.
I'm going to raise a question, and I'm completely serious about this. Is it funny how a lot of this stuff is being revved up more since our dear President has be elected?