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NRB: Mayor Bloomberg, you said in a radio address, “If somebody wants to build a religious house of worship, they should do it and we shouldn’t be in the business of picking which religions can and which religions can’t. I think it’s fair to say if somebody was going to try to on that piece of property build a church or a synagogue, nobody would be yelling and screaming.” Perhaps you should investigate what Pope John Paul II did in the 1980s.
Logical Answer: Nuns converted a building just outside the wire perimeter of Auschwitz into a convent in the 1980s. Many Jews viewed this as an affront since approximately 1.5 million Jews perished at Auschwitz. The Pope stated that “By the will of the church you are to move now to a different site in Oswiecim.” Like the Pope, Bloomberg should realize that this controversy has nothing to do with denying the Muslims a place to pray. Instead he needs to understand that the problem lies in the fact that building a mosque blocks away from Ground Zero is insensitive to New Yorkers, the victims, and their family members, just like the convent was insensitive to the Holocaust victims and survivors.
NRB: Why are New York officials so hypocritical? They are willing to allow a mosque to be built, with tax-free financing, as stated by a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu, yet, are not willing to rebuild the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, a tiny, four-story building destroyed in 2001 by one of the falling World Trade Center towers.
Logical Answer: Stephen Sigmund, a New York City official, stated that “St. Nicholas Orthodox Church has always had and will continue to have the right to rebuild on its original location. The question was whether public money would be spent to build a much larger church at a separate location on the site and ensuring that construction wouldn’t delay the World Trade Center further.” It’s ok to help finance the building of a mosque, 13 stories high, which was never in the area but it is not ok to help finance the RE-BUILDING of a church that was destroyed on September 11th. Seems that there is a definite disconnect here.
NRB: How do the supporters of the Ground Zero mosque define reconciliation?
Logical Answer: Look at the Polls, 72% of Americans oppose it and nearly twice as many New Yorkers oppose it compared to those supporting it. If the mosque supporters truly want to be bridge builders they would realize their insensitivity and move to another site. How could they achieve their goal of reconciliation when they are unwilling to consider the 9/11 family members feelings and views?
