Prostesters Descend on Ground Zero For Anti-Mosque Demonstration

Summary: Protesters gather in Manhattan to protest against the plans to start building a mosque near the sight where the Twin Towers once stood. The protesters feel that the building of the mosque is an effort to insult the victims of September 11, 2001 when the World Trade Center was destroyed by Islamist hijackers and will also establish a beachhead for a political Islamic supremacism in New York. They think that Ground Zero is a burial ground and that eveyone needs to respect it as one. "We feel it would be more appropriate maybe to build a center dedicated to expunging the Quranic texts of the violent ideology that inspired jihad, or perhaps a center to the victims of hundreds of millions of years of jihadi wars, land enslavements, cultural annihilations and mass slaughter." These two completely different ideas are hoped to come to some sort of happy medium and used in some way that everyone will appreciate.

Opinion: I actually don't agree with either side of this debate. I don't feel that it would be right to build a mosque with a performing arts center, gym, pool, and other public places over the site of Ground Zero because that place means so much more than that. But i also don't agree with what the protesters want to build there either. I feel that this cherished spot in New York city needs to be kept as a memorial, a place where people can pray for their loved ones lost in the attack, and a place that we can look at and see how our country stuck together during that time of need and to show how proud we are of everyone who fought through the smoke that day. I hope that nothing is built in replace of the World Trade Center and it is kept as a memorial site.