> I feel that it is EXTREMELY insensitive to build 3 blocks from the site. It does concern me that it may be used in the future for other than religious freedom.
I am strongly in favor of building the mosque, as well as an even larger mosque on the National Mall - provided it is part of an interfaith building project that would also build a Christian cathedral and a Jewish synagogue in Mecca the same distance from the Kaaba that the proposed mosques would be from the Capitol and Ground Zero.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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