What are your views regarding the permission given by President Barack Obama to build a mosque near ground zero in New York?

Obama's position is exactly what it should be. A few people being offended doesn't justify government action to block an entirely legal action. In any case, judging anyone by what a few extremists who hold similar beliefs are willing to do is silly, as there's nutjobs of every shape and color out there.

My position is that community leaders should have appreciated the concerns of the majority of it citizens that the mosque be built. There are several hundred mosques serving NYC Muslims, and to consider all the alternative sites it is questionable why this site was chosen. Lastly, the empty rhetoric by the politicians that by allowing the mosque built at this location will "show the world what a open country and diverse country we are".

The US does not have to show any people, in any nation the kind of nation we are. For more than one hundred years we have done the heaviest lifting in the cause of freedom and liberty, so no symbolic gesture is needed. While the Moslem world stood on the sidelines, the US saved Kuwait.

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Well he just said they had the right to do it, which I don't even think was in dispute. Yes, we all know they have the right to do it, but should they? Even Sarah Palin mentioned this in a recent facebook post, but how can this mosque encourage cross culture talks, when before its even been built its having the exact opposite effect.

The President did not give permission or endorse the Community Center (it is not a Mosque, nor is it at Ground Zero - it's 2 blocks away at a Burlington Coat Factory department store). He simply stated the fact that in this country ALL are entitled to Freedom of Religion and popular opinion does not get to change that. It is only a very loud MINORITY that wants to oppress the Freedom of Religion of Muslims in this country, not the majority.

Most of us understand that Islam did not attack the US, a few extremist crazy people did. They have every right to build the Community Center, Mosque, or anything they sit fit - their 1st Amendment rights are not up to a vote. America must hold fast to the values that this country was founded upon, freedom is not free, and it's not limited to when it's comfortable to Christian or secular society.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.