Judge Junks Suit To Halt "Ground Zero Mosque"

Source: NY Daily News



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/07/judge-junks-suit-to-halt-ground-zero-mosque

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Something for a conservative group to develop another Presidential candidate "pledge" around...

If they can raise the money, while hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees are starving in camps in Africa and desperate for donations. How many have drowned trying to cross to Europe?

But it's so much more important to plant a mosque next to a disaster caused by radical Muslims. Prove how peaceful and loving and wonderful the Muslim faith really is. Forget the living.

But I'm sure these are two different issues and there's plenty of money to go around. Be sure to donate to the mosque. It won't affect how many children die.

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We do.

How much money do you think is spent building synagogues and churches across the country--not to mention paying priests, pastors, and rabbis, or purchasing religious paraphernalia?

Aside from there being another mosque in the area, and aside from it not being "next to a disaster" but blocks away and not within sight, and aside from it being a community center designed to bring people together and not a "symbol", and aside from your hatred of a religion based on some extremists, and aside from your complaint that moderate and liberal muslims wanting to help, aside from all that, nothing wrong with your post at all.

The "OMG GROUND ZERO MOSQUE!" contingent here seemed to come to a general consensus that a Muslim anything built anywhere in New York City was too close to it.

(Considering most of the same crowd were claiming the Sufi behind the center is a secret Wahabbist, I can't exactly put that on DU's list of finest hours.)

God is keeping count on who builds the best buildings.

It's 50% of the final grade.

The Subgeniuses are also in the race. They are planning on adding a pipe to the face on Mars, so that the universe can witness the wisdom of Bob and become party to the glory of slack. They plan to get started on it tomorrow.

I trust that God will know who loves Him most.

Ah, yes. So peace-loving Muslims are responsible for the actions of other Muslims. I guess that means I'm responsible for the actions of "Christians" who go around murdering doctors who perform abortions,

Wow, can you spell bigotry? Do you apply those standards to non-Muslim groups? How about no synagogues while Israel is grinding the Palestinians into dust? No churches while that Christian nation, the U.S., is blowing up civilians left and right in other countries?

The community center should be allowed to go forward, but I'd feel better if the court had thrown out the suit on its merits, rather than on standing.

Suppose that someone planning a Hall of Conservative Heroes wanted to demolish an old building that, in many preservationists' eyes, clearly qualified for landmark status. Suppose further that a right-wing-dominated landmarks board had refused to landmark the building because it ardently favored the construction of a tribute to Herbert Hoover, Oliver North, etc. The decision on Park 51 would be a precedent that blocks nonpolitical preservationists from challenging such a politically motivated decision.

As a lawyer who's litigated environmental cases, where standing is often an obstacle to the environmentalists with no direct economic stake in a project, I can't be completely happy about this result.

but as I understand it, that building has bupkus historic value.

My point is that, based on the linked article, the decision wasn't on the merits of this particular landmarking decision, but was on standing. That would mean that even a politically motivated decision to allow the destruction of an important building could not be challenged in court.