There is a mosque planned near ground zero in New York City, near the World Trade Center, the site of the 9/11 terror attack against the United States. Some 9/11 families think it's okay. Some are protesting. The $100 million project has already won the approval of the city community board.  See the Video.

Some of the negative reaction, coming from the public at large, to the building of this mosque, come from people whom just hate Muslims, because they're not Christians. Some come from people whom think Muslims hate American because of our freedom. Some come from people whom think that Islam attacked us on 9/11 and building a mosque near ground zero of the attack, in a building that was heavily damaged during the attack, is to spit in our eyes. Well, Islam did not attack America. A criminal gang of  thugs who want power in their part of the world attacked America on 9/11.  These thugs practice the Islamic religion, in the same way that the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan practice Christianity.

The fact is that these thugs, whose focus is more on politics than on religion, kill many times more Muslims than they do non Muslims, every year. Their attack on America was to demonstrate their power to terrorize. Those planes that flew into those building didn't just kill non Muslims. Muslims died on 911, at ground zero too.

This conflict with Bin Laden, with Al Qaeda, and with  the various Talibans, must not become a fight with Islam. That is what Bin Laden wants. Such a war would fuel a hatred that would leave the world in ruins. The Bin Ladens then think that they will be able to pick up the pieces in their part of the world. But if there would be any pieces left anywhere, they would be very few, for hate is a destroyer, such a hate would destroy the world.

As for my opinion of the mosque planned for a site near  ground zero -- Sometimes I think the world could do with fewer churches and fewer mosques, fewer temples, fewer places where people gather that separate themselves from others.