Map of "Ground Zero" and Cordoba House, to provide perspective

[steve2470]

For those of you who already know this, my apologies.

As you can see from this aerial photo, Cordoba House will not be able to be seen from Ground Zero. The buildings on Vesey and Barclay Street are in the way. The address of Cordoba House is 45 Park Place, for those of you who wish to use your own map.

[dkf]

1. Parts of the 9/11 plane went through the roof and the two top floors of the cordoba house location.

Not two blocks away. Right smack dab there. Irony is if cordoba house had been located there at the time of the attack there would have been victims of that attack at that exact location. Then everyone would call it ground zero.

[kestrel91316]

3. I wouldn't care in those circumstances, either. Seriously. I guess my

blase live-and-let-live attitude comes from decades of living among large numbers of secularized muslims here in SoCal. We have several Islamic Centers here in the valley (Islamic Centers of Southern California is the umbrella organization) and you'd never know it unless you drove by one. They are unobtrusive clusters of 50's and 60's vintage cardboard boxes just like so many christian churches here. No minarets, no muezzins calling the faithful to prayer, just an ordinary house of worship.

The Lutherans are more noticeable than the muslims here.

[Hannah Bell]

4. bullpuckey. it's two (city) blocks from one of the twin towers & 3-5 from the other.

give it a rest with the mosque & "illegal" immigrants already.

[uppityperson]

13. you seriously believe a place 2 blocks from wtc would be called "ground zero" if people

had been killed there? Good grief

[spanone]

15. 2 blocks away.

[bbinacan]

2. Looks to me to be

about 600 feet away.

[Hannah Bell]

5. = .12 miles. catholic church = 50 feet away, episcopal 200 feet away, etc.

multiple churches as well as buddhist & jewish institutions within 4-5 blocks.

[name not needed]

8. Not to mention an already existing mosque another 2 blocks up.

[pokerfan]

11. which is located here...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/nyregion/14mosque.html

[Hannah Bell]

16. not to mention 5 churches, 3 synagogues, 1 buddhist temple, 1 court of orthodox judaic law,

1 christian cemetery -- so what?

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

:thumbsup:

[RufusTFirefly]

7. Shouldn't matter either way. This is frickin' America, Dude

Some people wouldn't recognize the First Amendment if it hit 'em smack in the face.

[steve2470]

10. You assume I disagree with you. I don't....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8948363&mesg_id=8948709

[RufusTFirefly]

12. I don't assume that

But any argument about proximity undercuts that Constitutional argument. It suggests that there is some sort of imaginary "comfort zone," and as long as the building is outside of that zone, everything is fine.

You know, personally, I'm pretty creeped out by people who fetishize the image of a bloody, half-naked man with nails driven through his feet and hands. (Bill Hicks famously likened it to admirers of JFK wearing Mannlicher-Carcano pins in their lapels.) But I can't do a thing about it. Nor would I try. That's because I respect the Constitution. That bizarre tradition is protected by the First Amendment. As are the magic underpants. As is any other religious institution or tradition.

[name not needed]

9. A picture's worth a thousand words...

[Turborama]

14. Actually, that picture's worth a lot more than a thousand words!

Great job! Did you create it?

[rucky]

18. effin' brilliant.

[rbixby]

17. I fail to see why its even an issue

Its not like the 'central imam', or 'islamic pope' (since there isn't one) conspired to have 9/11 happen. These folks just want to build their damn community center. Who cares what the location is? All it does is speak volumes to the intolerance of so many people against Islam.

[eppur_se_muova]

19. Great, now we can call it the "Park Place Mosque" !

Drop that "Ground Zero Mosque" meme.