It's a Mosque ... Get Over It Already!

I saw this sign on the news and it really pissed me off.  

First off let me say as a non-New Yorker, I can't truly understand what it's like to have my city attacked by terrorists, to lose people I live with, work with, and love with every day.  So I cannot say, first hand, what having this Mosque built up in my back yard would feel like.  I can imagine it's like a slap in the face, having the religion of the terrorists who attacked you thrown in your face.

As an American I can say remember what it felt like to have my country attacked; that raw, visceral pain that made me so angry.  However, how many times have one particular group in America's past had their religious or personal freedoms usurped because if offended the majority?  Just because the terrorists who attacked us were Muslims does not mean every Muslim-American is a terrorist.  

By participating in Islamaphobia we are waiving the little white flag to the terrorists and shouting ... "Hey guess what guys?!?!  You won!"

By not protesting the Mosque we are saying "Hey, our First Amendment guarantees religious freedom.  We welcome diversity, and you're not going to drag us down.  Fuck off."

But what it boils down to ... the Mosque is being built on PRIVATE PROPERTY ... get that, Private Property.  The Muslims building it aren't under any suspicion of being terrorists.  

And to the 70% of Americans who oppose it ... mind your own fucking business.  70% of Americans do not live in New York.  So those of us who do not ... we do not deserve a say.  And before you begin to protest, if New Yorkers had an opinion about something being built in BFE South Dakota (or any state) ... I guarantee you South Dakotans would tell New Yorkers to mind their fucking business.  That goes with any state.

First Amendment.  Religious Freedom.  I am not minimizing the losses of 9/11 but those two phrases are legally all that matter here.