The mosque has been in the planning stages for years. It is two blocks from the Ground Zero site. How far away would be far enough for you?

It is not a mosque for the same branch of Islam as the extremists who flew the planes into the buildings.

" the spiritual leader of the Cordoba Initiative, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, describes himself as a Sufi — a Muslim focused on Islamic mysticism and spiritual wisdom."

It is not a mosque built in memory of the Sunni terrorists.

I maintain, as an American who strongly believes in the right to religious freedom, that there is nothing controversial about this planned mosque, but that lately certain branches of the media have latched onto it as a "hot" topic, and are trying to distract people from real issues that matter.