For weeks now we have been inundated with politicians, news anchors, and everyday citizens seemingly going nuts arguing about the possibility of a Mosque being built on the sacred land in New York City where the world Trade Center use to stand, often referred to as Ground Zero. Although everyone will have their opinions on whether or not Muslims should be allowed to build the mosque on this land, the facts are that legally, there is nothing to stop them.

American is build in the principles of freedom. Free speech, freedom to bare arms, the land of the free, all are phrases which characterize the notion our forefathers had in mind when constructing our constitution. There is not one law that I know of in the American legal system which prevents a religious group from building a temple of prayer at certain locations in the country. Having said this, the majority of Americans are against the idea, and have been protesting for weeks. There is a reason though that Michael Bloomberg, Barrack Obama, as well as even some families of victims of the September 11th attacks are not against the building of this mosque. It’s simple, being against the mosque, is being Un-American. How can we punish people simply because they have some, not all, of the same religious beliefs as did the terrorist on 9-11?

On the other hand, I think it would be fine for the President as well as Mayor of New York to state that the idea of the Mosque is insensitive, unfair, and perhaps a means of instigation for the people who have been touched directly as well as indirectly by the attacks almost 9 years ago.