It's not about Muslims or constitutional rights though media tries to make it so

• 8/22, The media won't come out and say 3000 people were MURDERED. They'll say they were 'lost' or were 'victims,' but won't say what really happened. It's now 9 years of CENSORSHIP, of media blackout.
  

"The positions of President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg — that American Muslims

• have the Constitutional right to establish a mosque anywhere — has become their main issue.

• But that has never been the issue.

Few opposed to the mosque near Ground Zero have argued that Muslims don’t have the right, but have asked whether it’s the right thing to do. It strikes them in the gut, the heart and the head as just plain wrong.

• Yet, when you cite rights as opposed to what’s right, those who consider it the wrong thing to do — a highly reasonable and understandable position —
  

• can then be disregarded as bigots and xenophobes.

The question the Mayor, President and media should more strongly consider is why, if the point men in the establishment of this large mosque are as sensitive as they claim,

• would they want to establish it near Ground Zero?
  

Why would they even choose to be perceived as rubbing Islam into the wounds of those most afflicted by Islamic extremism?

• Imagine if the Bloomberg or Obama had a family member murdered by a lunatic. And then, 10 years later, relatives of the murderers chose to buy the house across the street.

Wouldn’t Bloomberg and Obama find that unsettling? Wouldn’t they wonder why, of all places, these folks chose to live across the street?

• The issue isn’t about legal rights.
  

• It’s about common sense and common decency;

it about passing minimal smell and taste tests. We all have the right to be wrong, but that doesn’t make it right."

• from NY Post column by Phil Mushnick, "Media misses the point about mosque"

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