I say no.
In the interest of full-disclosure however, before I explain why I say no (which is a simple answer), I want everyone to know that I may be biased: I am a Soldier. A COMBAT Soldier (Army Infantry). I have spent 32 months in Iraq, and am preparing to go to Afghanistan within the next 60 days. I made several (good) friends over there (primarily in the form of my interpreters) and have even lost a few. So...
I say no because it is down-right disrespectful. I know, as much as anyone, that no, no one in that mosque or as a member of that assembly had anything to do with the Twin Towers. The six-degrees-of-separation game probably couldn't link anyone at that mosque to the bombing. BUT (there's always a but....), you (as in the Mosque people, staff, owners, whatever) know, KNOW, that it WAS Islamic/Muslim radical extremists, that did this. You know, KNOW, that doing this will offend LARGE amounts of people. You can decry the executioners of this act as vehemently as you would like, but that changes nothing. Radical extremists or not, they ARE/WERE bad seeds of your tree, and yet you don't care how many people are offended.
Now, on the same note, I do come from a Nation of equality and fairness, so for that I also say this: since there shouldn't be a Mosque there, there also should not be anything else there, other than maybe a nondescript, quiet, unaffiliated, "prayer" room.
But that's my two cents.....
RisnDevil
In the interest of full-disclosure however, before I explain why I say no (which is a simple answer), I want everyone to know that I may be biased: I am a Soldier. A COMBAT Soldier (Army Infantry). I have spent 32 months in Iraq, and am preparing to go to Afghanistan within the next 60 days. I made several (good) friends over there (primarily in the form of my interpreters) and have even lost a few. So...
I say no because it is down-right disrespectful. I know, as much as anyone, that no, no one in that mosque or as a member of that assembly had anything to do with the Twin Towers. The six-degrees-of-separation game probably couldn't link anyone at that mosque to the bombing. BUT (there's always a but....), you (as in the Mosque people, staff, owners, whatever) know, KNOW, that it WAS Islamic/Muslim radical extremists, that did this. You know, KNOW, that doing this will offend LARGE amounts of people. You can decry the executioners of this act as vehemently as you would like, but that changes nothing. Radical extremists or not, they ARE/WERE bad seeds of your tree, and yet you don't care how many people are offended.
Now, on the same note, I do come from a Nation of equality and fairness, so for that I also say this: since there shouldn't be a Mosque there, there also should not be anything else there, other than maybe a nondescript, quiet, unaffiliated, "prayer" room.
But that's my two cents.....
RisnDevil