We seem to be living in a world filled with extremists, or at least megaphone-wielding extremists.

If there are concerns about imam Rauf's associations, then someone please submit the evidence to the authorities.

Denying the building of a mosque near the WTC site on the grounds that the terrorists who perpetrated those horrible actions were Muslim would be like barring Germans from anything because of their country's Nazi past.

Also, in the interest of fairness there are several instances of Christian churches that were built on conquered sacred ground: Spanish conquistadores in Cuzco, Peru comes to mind. And there are the Roman buildings that were converted to chuches, though I thinkt this is more a case of a change in state religion.

http://currentglobalperceptions.blogspot.com/

PS - the YaleGlobal site bars you from including "Nazi" in their comments...

If we look around the world, the number of conflicts involving religion are many. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc, are all killing each other in great numbers as they have been for centuries.

Religion of any kind is divisive. This is because each religion claims it represents the one true god and its followers alone will gain everlasting life.

The great number of religions and factions of religions clearly suggests that the whole thing is a gigantic fraud. There is no scientific evidence that god or heaven exists and Stephen Hawking has just proved that the universe was caused by the forces of gravity, NOT by a creator.

When are people going to give up the false crutch of religion and live in the real world, one freed from silly superstition and wishful thinking?

<<If we look around the world, the number of conflicts involving religion are many. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc, are all killing each other in great numbers as they have been for centuries.

Religion of any kind is divisive. This is because each religion claims it represents the one true god and its followers alone will gain everlasting life.

The great number of religions and factions of religions clearly suggests that the whole thing is a gigantic fraud. There is no scientific evidence that god or heaven exists and Stephen Hawking has just proved that the universe was caused by the forces of gravity, NOT by a creator.

When are people going to give up the false crutch of religion and live in the real world, one freed from silly superstition and wishful thinking?Posted by David G, Thursday, 9 September 2010 5:25:31 PM>>

Thank-you for all those insults....the sort of thing one would be expect from a fundamentalist

The reaction to the insensitivity of building a Mosque next to an area where thousands were killed by Muslim extremists is of no great surprise. Given the recent uproar by the Muslim community with regards the proposed burning of Korans, which has now been stopped, there is a whiff of hypocrisy in pursuing this.

There is a time and place for everything. This is neither.

I'm a realist not a fundamentalist!

Fundamentalists are found everywhere with a very high concentration in religions, none of which can offer any proof for their ridiculous promises and claims.

Religion proves there's one born every minute!

Agreed david G.Man made god in his own image.Religion is just a tool of repression.