Good-bye Mr. Bloomberg

Submitted by Maurice Leon (United States), Aug 16, 2010 at 15:15

Bloomberg's flippant comment about the Cordoba Center to be built at 51 Park PL in lower Manhattan, that is that Muslims have a right to build a cultural center and mosque anywhere they want is a little too much for every me, a former Bloomberg supporter. While any group has the constitutional right to do so (there are two mosques in lower Manhattan and an additional eight mosques elsewhere in Manhattan), the issue is proximity to the most successful attack by foreigners on America since the British burning of Washington during the War of 1812. The right to build a cultural center/mosque was never the issue: the issue was the location; two blocks from the site of the Muslim attack on the World Trade Center, which killed over 3,000 people, mostly Americans. President Obama, who, like Bloomberg, also had a rush to judgement amended his initial statement the next day by questioning the appropriateness of a site, which is close to the 9/11 terror attack. So far, we've yet to hear from Mayor Bloomberg in reference to the location of the Center, to be known as the Cordoba Center. Wasn't Cordoba, in southern Spain, the last refuge of the Islamic expansion in Europe in the seventh, through ninth centuries?

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