" … there are no grounds for opposing it legally (it’s private property, purchased by the organization in a perfectly legitimate fashion), morally (the people building it had nothing to do with the terror attacks of 9/11/2001), religiously (freedom of religious assembly is protected by the U.S. constitution), ethically (the man behind it is a respected scholar and a Sufi, the most peaceful of all Islamic schools of thought), economically (if anything, it will be a boon to the area), or historically (there is already a mosque in the area, closer to the World Trade Center than this one will be)."