# Resolved: WTC Site is not "sacred ground" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 7, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473 "2010-08-07T01:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/81 "2010-08-11T21:45:25Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > > > I’ve asked this question before, but haven’t managed to get an answer yet. It’s clear that for some people (perhaps Magiver), constructing a mosque two blocks away from the WTC site is unacceptable. OK, so how many blocks away would be the minimum acceptable distance for construction of a mosque? > > It’s pretty clear from the things going on at the moment: > > [ul] > [li]the “international burn a Quran day” being held on September 11 by a church in Tallahassee[/li][/ul] Gainesville! Those bigots are in Gainesville, not Tallahassee. (Just had to clear that up.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/82 "2010-08-11T21:59:10Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > > [@Marley23](#): > > > > The building _is_ located in a sensitive place. > > And New Yorkers want assurances the $100 million dollar cost is not funded by those who made it a sensitive place. It’s not a court of law, it’s a court of public opinion. Since when is Al Qaeda funding meditation rooms and swimming pools? > [@](#): > > Do you not see the value in the knowledge of where the money comes from for this cultural bridge? If you don’t want to shoot hoops on the Sayyid Qutb Memorial Basketball Court and have a nosh at the Mohammed Atta Food Court, you don’t have to. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/83 "2010-08-11T22:09:58Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > If you don’t want to shoot hoops on the Sayyid Qutb Memorial Basketball Court and have a nosh at the Mohammed Atta Food Court, you don’t have to. I’m guessing the folks in New York would prefer they build those somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/84 "2010-08-11T22:19:46Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > > [@Marley23](#): > > > > If you don’t want to shoot hoops on the Sayyid Qutb Memorial Basketball Court and have a nosh at the Mohammed Atta Food Court, you don’t have to. > > I’m guessing the folks in New York would prefer they build those somewhere else. Sounds like you’re projecting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/85 "2010-08-11T22:28:52Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > I’m guessing the folks in New York would prefer they build those somewhere else. You’re the expert. Certainly my observation that a small number of people are really upset about this and the rest are just grumbling doesn’t carry any value. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/86 "2010-08-11T22:33:29Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > > [@Magiver](#): > > > > I’m guessing the folks in New York would prefer they build those somewhere else. > > Sounds like you’re projecting to me. Yes, given I was responding to a terrorist funded scenario I am projecting that people would object. It’s a crazy world out there but a Mohammed Atta Food Court isn’t going to be as popular as you think. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/87 "2010-08-11T22:42:12Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > > [@Airbeck](#): > > > > Sounds like you’re projecting to me. > > Yes, given I was responding to a terrorist funded scenario I am projecting that people would object. It’s a crazy world out there but a Mohammed Atta Food Court isn’t going to be as popular as you think. You were supposed to find the very idea of a Mohammed Atta Food Court too ludicrous to take it seriously. Which part of culinary school, basketball court, day care, and meditation rooms makes you suspect the sinister hand of Al Qaeda? ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/88 "2010-08-11T22:44:45Z")
A terrorist funded scenario that you invented in your own mind and then assumed everyone in New York agreed with? Yeah that is the projecting that I was referring to. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473/89 "2010-08-11T22:58:55Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > > [@tomndebb](#): > > > > I was quoting you. > > No, you weren’t. Really? > [@Magiver](#): > > Rejecting a national culture that is openly hostile to women and other religions is not xenophobia. You’d better get that third party away from your computer. > [@Magiver](#): > > A paper trail has not been established. One has not been found despite months of crying from the likes of WND and the Washington Times. I see no reason to waste money or effort trying to look for something that professional haters with all the resources of the press have not found. For one thing, it is contrary to all history regarding Wahabbism, al Qaida, and related groups. They have never tried to go “stealth” with an idea, always broadcasting their hatred openly and publishing their intentions. To promote the sort of idea that gets upset at the Cordoba Initiative, one would have to postulate that the Islamists would be willing to fund an organization that has been openly rejecting their brand of Islam for more than ten years prior to the WTC/Pentagon attacks, just so they could put up a community center in Manhattan. That is a variety of paranoia in which I am unwilling to expend any effort. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-wtc-site-is-not-sacred-ground/549473.md?page=4)