Fear of N.Y. mosque hardly irrational

You can always tell when the liberal left has lost its arguments; they resort to name calling much like children do. It seems everyone has a phobia nowadays, especially if you disagree with the liberal point of view. Homophobia, immigration phobias, Islamophobia, oh my.

According to the Wikipedia definition, it means an irrational fear of something. So let's get to the point, the Mosque at ground zero should not be built; the argument that it will bridge differences between Christians and Muslims is lame at best. If I remember correctly, there was not one instance of retaliation on Muslims following 9/11 in America.

The left's assertion of religious rights is even more laughable when you considered they sued in court to have a cross in the middle of the desert that honored men and women of the military removed and asserted it violated church and state laws. When they lost that court case, they simply cut it down. Now that's there way of honoring the religious rights in this country. They assert that the few who flew our planes into the towers don't represent the majority of Muslims, which is true, but the reason I don't believe that the Mosque should be built at ground zero is what was even more disturbing that watching the towers fall, was watching the tens of hundreds of thousands of Muslims cheering in the streets of Muslim countries in the days following 9/11.

Do those hundreds of thousands of Muslims who cheered represent the majority of Muslims? Do those Muslims who remained quiet through these years represent the majority of Muslims? Until those questions are answered and Sharia Muslims are denounce in public throughout the world, I can't say I am satisfied.

Martin J. Uttich

Carol Stream