Some people would probably like not to have mosque stand at ground zero of the 9/11 bombing, especially those who had lost loved ones to that day. Although there is very little that those people could actually do to stop the construction of the mosque, Pastor Terry Jones of Florida tried to hit the Muslims where it hurts, their holy book, the Koran. It was a bold move, but their was too much pressure from many Americans that were against it and over a hundred death threats saying to stop. He was forced to back down.
My opinion is that their should not be a mosque built at ground zero, but I know that Muslims have as much right to build a mosque there as the majority of Christian Americans have to build a church there. Instead it should just be kept as a memorial to the people lost on 9/11. What Jones tried to do was to provoke anger in Muslims, for wanting to build their mosque, by threatening to burn their holy book. His way of logic is dreadfully wrong, instead, the answer is that Christians and Muslims should learn to accept each other's beliefs and not give in to ignorance so quickly. After all, Christianity and Islam are, in many ways, quite similar. They just tell their stories a little bit differently.
Sources:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39113743/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39086961
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