In response to Mr. Ghrayep's letter, "Islamophobia shows in issue," I first want to come out and say that I understand that Islam is at its core a peaceful religion. However my opposition to the building of the Islamic Center and Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is not based on Constitutional rights, because legally they are entitled to build it. After all that's what the First Amendment is for, and I respect that. Rather, my opposition is based on the sensitivity of the location this causes to the husbands, wives, and children of those victims who are still grieving almost 10 years after this terrible tragedy has occurred. All I'm saying is can we not give them the common courtesy of respecting their grief and anguish and could we possibly build it somewhere else? Just because we're legally entitled to do something, doesn't make it right.
