The Big Question: Should the N.Y. Islamic center sell their building to Trump?

Dick Morris, Pundits Blog contributor, said:

Yes. The mosque will be a center for teaching Sharia Law, a law dedicated to the suppression of women and violence against non-believers. It has no place near Ground Zero.

Justin Raimondo, editorial director of Antiwar.com, said:

No. The Islamic center has become a symbol of religious tolerance — or the lack of it — in the US. If it is stopped, we can kiss our pluralist tradition goodbye. This entire campaign to demonize American Muslims has been cooked up by the War Party, and partisans of Israel, to push the new neoconservative dispensation: the absurd idea that Islam per se is the Enemy, our enemy, and that we have to go to war with a billion-plus Muslims worldwide. Of course, Osama bin Laden agrees with this nutty concept entirely: he, like the neocons, sees the struggle as pitting the U.S. and Israel against the Muslim world in its entirety.

The anti-Muslim jihad being carried out by Newt Gingrich and the neocons is a deadly threat not only to what remains of our liberties here in America, but also imperils our national security. Build the Cordoba House center -— and repudiate the bigots.