“The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle/A bandana full of glittering, generality/Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what's reality?/Read about the history of the place that we live in/And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children”- Immortal Technique
By now there is no way you haven’t heard about it. A mosque on Ground Zero? No way, how could they be so insensitive? We’re not going to stand for this, this is America. This IS America…right? The media so fervently projects the opposition view that I felt it my duty to share with you some counter information.
Before we get into the moral issue, let’s delve deeper into the building and the proposal of where and what is to be built. Not only is it four blocks from Ground Zero, but it will not be visible from the future 9/11 WTC Memorial. Although many have only known this site as the “Ground Zero Mosque,” the actual name is Park51 because of its location, 51 Park Place. The sponsors have called the movement the Cordoba Initiative. The name Cordoba was meant to invoke 8th–11th century Córdoba, Spain, which sponsors have called a model of peaceful coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
