This is a post from a friend on facebook on this issue-
The United States of America is the only country with a constitution allowing for the free exercise of religion without giving favor to any specific one. Jerusalem Law states that " The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings towards those places." If the US government were to protect any religiously affiliated building, there would be an uproar, even though technically there shouldn't be. It's a double standard to say that we should have freedom of religion for Christianity and then at the same time call for the denial of rights of another religion because you're afraid or too sensitive of it.
People today seem to think that all Muslims today are terrorists and that anything to do with Islam MUST BE a terrorist plot to take down 'Merica. This is the same kind of fear mongering that led to the red scare in the 50's. Truth is the conservative view point suggests that if you believe what the founding fathers wrote in the constitution was meant to be set in stone and that there is little room for a "living translation" and individual interpretation, then why is the right wing trying to interpret the first amendment in such a way that suits them based on circumstance.
If you truly love the country you live in, you would allow for the constitutional rights of it's citizens to be upheld, if for nothing else because we live in the only country that allows people this freedom. By denying the right to build this we take away the main thing that separates the US from other countries. No other country has a law like the first amendment, and if you think that a group of citizens should be denied their rights, then you are negating the very reason we're fighting against terrorist regimes in the first place. By not letting the community center be built, you have effectively undermined the entire reason the US is fighting extremist regimes. It would literally be more beneficial to groups like Al Queada if the building of this community center is denied.