I must disagree with Barbara Emanuele’s op-ed column “Build the Mosque.”
As the spouse of an individual who was standing less than two blocks away when the towers fell, placing the mosque in the current location of choice is a direct smack in the face to every person who lost someone that day, and to those who are now and have been losing people who volunteered at the recovery site.
Emanuele speaks of stopping the degradation and theft of Islam. No one is trying to take that away from them. Just don’t do it on the doorstep of a mass execution site of 2,000+ innocent people.
James Hopke
Fresh Meadows
