[TriammaMade]

NY Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/..._wtc_area.html

The Mosque planned for Ground Zero is expected to pass a major hurdle Tuesday.

Board members at the Landmarks Preservation Commission intend to vote unanimously against granting protected status to the 152-year-old building that would be knocked down to make way for the project, the Daily News has learned.

The Italianate building on Park Place, two blocks north of Ground Zero, simply does not meet architectural criteria for protection from the city, sources with knowledge of the issue said.

"The building is not worthy," a source said. "It does not rise to the level of an individual landmark."

[vipdumpp]

I haven't been following this one very closely, but let me guess... a whole bunch of legal wrangling, red herrings and such which boils down to some people not wanting a mosque anywhere near the site of the fallen Twin Towers. Is that about right?

[virtuah]

Yep, pretty much. A mosque is a temple of evil, and to put it so close to Ground Zero would be to reward the terrorists.

[Equackasous]

Then there are going to be some unhappy people in NYC; the committee approved the construction.

[sbrscnds]

And, of course, it would be totally disrespectful to ALL of the victims of the 9/11 attacks......

http://islam.about.com/blvictims.htm

[attractiveweb]

Sarah Palin's going to need to invent some new words again to complain about this and express her thinly-disguised contempt for anyone not white and Christian.

[Kemapreedasse]

She can keep her views out of NYC, thank you. We do things right there on our own, as this helps to prove.