Bam! Just Like That! : The Boston Mosque

The construction of a 24.5 million-dollar mosque in Boston to serve approximately 70,000 Bostonian Muslims is meeting legal resistance from its key contrasting religious special interest group and rival.
Now before everyone gets all coltish and 9/11-ish about this, let me say that this proposed mosque is largely symbolic for the entire muslim community across this country as a whole and by no means does the building of it portend that it would be a collective gathering center for the entire 70,000 muslims in Boston on their holy day, any more than the St. Paul Cathedral in New York is the weekly gathering place for the millions of Catholics in NYC or that Temple Emanu-El (also in New York) is the weekly collective meeting place of all 1.4 million Jews in that city. Nor could it be said that Temple Israel in Boston services all of that city's 240,000 members for shule each week. So why are people getting all knee jerky about this mosque and what exactly is the press trying to put across with that big "70,000 Boston muslim congregation" bug-a-boo??
Does the group opposing this effort really hold all Muslims to be "terrorists"? Or more so, are they so afraid that this Mosque represents a virtual, state side Pentagon for those relatively few fundamentalist extremists who have opted to use violence globally to meet whatever their particular demands might be on the rest of the world?
Here's a flash. Maybe...just maybe, folks, the people who seek to build this Mosque in Boston are simply looking to create a place to commemorate, honor and worship their faith in much the same architectural splendor that the Christians and Jews have historically been known for in the cities of this country.
Can anyone recall the construction of any church or temple in any major US city being opposed and thwarted through the veiled use of the law and media manipulation at any time in our history? I can't. I can't even imagine it happening.

I say let that opposition that has a problem with these folks building their own church, eat cake!

Our constitution guarantees all Americans the basic freedom of religion.
Any group, religious or otherwise that puts its own self interests ahead of those constitutional provisions and interferes with the progress of others to pursue their own religious agenda because of their own fear, divergent beliefs or from having a cultural axe to grind is the group that should be more closely scrutinized and whose motives should be brought soundly into public question for examination.
Any concessions made to such a group would be comparable to placing the wishes of said special interest group before the law of this land and very well signals the beginning of the end of some of those very fundamental freedoms this country was est
ablished upon for all intent and purpose.