For those who say Islam is laughing up their sleeve at us about this little mosque building debacle - they are right of course, but – and it is a BIG BUT – we cannot stop this from happening unless we overturn the Constitution itself. Once Islam was recognized as a religion, they were then permitted to do whatever they wanted within the established limits of the Constitution and not overiding The Bill of Rights…we are stuck with it. Democracy is not easy and it often leads to these types of situations where we seem to be at odds with ourselves, contradicting ourselves. We know the KKK exists, we know that many hundereds of militias exist within the US that want to overthrow the US government, we know that the Mafia and Gangs and Druglords and may organizations like them exist: and we know where and who they are. But we cannot simply squash this because we know about it. We cannot simply send in cops or troops or whomever because everybody is protected by the law. Some hide behind the law’s loopholes and exclusions, but that is the price we pay for being a functioning Democracy (actually a Republic but that’s just quibbling). It is a hard thing, and it relies on an informed base of constituents. We are lacking that right now in the US, but to call all of Islam a false religion ruled by Sharia Law and Jihadi priciples is not fair either. Only a small percentage of Muslims live in countries under Sharia Law. Most of the 1 Billion or so Muslims on earth are not going to be gloating over this mosque as some sort of triumph. They will simply head off to work in the pacific rim as most Muslims are of Asian descent and not in the Middle East at all. Muslims have extremists and hard right wingers subverting Islam just as Christianity does. Christians have been by far the super-aggressors of the world political machine for the last 500 years. Christianity makes Islam seem like rank amatuers in war, deception and sheer numbers killed in the name of God/Allah or whatever the f*ck people choose to lie to themselves about…But when Christians build a church in Bethlehem (not PA) to honor the dead from the Crusades in 900ad or so – Muslims felt just the same way. But now – no one but history dorks like me know that. Time eats this sh*t up, and spits back the bleached bones of ignorance and magic and aggression and stupidity as a lesson for all who come after. It is up to us to learn from our mistakes… Our Founding Fathers did. That is why the Constitution and The Bill of Rights supercede all religious law, and why we have Separation of Church and State. Church cannot say what State does, just as State cannot tell Religion what to do. And why the documents we have locked up in vaults in Washington D.C. are much more important and far reaching that any religion will ever be.