While there are other threads covering the issue itself, I felt that is is also important to understand how all of this really started and the agenda behind it.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/16/ground_zero_mosque_origins/index.html
"To a remarkable extent, a Salon review of the origins of the story found, the controversy was kicked up and driven by Pamela Geller, a right-wing, viciously anti-Muslim, conspiracy-mongering blogger, whose sinister portrayal of the project was embraced by Rupert Murdoch's New York Post."
"Geller is less subtle, titling her post that day, "Monster Mosque Pushes Ahead in Shadow of World Trade Center Islamic Death and Destruction." She writes on her Atlas Shrugs blog, "This is Islamic domination and expansionism. The location is no accident. Just as Al-Aqsa was built on top of the Temple in Jerusalem." (To get an idea of where Geller is coming from, she once suggested that Malcolm X was Obama's real father. Seriously.)"
Much more to read there, but it comes down to this being a manufactured controversy by some of our own home-grown radical extremists. People who seem to hate their fellow Americans that happen to be Muslim.
They have resorted to telling lies (ex. the center will open on 9-11) to add fuel to the fire.
I hope those of you that choose read it will come to understand who is the real threat to our country and its values.