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I have the same concerns. The closest I can come to seeing a valid (individual rights based) approach to government interference with something like the building of a mosque would be government seizing a mosque, the funds, and arresting the principles if it could be proved that it was knowingly a front for a listed terrorist organization. And I would feel more comfortable with that if we had a formal declaration of war specifically directed at those organizations.
We have two basic kinds of war. Those that are fought with physical force and those that are cultural wars - wars of ideas. We will never be clear in our conflicts with Islam, Islamic terrorists, or Islamic nations until we keep those distinctions clear.
In a cultural war you shouldn't use government and you should never let government make laws that deal with ideas!
Islam is a religion (and a political ideology) - these are ideas, not actions, organizations, or nations. We can only include Islam into cultural wars.
If congress does a proper job of declaring war where it is needed to defend the nation against attacks that would cause damage on a national level, then all people of that nation or organization and all the attempted acts and all of there assets are fair game.
The information on The Ground Zero mosque may be enough to warrant an investigation to see if it has a direct connection to an organization listed on the list of terrorist organizations. That should be done with any Islamic organization where there is evidence of being connected to terrorist organizations. It there isn't, then it can only be attacked as a cultural target.
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