Does the NYC Mosque Symbolize Tolerance or Conquest?

Recently, we posted an entry about the new federal health care mandate enacted by Congress and the Obama Administration. We said current events, like the controversy over the proposed mosque in NYC, are, unfortunately, taking our national focus away from the disastrous health care bill.

That said, it doesn't mean the proposed NYC mosque near Ground Zero isn't an important issue, as this article by historian William J. Federer clearly points out. It's a column containing a history lesson that all Americans should contemplate.

As Federer suggests we should rightly question, is the proposed mosque to be built in NYC (which already has 140 mosques in the area) simply an admirable expression of American religious freedom and tolerance or, in the worldwide Muslim mind, of the Islamic conquest of America?