PROTESTS IN LOWER MANHATTAN

I've read the AP, REUTERS and AFP accounts and this quote from the AP version explains why the wimgers are so upset:

Steve Ayling, a 40-year-old Brooklyn plumber who carried his sign to a dry spot by an office building, said the people behind the mosque project are "the same people who took down the twin towers."

This is the ignorance promoted by rightwing media gasbags.