I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

- Aasif Mandvi

I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

- G. Willow Wilson

The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

- John Podhoretz