42for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

The term Mosque in its colloquial sense means a rather grand palatial Islamic house of worship. If you asked a reasonable person to describe or draw a picture of a mosque, it would not look anything like a community center with a prayer room.

Google images of Mosques, look nothing like google images of Community Centers.

Why you trying to force a technicality is beyond me...

Here is a picture of a NYC Mosque.

While the media widely described the center as a mosque, and the protests were against the mosque, the Initiative's official blog portrayed it as a community center with prayer space, making comparisons to the YMCA or Jewish Community Center.[92] The Initiative said that some services planned for the Cordoba House, such as the restaurant and performance center, disqualify it from being a mosque.[93] Daisy Khan, Imam Rauf's wife and partner, in August 2010 also said:

We insist on calling it a prayer space and not a mosque, because you can use a prayer space for activities apart from prayer. You can't stop anyone who is a Muslim despite his religious ideology from entering the mosque and staying there. With a prayer space, we can control who gets to use it.

Why are you building "a mosque near Ground zero?"

Strictly speaking, it will not be a "mosque," although it would have a prayer space on one of its 15 floors. At the beginning, no one considered the fact that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Abdul Rauf's current mosque is 12 blocks from the Ground Zero site, while the Park51 Community Center location is only 2 and one-half blocks away.  We never discussed wanting to be close to Ground Zero; our goal was to find a good real estate opportunity for a community center.  51 Park seemed to fit the bill.

Also of note:

While a mosque will be located in the planned final structure of Park51, it will be a distinct non-profit. Neither Park51 nor the mosque, which hasn't been named yet, will tolerate any kind of illegal or un-American activity or rhetoric.  The final size and location of the mosque have yet to be determined, but it will only represent a small portion of the final structure.



In July 2009, the real estate company and developer Soho Properties, led by Sharif El-Gamal, purchased the building,[10][11] initially planning to build a condominium complex at the site. In partnership with Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf's Cordoba Initiative, the owners instead decided to pursue the idea of an Islamic community center to be headed by Rauf.[12]

Plans to build Cordoba House were noted in December 2009,[13] at a location that was already in use for Muslim worship....

For several months after its purchase, since September 2009, the building was used as a makeshift Muslim prayer space for up to 450 Muslims, with services led by Rauf.

WiKi

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (Arabic: فيصل عبد الرؤوف‎, born in 1948, in Kuwait) is an Arab-American Sufi[1] imam, author, and activist whose stated goal is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West.

Veiled accusations of racism are not something I like.

Now, about your comparative essay question:

I also watched and listened to several interviews with Sherrod, questions that were addressed to her and to her answers.  I also looked up and read more about her and her connections to the movement -- and I hope that you have done so, as they are fascinating and revealed to me, at least, how much more we are learning and still need to learn about the breadth of the movement as well as its depth in town after town. . . .  And I say that also based upon my decades of life on this planet and having lived through, participated in, and read a lot about the movement -- including about women in the movement, a long-neglected but rich ground for new research.  Have you read, for example, This Little Light of Mine?

Oh, and yes, I think Sherrod is a lot sharper.

A 100+ mph Heater, without "action" can still be a potent weapon if its used in combination with other off-speed pitches, keeping a batter off-stride.

But hitting a fastball, with "snap," ala Ron Guidry in the 70's, is the single most difficult feat in all of sports. And you don't have to take my word for it; you know who made that statement? None other than Ted Williams (who knew a thing or two about hitting)

p.s. Re: Ron Guidry. Guidry, if you recall, weighed in at less than 160 lbs, soaking wet. But when he was on that streak, "in the groove," batters said the ball "snapped" and rose 2-3 inches just before reaching the box.........simply unhittable.
Unfortunately, the damage done to the wrist, elbow, and shoulder in achieving that "snap" guarantees the pitcher's career will be short lived.
I'm sure there were others, but the two pitchers I remember who perfected that "snap" were Goose Gossage (but only in short relief) and my favorite, Steve Carlton.

It peaked my interest which prompted a quick search.

Is this accurate or am I missing something?