NEW YORK – In a building damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a 13-story mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful religious population. Others see a painful reminder of the religious extremism that killed their loved ones.
Two Muslim organizations have partnered to open the mosque and cultural center in lower Manhattan, saying the $100 million project will create a venue for mainstream Islam and a counterbalance to radicalism. It earned a key endorsement this week from influential community leaders.
But some 9/11 victims' families said they were angered that it would be built so close to where their relatives died.
"I don't like it," said Evelyn Pettigano, who lost a sister in the attacks, during a phone interview on Thursday. "I'm not prejudiced. ... It's too close to the area where our family members were murdered."
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8 comments:
Wake the hell up America!
People should surround that planned center of evil and prevent it from happening!
Who would allow this to happen, this country has NO balls anymore,what a Slap in the face to NYC.
So you idiots are saying the Catholic faith sodomized a thousand innocent alter boys? You jerks are saying the IRA did not slaughter hundreds of innocent people?
America is once again bowing down!
the Muslims turn other groups sacred regions into holy places of their own so they can fight wars...
Kashmir..Jerusalem...Manhattan..no difference
4:55 You're knowledge of history is hilarious. Kashmir is not a religious war at all. Jerusalem was originally designated to a Muslim community and it was taken from them. When Israel was created in 1948 it did not include Jerusalem. They were defending what was their's and that is exactly what we do here every day.
8:09
No he did not take a 14 yr old for a wife. She was 6 when he married her. She was 9 when he consummated the marriage.
it is what it is...all of a sudden the site where Solomon's Temple..has a mosque?
and it isn't Pakistani Islamic thugs furling the violence in Kashmir either..or there was never an Indo-Pakistani War
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