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Must-See Film on Ground Zero Mosque ControversyFrom PJM: An interview with Pamela Geller, one of the producers of The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of 9/11 Attacks. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, a movie about the Ground Zero mosque...
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Newsmax: Ground Zero Mosque Developers Seek $5 Million Federal Grant Monday, 22 Nov 2010 Developers of the Park51 Islamic community center and mosque, which has come to be known as the "ground zero mosque” two blocks from the site for the World Trade...
- Muslims Plan Whining Summit To Support Gz Rabat Plan
Looks like we rattled some cages last weekend. NBC is reporting that the ummah in NYC has its feathers well and truly ruffled and is planning a pigeon coo for this weekend to support the Ground Zero 9/11 Victory Rabat and Interfaith Table Tennis Club...
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Obama backtracks over Ground Zero mosque after furious 9/11 families label him 'insensitive and uncaring' From the Daily Mail: Friday: 'Let me be clear: As a citizen and as President I believe that Muslims have the same right ... to build...
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Televangelist Counters Ground Zero Mosque by Opening Christian Center Nearby… From Weasel Zippers: (Christian Post)- In response to a proposed mosque blocks from ground zero, controversial televangelist Bill Keller announced on Tuesday that he plans...
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Muslim leaders to abandon plans for Ground Zero community center
Insiders say Muslim spiritual leaders behind the controversial initiative are considering giving up on the former World Trade Center location, in a gesture of appeasement.
Oh noes, we shoulda done a hudna?
From Haaretz:
After weeks of heated debate over plans for an Islamic community center near Ground Zero - the site of the 9/11 attacks on New York - it seems Muslim leaders will soon back down, agreeing to move to a new site.
The decision follows a high-profile campaign against the project that included advertisements on New York buses showing images of the burning Twin Towers, an iconic landmark razed when al-Qaida terrorists flew packed passenger planes into them in 2001. The New York Republican party is also said to be planning a hostile television campaign.
Sources in New York said on Monday that Muslim religious and business leaders will announce plans to abandon the project in the next few days.
New York Governor David Patterson said last weekend that Muslim leaders had rejected outright his proposal tto swap the site in for another in Manhattan.
But several people familiar with the debate among New York's Islamic activists now claim that the leaders are convinced abandoning the site is preferable to unleashing a wave of bitterness towards Muslims.
They also hope the move will be seen as a show of sensitivity to families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, and to the American public generally.
Another factor in the apparent climbdown is a lack of funds to pay for construction of the center, estimated to cost a hundred million dollars. Backers hope moving it will lead to a wave of support, accompanied by cash donations.
It is also possible that the decision was also influenced by comments made by U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday, in which he appeared to reverse an earlier show of support.
Obama said that when he went on record backing the center, he meant only that it was the right of every religious group to establish its own places of worship – but he did not intend to justify building the center specifically at Ground Zero .
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Must-See Film on Ground Zero Mosque ControversyFrom PJM: An interview with Pamela Geller, one of the producers of The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of 9/11 Attacks. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, a movie about the Ground Zero mosque...
- Who Does Imam Faisal Want To Help Pay For The Ground Zero Mosque And Armory? You!
Newsmax: Ground Zero Mosque Developers Seek $5 Million Federal Grant Monday, 22 Nov 2010 Developers of the Park51 Islamic community center and mosque, which has come to be known as the "ground zero mosque” two blocks from the site for the World Trade...
- Muslims Plan Whining Summit To Support Gz Rabat Plan
Looks like we rattled some cages last weekend. NBC is reporting that the ummah in NYC has its feathers well and truly ruffled and is planning a pigeon coo for this weekend to support the Ground Zero 9/11 Victory Rabat and Interfaith Table Tennis Club...
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Obama backtracks over Ground Zero mosque after furious 9/11 families label him 'insensitive and uncaring' From the Daily Mail: Friday: 'Let me be clear: As a citizen and as President I believe that Muslims have the same right ... to build...
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Televangelist Counters Ground Zero Mosque by Opening Christian Center Nearby… From Weasel Zippers: (Christian Post)- In response to a proposed mosque blocks from ground zero, controversial televangelist Bill Keller announced on Tuesday that he plans...