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Notes & CommentsSeptember 2010 Wrong vs. Rights On the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy & the nature of Islam. One of our summertime avocations has been watching the controversy unfold over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” the $100 million, thirteen-story Islamic “community center” avec “prayer space” planned for a spot just around the corner from the crater that once supported the Twin Towers. When we first heard about the plan, early in May, our reaction oscillated between incredulity and outrage: “A mosque? At Ground Zero? The spot where nearly three thousand people were incinerated by Muslim terrorists on 9/11? Surely it’s an unfounded rumor.” No, it was a report, an accurate report, not a rumor. But the tempest that ensued often seemed to compete with the ...
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