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Home News Sport TV&Showbiz Femail Health Science&Tech Money Debate Coffee Break Property Motoring Travel News Home World news Headlines Pictures Most read News Board My Profile Logout Login Find a Job Dating Wine E-Editions Feedback My Stories Monday, May 17 2010 3PM 15°C 6PM 14°C 5-Day Forecast New York's fury at plans for Ground Zero mosque
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:52 PM on 17th May 2010
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Plans to build a giant mosque close to Ground Zero have caused a storm of protest from families who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks.
Angry relatives claim the move is an ‘insult’ to the victims of the World Trade Centre atrocity.
The mosque is part of a proposed 13-storey Muslim community centre, which will include a swimming pool, gym, theatre and sports facilities.
'Sacred' ground': The World Trade Centre attacks claimed 3,000 lives. Plans to build a mosque at Ground Zero site have been described as a 'slap in the face'
The building, which was damaged by the fuselage of one of the hijacked planes, is at 45 Park Place - just two blocks from Ground Zero.
It formerly housed a Burlington Coat Factory store. The store's two selling floors were destroyed when the landing gear from one of the planes tore through them during the attacks.
Construction is due to begin on September 11 next year – the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack.
A massive rally protesting the plans has been scheduled for June 6 as anger grows.
Rosemary Cain, whose fireman son was killed, said: ‘I think it’s despicable. That’s sacred ground. It’s a slap in the face.
'How could anybody give them permission to build a mosque there?’
Bill Doyle, whose son was also among the 3,000 victims, said: ‘What I’m frightened about is that it’s almost going to be another protest zone – a meeting place for radicals.’
Paul Sipos, a member of the New York community board, said the £68million community project should be located somewhere else.
‘If the Japanese decided to open a cultural centre across from Pearl Harbour, that would be insensitive. If the Germans opened a Bach choral society across from
Auschwitz, even after all these years, that would be an insensitive setting,’ he told the New York Post.
‘I have absolutely nothing against Islam. I just think, why here?’
But the organisation behind the mosque has said they picked the spot precisely because of its location near Ground Zero.
Building a mosque 'where a piece of the wreckage fell.... sends the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the cleric leading the project, told the New York Times last year.
'We want to push back against the extremists,' Feisal, 61, added.
Director of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs Fatima Shama told the New York Times: 'We as New York Muslims have as much of a commitment to rebuilding New York as anybody.'
The FBI has also given Feisal its seal of approval after he helped them reach out to the Muslim population in the wake of the attacks.
'We've had positive interactions with him in the past,' a spokesman was quoted as saying.
Since the attacks, Ground Zero has become a shrine to the victims, with millions of visitors paying their respects every year.
Pamela Geller, executive director of the Stop Islamisation of America activist group, is organising the June 6 rally in protest against the development, which will be called Cordoba House.
She said: ‘What could be more insulting and humiliating than a monster mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Centre buildings that were brought down by an Islamic jihad attack?
‘Any decent American, Muslim or otherwise, wouldn’t dream of such an insult.’
But Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, said: ‘The time for a centre like this has come because Islam is an American religion.
‘We need to take the 9/11 tragedy and turn it into something very positive. It will also serve as a major platform for amplifying the silent voice of the majority of Muslims who have nothing to do with extremist ideologies.’
She added that up to 2,000 Muslims would be expected to pray at the mosque every Friday.
Herbert Ouida, whose son died in the attacks, said: ‘I understand the anger, the bitterness and hatred, but it only generates more hatred.’
A community board backed the project last week, but organisers are still seeking funding.
A radical cleric has called for the creation of a ‘Greater Iran’ that would rule over the Middle East and Central Asia. Hezbollah leader Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi said the formulation of an ‘Islamic United States’ would herald the coming of Islam’s messiah.
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Newest Oldest Best rated Worst rated View all I really hope this doesn't get given the go ahead. Its sick to even think of a Mosque being built here, why would anybody be so callous. And to think about starting the build on the anniversary is completely heartless.
I hope enough people protest . ITS NOT RACIST ITS COMMON SENSE!
- Amy, Derby, 17/5/2010 10:44
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Can we see some equality please?
Let's have the same amount of mosques in the US & UK as there are Christian churches in Iran & Iraq or Saudi Arabia.
Thanks.
- Dave Bedford, London UK, 17/5/2010 10:43
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How can they do this, this is just simply the WRONG place, that is just insult to injury. I bet they cry its agintst our human rights not to have one. This place should be left intouched for the families to visit.
Move it well away from here.
- Lucy, UK, 17/5/2010 10:43
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Mental
I hope the American people protest for all they're worth!
- Steph, Canterbury, 17/5/2010 10:41
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I have visited the World Trade Center site. It is a very solemn and special place. This arrogant and provocative plan is an abomination, and a callous insult to every victim and their families.
Allowing this is political correctness gone mad. It should be stopped. But not with Obama in the White House, I suppose.
- JUSTIN, London, UK, 17/5/2010 10:26
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What would be the chances of building a Christian church and social centre in a Islamist country? Probably not.
- malcolm fudge, hornchurch, 17/5/2010
Hello....? Have you even stepped out of 'Hornchurch' to make a comment like that? Pakistan is a Islamist and secular country and i can vouch for the fact that it has got some of the most beautiful churches in the world, St.Patricks Cathedral in Karachi, for example. Just google it and dont show your ignorance!
- Ali, Islamabad, Pakistan, 17/5/2010 10:25
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