Opposition is "metastasized antisemitism," community center planner says. Aug. 22, 2010— -- Protesters went head to head today at the site of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground ...

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Writing today in The New York Post, Amir Taheri — the distinguished Iranian-born journalist — manages to move the debate over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” forward several notches. Anyone who ...

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Revisiting one of the first big stories on the now controversial Islamic center near ground zero, a New York Times piece from last December titled “Muslim Prayers Fuel Spiritual Rebuilding at Ground ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A group of Jewish activists and community leaders voiced their support for a planned mosque near ground zero and said opponents, including the nation's leading Jewish civil rights ...

The former leader of a controversial effort to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site has settled a lawsuit in which a donor accused him of steering charitable funds to personal use, ...

"World News" wants to know what you think. Share your comments below. Aug. 20, 2010— -- Nearly nine years after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan, the site ...

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The ground zero mosque controversy is drummed up by anti-Islam, anti-Muslim and anti-Obama religious fanatics and right wing politicians, each with their own agenda. The anti-Islam and anti-Muslim ...