Mosque going up in NYC building damaged on 9/11
Associated Press via Breitbart.com
5/6/2010
NEW YORK (AP) – A mosque and cultural center is planned near the World Trade Center site in a building damaged by airplane debris on Sept. 11.
A lower Manhattan community board committee said Wednesday that it supported the $100 million project. It is aimed at creating a space for the neighborhood’s growing Muslim population.
Supporters say the history associated with the damaged former department store was one reason to pick it. But some 9/11 victims’ families say the idea offends them.
Massapequa (mass-uh-PEE’-kwuh) resident Rosemary Cain lost a son on 9/11 and calls the plan “despicable.”
Two advocacy groups say the project would help improve relations between Muslims and the West.
This aerial photo of April 20, 2010, shows the New York city block, lower right, where a 13-story mosque is planned for construction two blocks north of the World Trade Center site, center left. The plan for the $100 million mosque and cultural center received initial support on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 from community board 1 in Lower Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
