At the site of the tragedy of September 11th to build a mosque Bashny.Net

Some places the September 11 attacks in New York City can build a mosque and Islamic cultural center.

Public Council of New York has approved a plan to build 29 votes, whereas there was only against one person and 10 council members abstained, which caused controversy. Some believe that the cultural center will be a monument to the September 11 attacks. Relatives of the victims complain that the building is planned to be built too close to the place where the people were killed.
The initiator of the construction of a mosque imam is known in the United States promoter of Islam Faisal Abdul Rauf (Feisal Abdul Rauf). He bought a building for the future mosque for $ 5 million, located a few hundred meters from the site Ground Zero, where the twin towers stood. Besides the mosque Faisal Abdul Rauf is planning to build a 13-storey Islamic cultural center. It is planned that the mosque, the construction of which is estimated at $ 150 million, it will open the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack.
Supporters of a positive decision of the City Public Council believe that the mosque would be a symbol of rejection of terrorism by most Muslims. Opponents see it as a memorial to Islamic terrorists. June 6 in New York, to be held a protest against the construction of the mosque.

(telegraph)





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