AP’s Deputy Managing Editor for principles and manufacture, Tom Kent, sent this “guidance” out to his generation, with inputs from Chad Roedemeier in the New York bureau and Terry Hunt in Washington: “We should carry on to avoid the phrase ‘Ground Zero mosque’ or ‘mosque at Ground Zero’ on all stages. The site of the future Islamic center and mosque is not at Ground Zero, but two blocks away in a busy profitable area. We should continue to say it’s “near” Ground Zero, or two blocks away.”
Maybe Rauf used this moniker because his planned site for the mosque was part of the real estate assaulted and injured on 9/11 – the home of the Burlington Coat Factory until it was struck by a landing cog from a plane that struck one of the Twin Towers. Maybe he used that term to brand his “Cordoba House” since body parts from the victims of those attacks have been found all over Lower Manhattan, counting the old Burlington factory area, making it part of the hallowed ground.
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