70% of NYers demand: Move the GZ mosque!: The fight over a mosque close to Ground Zero could help form the future of Islam in America, the project's manager said yesterday -- as a new poll found that seven of 10 New Yorkers want him to voluntarily change place the controversial project.
"The narrative has long-drawn-out far beyond a piece of real estate, it has prolonged to the issues of Islam in America and what it earnings for us," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said in Dubai, the final stop on his State Department-sponsored trip to the Persian Gulf.
"The capacity of the discourse has lingering rapidly in a term which is also politicized," said Rauf, who earlier this week claim the argument over the mosque was being fueled by election-year government.
Through a meeting at the Dubai School of Government yesterday, Rauf warned that the debate and public tumult could spill over to set the manner for wider views toward Muslims in America -- bar he said it's not a skirmish between faiths.
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