In case you live in an area served by a newspaper that does not subscribe to the Associated Press wire, or you never watch television news, here’s an AP story that spells out some of the facts about the Muslim cultural center planned for lower Manhattan.
AP reporter Calvin Woodward says, Islam is already very much a part of the World Trade Center neighborhood, Muslims already pray at an interfaith chapel inside the Pentagon, and “the imam who's being branded an extremist has been valued by both Republican and Democratic administrations as a moderate face of the faith.”
Here’s a link to the entire story, Fact Check: Islam already part of WTC neighborhood, as it appeared in the Washington Post:
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