Ground Zero Mosque: Olive Branch or ‘Soft Jihad’?|CBN
NEW YORK, N.Y. — The construction of a mosque has been approved near Ground Zero that has many people, especially family members of 9/11 victims, upset.Critics say it’s not so much the mosque itself they find objectionable, but the location.
Eight and a half years after September 11, 2001, people still come to pay their respects and remember the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost when radical Muslims flew two hijacked American airliners into the World Trade Center towers. It was the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil. Today the Cordoba Institute’s Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is pushing forward with a new mosque and community center near Ground Zero which he says will help bridge the gap and bring healing between Muslims and non-Muslims.
