Imam Of Proposed Ground Zero Mosque Breaks Silence
After months of keeping quiet, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is responding to criticism about the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero.
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After months of keeping quiet, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is responding to criticism about the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero.
As hard-hats hammered and drilled under a hot sun Tuesday, city and state leaders celebrated the progress that has been made at Ground Zero just days before the ninth anniversary of 9/11.
He called for a one week moratorium on the controversial debate.
Both supporters and opponents of a proposed Islamic cultural center should stand against rallies planned for the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, groups representing some relatives of attack victims said Thursday.
The city's annual remembrance of the day terrorists attacked the WTC has always been a somber affair, but dueling demonstrations over the Ground Zero mosque are scheduled for Sept. 11.
Rauf returns at a time of increased worry over just where the money for Park51 is coming from.
Despite assurances from its developer, an overwhelming number of New Yorkers want prosecutors to keep tabs on the financing for the proposed mosque and cultural center near Ground Zero.
Community Board-1 President Julie Menin intially voted in favor of the proposed Islamic center. That was before the project mushroomed into a divisive, paralyzing discourse.
The imam spearheading a proposed Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York says the fierce opposition is closely linked to the U.S. elections in November.
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An army of construction workers has been installing steel and pouring concrete at the site of the 9/11 memorial.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has formally approved a deal with the World Trade Center site's developer over how to help pay for two towers there.
Governor Paterson and Archbishop Timothy Dolan were scheduled to meet Tuesday over the controversy over the proposed Ground Zero mosque.
When her EMT son went missing in the days after 9/11, Talat Hamdani traveled to Mecca to pray that he was safe -- hoping authorities could have thought him a suspect because of his Muslim background and detained him.
President Barack Obama says he has "no regrets'' over the comments he made about the right of Muslims to build an Islamic center near the former site of the World Trade Center.
Staten Island's soaring tribute to victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks has been vandalized, again.
For the thousands of New Yorkers who live and work around the site that may become home to the propsoed mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, it's about much more than talking points.
The 9/11 memorial is scheduled to be open for next year's 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, but the site is already taking shape.
The Senate's top Democrat says a mosque should not be built near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Gov. David Paterson said Wednesday that developers of an Islamic cultural center that would include a mosque near ground zero have rejected his offer to help them find a different site.
For many New Yorkers, it will become a new place to remember, reflect and pay tribute to those who lost their lives on 9/11.
There is a bus ad paid for by a group that is against building a mosque at ground zero, and it is sparking a heated debate.
A church that was completely destroyed during the collapse of the World Trade Towers on 9/11 is facing some bureaucratic hang-ups in trying to get approval for its rebuilding.
An 18th century ship found buried near the World Trade Center site is on its way to Maryland to be treated and reassembled.
Did Congress turn its back on the heroes sickened at Ground Zero? The anger and finger-pointing escalated Friday after explosive tirades on Capitol Hill.
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For weeks, there have been protests inside and outside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark. One woman whose husband is inside is scheduled to give birth Thursday. She just wants him to come home.
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A prediction market reported former U.S. Rep. George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he'd be going to President Trump's State of the Union address, then bet against his own attendance, the Associated Press reported.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and MTA CEO Janno Lieber unveiled a massive transportation security plan Thursday to make sure World Cup matches are the best they can be.
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