Ground Zero mosque backers can legally build the proposed mosque mere blocks from the worst attack from Islamist terrorists in this nation’s history. That’s not in dispute. But will anyone physically ...

At the Capitol on Thursday, three United States senators weighed in on the decision to build an Islamic cultural center mere blocks from the site of worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. When ...

NEW YORK ― Building an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan was always ambitious ― not because the organizers anticipated it would be controversial, but because they wanted it to be a first of its kind.

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Sen. Robert Menendez spent years helping the Egyptian-American imam behind the controversial ground zero mosque — a plan the embattled Democrat later championed. Menendez, 69, was indicted on federal ...

NEW YORK - The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, "Say no to racist ...

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Regarding Richard Cohen's Aug. 3 column http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080203721.html, "Gingrich vs. 'they' at Ground Zero," on ...