Allah most merciful, for whose forgiveness there is not a sin too large.
The above words are those of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
The Imam—and an unidentified Muslim group, which he represents—has paid $4.85 million dollars in cash to purchase the site of the old Burlington Coat Factory, located right around the corner from Ground Zero. An historic five-story building at 45 Park Place, it was damaged by wreckage from the landing gear of one of the passenger planes hijacked by jihadist Muslims, who cried “Allahu Akhbar” as they flew those planes into the nearby towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The Imam now plans to turn the site into a complete Islamic cultural center, which will cost upwards of $150 million and will include the mosque, a museum, gift-shops, and room for seminars to “reconcile” religions, to counteract the backlash against Muslims in general and “to extend a hand,” according to the Imam’s wife Daisy Khan, who told the German newspaper Spiegal that:
Only in New York City is this possible.
Indeed.
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