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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010, in New York. Rauf is now in the midst of a polarizing political, religious and cultural debate over his plans for a multi-story Islamic center that will feature a mosque, health club and theater about two blocks north of ground zero in New York.

Imam says resolution to NYC mosque debate in works

Last updated Monday, September 13, 2010 - 12:20pm

NEW YORK -- The imam leading the effort to build an Islamic center and mosque near the World Trade Center site said Monday that a resolution to the raging debate over its location is being examined.

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9/11 politicized by mosque, Quran controversies

Beth Fouhy, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 10, 2010 - 2:55pm

NEW YORK -- For almost a decade, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber reflection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. Not this time.

This year's commemoration of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa., promises to be the most political and contentious ever because of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero and a Florida pastor's plan to burn the Quran -- and the debate those issues have engendered over religious freedom.

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FBI agents visit Florida church over Quran burn

Antonio Gonzalez, Mitch Stacy, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 12:24pm

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- FBI agents visited Thursday with a minister of a small Florida church that plans to burn the Quran on Sept. 11, as public safety became a paramount concern and President Barack Obama added his voice to the chorus of opposition.

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