[[File:Ground Zero Mosque1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Proposed location of the Ground Zero Mosque (red target) on Park Place near Broadway, Manhatten Island, New York City. A completed, multi-story mosque would have it facing in the direction of the site of the World Trade Center just three blocks south, where nearly three thousand died in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] by Islamic fanatics.]]
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[[File:Ground Zero Mosque1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Proposed location of the Ground Zero Mosque (red target) on Park Place near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City. A completed, multi-story mosque would have it facing in the direction of the site of the World Trade Center just two blocks south, where nearly three thousand died in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] by Islamic fanatics.]]
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The '''"Ground Zero Mosque"''' (officially '''Park51''' and formerly the '''Cordoba House''') is a proposed [[Muslim]] [[Mosque|mosque]] under construction two blocks away from the former [[World Trade Center]], which [[Muslims]] destroyed on [[9/11]], killing almost 3000 people.<ref name="dailymail1">[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1303463/Obama-backtracks-Ground-Zero-mosque.html Obama backtracks on Ground Zero Mosque]]</ref> The plans are a collaboration between the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), a Muslim organization created in the aftermath of 9/11 to promote "integration and tolerance based on Islamic values of compassion."<ref name="aol">[http://www.aolnews.com/article/ground-zero-mosque-rebuttal-the-9-11-christian-center/19556400 Ground Zero Mosque Rebuttal]</ref>The vast majority of Americans oppose the plan as "insensitive" to the families of the 9/11 victims. <ref name="aol"></ref>
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The '''"Ground Zero Mosque"''' (officially '''Park51''' and formerly the '''Cordoba House''') is a proposed [[Muslim]] [[Mosque|mosque]] under construction two blocks away from the former [[World Trade Center]], which [[Muslims]] destroyed on [[9/11]], killing almost 3000 people.<ref name="dailymail1">[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1303463/Obama-backtracks-Ground-Zero-mosque.html Obama backtracks on Ground Zero Mosque]]</ref> The plans are a collaboration between the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), a Muslim organization created in the aftermath of 9/11 to promote "integration and tolerance based on Islamic values of compassion."<ref name="aol">[http://www.aolnews.com/article/ground-zero-mosque-rebuttal-the-9-11-christian-center/19556400 Ground Zero Mosque Rebuttal]</ref> The vast majority of Americans oppose the plan as "insensitive" to the families of the 9/11 victims.<ref name="aol"></ref>