Ground Zero Mosque
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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.
The Ground Zero Mosque (officially Park51 and formerly the Cordoba House) is a proposed Muslim mosque under construction two blocks away from the former World Trade Center, which Muslims destroyed on 9/11, killing almost 3000 people. [1]. The plans are a collaboration between the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement, a Muslim organization created in the aftermath of 9/11 to promote "integration and tolerance based on Islamic values of compassion."[2]The vast majority of Americans oppose the plan as "insensitive" to the families of the 9/11 victims. [2]
Sarah Palin said "To build a mosque at Ground Zero is a stab in the heart of the families of the innocent victims of those horrific attacks."[3]