New York Mosque Controversy Fires Up National Campaign

August 02, 2010
FoxNews.com

It's a case of right vs. right.

That's the position of the Anti-Defamation League on the construction of a 15-story, $100 million mosque and community center scheduled near New York City's Ground Zero.

The sponsors of the construction project have "every right to build at the site," the ADL said, noting the "bigotry that some have expressed in attacking” the building’s proprietors. the rest

Aside from well-known Republican personalities like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin weighing in, one North Carolina congressional candidate, a former Marine named Ilario Pantano, has begun campaigning on the issue.

"It is not about reconciliation or understanding. It is about marking religious, ideological, and territorial conquest,” he wrote in a June 18 op-ed that Pantano’s campaign re-circulated over the weekend. This mosque is a Martyr-Marker honoring the terrorists who less than a decade ago killed thousands of us just two blocks away, and it must be stopped."

ACLU praises Muslim center near Ground Zero