Jewish group says putting a mosque near Ground Zero will cause 'more pain'
Saturday, July 31, 2010
NEW YORK
Putting mosque near Ground Zero is 'not right'
The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group opposes the planned mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the project and the location is "counterproductive to the healing process."
The Anti-Defamation League said it rejects any opposition to the center based on bigotry and acknowledged that the group behind the plan, the Cordoba Initiative, has the legal right to build at the site. But the ADL said "some legitimate questions have been raised" about funding and possible ties with "groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values."
"Ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right," the ADL said in a statement. "In our judgment, building an Islamic center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain -- unnecessarily -- and that is not right." The Cordoba Initiative did not comment Friday.
The mosque and community center would be located two blocks from the Lower Manhattan site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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