{"id":41263,"date":"2010-08-17T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/17\/ground-zero-mosque-backed-by-ny-mayor\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T11:15:00","slug":"ground-zero-mosque-backed-by-ny-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/17\/ground-zero-mosque-backed-by-ny-mayor.html","title":{"rendered":"Ground Zero Mosque Backed by NY Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it would be “a sad day for America” if opponents successfully thwart plans for a mosque at Ground Zero, reports Telegraph.co.uk.<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg has been a constant supporter of the plan to built an Islamic centre and mosque two blocks from where the World Trade Center stood.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, President Barack Obama also backed the right for the developers to build a mosque there.<\/p>\n

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He added over the weekend that he was not commenting on the wisdom of building a mosque close to Ground Zero, but simply saying that they had a right to do so.<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg has been among a few outspoken elected officials supporting the plans.<\/p>\n

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Some have said it is insensitive because the terrorists who struck the buildings in 2001 were Islamic extremists, while others argue that it is a sign of American liberty and tolerance.<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg applauded President Obama for backing the mosque.<\/p>\n

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a constant supporter of the plan to built an Islamic centre and mosque two blocks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[596,598,597,594,595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}