CNN's Fareed Zakaria weighs in on the proposed Muslim cultural center near Ground Zero.
Fareed Zakaria, the CNN host and Newsweek columnist, has returned a prestigious prize to the Anti-Defamation League, another rebuke for the esteemed civil rights group's opposition to an Islamic center near ground zero.
Another step clears for a mosque and Islamic center to be built near ground zero. CNN's Jason Carroll reports.
Now that the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has denied landmark status for a building, near "ground zero," that could house a proposed Islamic center and mosque, the Muslim organization behind the project says it will begin moving forward with efforts to make the building "a model for community service and engagement."
A proposal to build an Islamic center near The World Trade Center site has opposition, as Deb Feyerick reports.
In June, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the proposed ground zero mosque, was asked on live radio if he believed Hamas is a terrorist organization.
A leading opponent of a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero is asking a question that looms as large as the towers that stood nearby less than nine years ago: "Why there?"
Emotions run high over a proposal to build a mosque near the World Trade Center site. CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports.
The proposal by the Cordoba Initiative to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero has drawn major media attention and engendered fierce debate. Right-wing political commentators, politicians, hard-line Christian ministers, bloggers and some families of 9/11 victims have charged that it is insensitive to 9/11 families, dishonors memories of the victims and will be a "monument to terrorism."
CNN's Allan Chernoff talks to the man behind an ad aimed at keeping a mosque from being built near Ground Zero.
New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a hearing Tuesday to decide whether a century-old building near ground zero is worth preserving.
Emotions ran high at a community meeting when leaders approved a plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero. WABC reports.
Protesters gathered in lower Manhattan mid-day Sunday to demonstrate against plans to build a mosque near the site of Ground Zero, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed by Islamist hijackers on September 11, 2001.
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