9/11 anniversary: New York Muslims insist that they are American too

New York City woke up yesterday to a 9/11 anniversary like no other. Blue skies hummed with the buzz of helicopters as police conducted a major operation to patrol two rival midday protests about Park51, the planned Islamic centre close to Ground Zero. The noise of the aircraft mingled with the sound of church bells ringing across Manhattan, marking the exact time that the first plane struck the W

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「The protesters against the Islamic centre later gathered to hear the right-wing blogger Pamela Geller, who has spearheaded the drive against the project, as well as a host of Republican politicians.」

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911・イスラム関連　"It is a piece of classic immigrant thinking" "In New York, the Muslim community is at least 600,000" "There has not been this level of antagonism since right after 9/11" "If Park51 were moved, how far would be far enough?"