Fox and Friends Asks: Mosque Near Ground Zero “Great Idea Or Great Insult?”

 

Plans to build a mosque two blocks away from “Ground Zero” in lower Manhattan have started a fierce debate and opened some some emotional wounds from the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. The subject came up on Fox and Friends today, and a spirited, yet civil, discussion ensued between a New York Firefighter Tim Brown (who was a first responder at the World Trade Center) and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the founder of the Cordoba Institute which presented the plans. Watch the clip and take a poll – after the jump.




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