IMAM RAUF
January/February 2011
The Ground Zero mosque debate shows America, like Britain, pursuing the chimera of attempting to reform Islam
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January/February 2011
ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS
For the past week I have been in New York, and on Tuesday took the afternoon to visit Ground Zero and Park51, the site of the Cordoba Initiative's proposed Islamic centre.
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