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Landmarks Hearing for "Ground Zero Mosque" Building Turns Raucous
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Emotions ran high Tuesday afternoon at Hunter College, where people were boiling mad at the possibility of a mosque and Islamic cultural center being built near Ground Zero.
The city's Landmark Preservation Commission is considering landmark designation for the building on Park Place where the mosque is to be built, so held a open hearing Tuesday at Hunter to hear from the public.
"How can we allow something to eradicate that memory - the pain and suffering," said attendee Barbara Sommer of Brooklyn.
But New Yorkers on both sides of the issue demanded their voices be heard.
"The villains who did this to our country do not represent Islam in any way whatsoever," said New Yorker Zead Ramadan, who is Muslim.
Muslim Americans, still feeling the heat for the vicious attacks of September 11, 2001, point out that they were carried out by a small cadre of zealots.
But families of 9/11 victims were downright offended.
"It should be a landmark building. It should not be a mosque," said Linda Rivera of Manhattan.
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