Developer of Ground Zero Mosque Denies Deal To Move Park 51
Source: The Huffington Post
Pastor Terry Jones said Thursday that he decided to cancel his protest because the leader of a planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero has agreed to move its controversial location.
However, Imam Rauf, the leader of the proposed center did not make a deal and has never talked to Pastor Terry Jones, Park51 officials tell Huffington Post, adding that they are open to all solutions and that the proposed Islamic cultural center is open dialogue and reconciliation with the community in lower Manhattan.
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Pastor Jones Calls Off Koran Burning, Ground Zero Mosque May Be Moved
Source: ABC News
Pastor Terry Jones today canceled his plan to burn Korans at his Florida church after claiming he has struck a deal to with a New York Muslim cleric to relocate the mosque that has been planned to be built near Ground Zero in New York.
Jones emerged from his church in Gainesville, Fla., to announce the deal which he said came after days of prayer and said he viewed the tentative arrangement as “a sign from God.”
The fiery pastor said that Imam Abdel Rauf, the leader behind the Ground Zero mosque, will meet with him in New York on Saturday.
“We have agreed to cancel our event on Saturday,” he said.
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Source: AP / CBS News
Donald Trump is offering to buy out one of the major investors in the real estate partnership that controls the site near ground zero where a Muslim group wants to build a 13-story Islamic center.
In a letter released Thursday by Trump’s publicist, the real estate investor tells Hisham Elzanaty he would buy his stake in the lower Manhattan building for 25 percent more than whatever he paid.
Trump says he’s making the offer not because he thinks the location is spectacular but because it would end “a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation.”
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Source: Emily Friedman / ABC News
The White House is considering calling controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones to request that he not proceed with this Saturday’s scheduled Koran burning that has sparked fears of violence worldwide.
Jones has said he is willing to listen to a call from the White House, Pentagon or State Department, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said at the daily press briefing.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs “there are discussions about the possibility of doing that… I don’t know if a final decision has been made on that.”
When suggested that the president would not be making any calls to Jones, but said it was under discussion that “someone from inside the administration” would make an appeal.
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A radical Islamic activist and lawyer in the U.K. has called on Muslims worldwide to burn U.S. flags outside American embassies on Sept. 11, a “direct retaliation” against a Florida church’s plan to burn Qurans on the same day.
Anjem Choudary, former leader of the banned hardline Islamic group Islam4UK, told CBS News in London he was calling for, “an international burn the Stars and Stripes day” on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Choudary, who regularly organizes small demonstrations in Britain calling for the implementation of Islamic law, was the first public figure — and a likely one — to call for retaliation against Gainesville, Fla. Reverend Terry Jones’ plans to burn at least 100 Qurans.
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