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Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and human rights activist, has said that the Ground Zero mosque site should be made an interfaith center:

Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel spoke last week to the Charlotte Observer about current events. Among other things, Wiesel spoke of the “Ground Zero mosque" planned for downtown Manhattan.

Wiesel suggested that the mosque and Muslim community center, which is to be built a short distance from the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack, be made into an interfaith project.

“I would speak to the imam and tell him, 'Look, I don't doubt that your intentions are good. Nevertheless, you've divided the community. Why not unite it?'” Wiesel said. He added that someone from his foundation had been sent to speak to the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, and get his opinion.

Wiesel usually has some good ideas, but this is something I must disagree on, if only because leftists are likely to use that whole notion of interfaith for propaganda purposes, which in fact, interfaith is, depending on how you see it.

And he shouldn't be recognizing a man like Rauf who's supported terrorism either.

The site must be a memorial center for the victims of 9-11.

Labels: anti-americanism, islam, jihad, New York, terrorism, United States