“It’s important for a Muslim voice from the Muslim faith to speak out and say it’s wrong to build a house
of worship right across the street from the very site where people
of part
of the same faith killed New Yorkers,” said Raheel Raza, a member of the Muslim Canadian Congress.
“It’s not what I call tolerance.”
Imam Faisal Rauf, organizer of the Cordoba House Initiative, which is building the mosque, has said he hopes being in that location will build bridges and promote tolerance.