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Imam: I Wouldn't Have Picked the Mosque Site If I'd Known Fight It Would Cause

The imam in the middle of the Ground Zero mosque controversy said Sunday he would never have picked that location if he knew it would create the conflict it did, but he has no plan to move the Islamic center from the proposed site two blocks from where the World Trade Center fell.

In a recent poll taken by the Washington Post, 49 percent of respondents said they had an unfavorable view of Islam.

But Giuliani said Islamophobia has nothing to do with moving the mosque, which he argued is on "sacred ground."....

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