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...It was the vision of her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, that first set in motion plans to build Cordoba House or Park51, a community centre and mosque a few blocks from the epicentre of the 9/11 attacks...
...Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is also the founder of the Cordoba Initiative, named after the famous medieval city in Muslim Spain which was a beacon of religious tolerance and understanding centuries before the...
...In envisioning the mosque’s new metamorphosis as a house of prayer and cultural centre, American-born developer Sharif El-Gamal and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a naturalised American, have a grand vision for...
...Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the controversial Islamic centre and mosque to be built near Ground Zero, said on Monday that relocating the project is an option and that if he foresaw the firestorm...
...You describe Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the principal backer of the mosque, as a “moderate” but he refuses to denounce all Islamist terrorism and he declines to say who is funding his mosque....
...The imam leading the prayers was Feisal Abdul Rauf, a Columbia University physics graduate, who had moved to New York as a teenager....
...He told a press conference he would be flying to New York on Saturday to meet Faisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the centre. “He has agreed to move the location,” Mr Jones said....
...Any chance to strengthen moderates, such as Abdul Faisal Rauf, the imam behind Park 51, is worth seizing....
...Most newspaper accounts of Manhattan’s mosque project have lauded its leader, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf....
...“The controversy has had a negative impact on us as individuals,” said Daisy Khan, spokeswoman for Park 51 and the wife of Faisal Abdul Rauf, the mosque’s future imam....
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