The mosque and oil

08/30/2010
The oil and gas industry has strong interests in the ugly controversy over plans to build a Muslim activities center two blocks from Ground Zero—the New York site of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Wishing that the furor would die on its own is, nevertheless, understandable.Plans announced by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf for a 13-story, $100 million facility in Lower Manhattan arouse passions, and passions inflame politics. Topping a long list of passions is the sensitivity of survivors of the 2,974 persons killed by the Muslim terrorists, most of whom were from Saudi Arabia. Close behind is the residual trauma of New Yorkers who witnessed mass murder in their city. And right behind ...

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