Besides the fact its replacing a
mosque thats even CLOSER to ground zero, besides the fact it has only one
prayer room [its an interfaith center, not a
mosque], and despite the fact many muslims died in the WTC attack, the opponents play the «Its too close» card.
The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries,
mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for
prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock -
rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.