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NYC: Protesters demonstrate for, against 'Ground Zero' mosque

NYC: Protesters demonstrate for, against 'Ground Zero' mosque
Sunday 22, 2010


NEW YORK (AFP)---Several hundred protesters staged rival demonstrations Sunday for and against plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks, some brandishing signs against Islam and others denouncing religious bigotry.   

Though small in scale, the street protests reflect an intensifying national debate that has exposed a raw nerve over US attitudes toward Islam nearly...

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