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Why was this particular site selected? Because the need for a $100 million mosque is so great? Because 45-47 Park Place is the only place left in Manhattan to put a mosque? No. Because it will make a powerful political and religious statement.

 

Americans need to understand that the soul of this so-called community center will be an altar to the god that justified and mandated the 9/11 massacre. If allowed to proceed unopposed, it will stand as a bold affirmation of the same Qur’an quoted on camera by 19 fedayeen as they prepared to kill themselves and thousands of innocent men and women.

If Cordoba and other Muslim organizations in America would like to “do a huge amount of good,” let them build a hospital instead of a mosque. Build something that will help the families of the 9/11 victims. Do something productive for humanity in general, instead of challenging liberty and confusing people about the realities of Islam. This is how they can generate good will, not by building a rock of offense two blocks from Ground Zero.

Aharonov, 78, is an emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University who became famous as one of the two namesakes of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, together with physicist David Bohm, describing a phenomenon in which particles are influenced by forces far removed from them.

Yariv is currently on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, where he specializes in electro-optics. In the 1970s, together with two of his students, Yariv established Ortel Corporation, a manufacturer of components for cable television. Ortel was sold in 2000 to the American communications equipment maker Lucent Technologies for $2.95 billion.