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Mosque Planner Says Opposition Goes 'Beyond Islamophobia' AUGUST 22, 2010, 8:06 P.M. ET
グラウンド・ゼロ近辺のモスク建設計画者、「反対派はイスラム嫌悪をこえて、ムスリム憎悪」と発言
WASHINGTON?A leader of a planned Muslim community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero compared opposition to the
project to the persecution of Jews, in comments that could add to the controversy over the center's proposed site.
Supporters and opponents of a proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque near the World Trade Center site staged
competing rallies in downtown Manhattan. Jon Decker reports. Video Courtesy of Reuters.
"We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized antisemitism," said Daisy Khan, who is spearheading the
project with her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. "It's beyond Islamophobia. It's hate of Muslims."
マンハッタンのグラウンド・ゼロ近辺にムスリム・コミニティ・センターの建設を計画している、イマムFeisal Abdul Raufの婦人
Daisy Khanは「我々は事態を深く憂慮するもので、これは反ユダヤ主義と同じような癌のようなものだ」「反対運動はイスラム
嫌悪の度を超えていて、ムスリム憎悪というべき」と述べた。
The words could further inflame an already angry debate about the proposed location of the community center, which
opponents denounce as a "victory mosque." Rival protests for and against the $100 million center were planned in lower
Manhattan on Sunday.
この発言は国内の激しい議論に、火に油を注ぐようなことになりそうで、モスク建設反対派は計画されたコミニティ・センター
を「（イスラム）勝利のモスク」と呼んでいる。
Some politicians, including New York Governor David Paterson, have called for the project to be moved further away from
the area where the World Trade Center collapsed. On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) also
suggested the mosque's location should be changed.
ユーヨーク州知事David Patersonはプロジェクトの建設場所をWTCのあった場所から遠ざけるように呼びかけており、共和党
の上院総務Mitch McConnellもモスク建設の場所を変更するよう求めている（後略）