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and the big debate really is over how muslims have engaged with the american community. you re living that right now. so let s walk back to the very onginning. when did you sett tle upon this location, which is just about two bloc north of ground zero, for your new islamic cultural center? f emy that particulaspot? first, i must remind f everybody i ve been imam of a mosque just ten blocks from that spot, 12 blocks from ground zero. i ve been serving that community and that neighborhood for the last quarter of a century. when 9/11 happened, we couldn t reach our mosque in the tribeca area. you know, and finally we came back. there was flowers, letters. we re part of this community. i ve served this commu. and this is a community that i have worked for so long and is important for us as muslims, as muslims who are in lower manhattan, to want to give back to the city and the country that s given us so much. so why that particular spot? well, what happened was sharif el gamel, the ....