'Ground Zero Mosque'

'Museum Of Tolerance' Director Opposes Mosque But Built Museum On Muslim Cemetery

Rachel Slajda | August 6, 2010, 5:57PM

The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles

The group behind the recently opened "Museum of Tolerance" museum in Manhattan has come out against a planned Islamic community center, which includes a mosque, near Ground Zero.

"Religious freedom does not mean being insensitive...or an idiot," Rabbi Meyer May, the Wiesenthal Center's executive director, told Crain's New York.

"Religion is supposed to be beautiful," he said. "Why create pain in the name of religion?"

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