According to the Christian Science Monitor, residents from California to Tennessee are opposed to mosques.
Several proposed Islamic centres, including one near Ground Zero, have touched off a heated nationwide debate that raises questions about the state of religious tolerance in post-9/11 America.
A planned mosque and Islamic centre, just a stone's throw away from the World Trade Center site, even prompted former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to send a series of Twitter posts on Sunday asking peace-seeking Muslims to 'Pls reject it in the interest of healing'.
The possibility of an Islamic centre in California compelled a Baptist minister, whose church would sit next door to the mosque, to compare the plan to putting cats and
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