{"id":1081,"date":"2010-08-20T20:58:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T01:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2010-08-20T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T01:58:48","slug":"ground-zero-mosque-imam-rauf-new-york-is-the-capital-of-the-world-and-this-location-close-to-911-is-iconic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Ground Zero Mosque Imam Rauf:  &#8216;New York is the capital of the world and this location close to 9\/11 is iconic.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Spencer, the JihadWatch blogger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The idea here that will be widely understood is that this mosque is another triumphal mosque, another victory mosque [like] the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the site of the Temple Mount and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus,&#8221; Spencer told WND today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason for the interest in this property in particular is its iconic status in relation to the 9\/11 attacks. This is something the Imam Rauf has said himself. It&#8217;s not something I&#8217;m attributing to him,&#8221; Spencer explains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his own words he said, &#8216;New York is the capital of the world and this location close to 9\/11 is iconic.&#8217; He was happy that his mosque would be at the site of the building [where] the wreckage fell on 9\/11,&#8221; Spencer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=193637\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=193637<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Spencer, the JihadWatch blogger: &#8220;The idea here that will be widely understood is that this mosque is another triumphal mosque, another victory mosque [like] the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the site of the Temple Mount and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus,&#8221; Spencer told WND today. &#8220;The reason for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}