NEW YORK (AP) — Some 300 people gathered in New York’s Times Square to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslims’ role in homegrown terrorism.
People at the rally Sunday were carrying signs reading “Today I am a Muslim, too.”
They heard from the imam who was an initial key supporter of plans to develop a mosque near ground zero.
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