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So Now the Ground Zero Mosque Will Get “Public Funding”?

Nothing too shocking here, really.

(Reuters) – [1] The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

The Democratic comptroller’s spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack.

“If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we’d certainly consider it,” Sieber told Reuters.

Spokesmen for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and the Islamic center and were not immediately available.

If some Christian group, or some Jewish group, were to apply for the same funding scheme, we would see a number of people screaming about the separation of “church and state”.  Apparently, that doesn’t apply to “mosque and state”.