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In the capital, Dhaka, thousands of protesters from an alliance of Islamic parties went on a protest rally soon after Friday prayers in the country's national mosque.
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On Sunday, August 22, the Coalition to Honor Ground Zero held a rally attended by thousands to protest the Ground Zero Mosque with widespread local, national and international media coverage.
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National opinion leaders came out against the mosque: on July 18 Sarah Palin stated her opposition by tweet, and on July 28, Newt Gingrich made his opposition to the Mosque and Shariah crystal clear in a historic speech.
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The landing gear was wedged between the back walls of the apartment building and the mosque, which once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech.
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In 1992, with the BJP's then-president in attendance, organized Hindu mobs destroyed the mosque--the first example of a national political party associating with a campaign of violence against a minority.
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Up to now, the members and volunteers of the BJP and the religious organizations working in tandem with it observe the anniversary of the mosque's demolition as a day of national awakening.
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The Coalition to Honor Ground Zero and other national and local groups began organizing to oppose the Ground Zero Mosque in the early Spring.
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But it was commissioned largely because secular-minded politicians were afraid that the sort of mosque that would appeal to traditionalists would not fit with the existing national parliament building a proud symbol of modernism.
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