Ground Zero Mosque Applies for $5 Million Grant

From hotair.com - Read this in full here or you’ll miss the enjoyable tone of befuddlement and dismay from professional centrist John Avlon, who clearly wants to defend Park51 from those darned wingnuts who object to the location and yet can’t understand why the developers would do something this tone-deaf. The smart move would have been to take advantage of the calm after the media storm to quietly fundraise among private donors and to reach out to wavering pols to reassure them about the project’s intentions. Instead, not only are they after public money, they’re trying to tap a fund that’s explicitly tied to 9/11. You wanted to know where the funding’s coming from. Well, good news: Potentially, it’s coming from you. Full story here

Ground Zero Mosque Applies for $5 Million Grant