MAIL ONLINE: Hundreds of protesters rallied near the site of a proposed mosque and Muslim community centre near Ground Zero in New York yesterday.
A crowd of demonstrators against the project stood behind police barricades three blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Bruce Springsteen's anti-war song Born In The USA blared over loudspeakers as patriotic mosque opponents chanted, 'No mosque, no way!
Brooklyn plumber Steve Ayling says the people who want to build the project are the same ones who 'took down the twin towers.'
Nearby, several hundred people who support the mosque chanted: 'Muslims are welcome here. We say no to racist fear.'
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