New York (CNN) -- A leading opponent of a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero is asking a question that looms as large as the towers that stood nearby less than nine years ago: "Why there?" Pamela Geller, a conservative blogger who leads a group called Stop the Islamicization of America, posed the question on CNN's "American Morning" Wednesday. "We feel that it is a cemetery and sacred ground and the dead should be honored," Geller said. "To build a 13-story mega mosque on the cemetery, on the site of the largest attack in American history, I think, is incredibly insensitive."
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Emotions flare during a meeting of the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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The commission's vote is expected in August
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If the commission rules that the building is not worth saving, the mosque project can proceed
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The mosque is to be built near the site of the destroyed twin towers
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