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A Mosque Near Ground Zero (Postscript)

by Perry Dane
Published on August 17, 2010 in Perry Dane. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

In 1657, Peter Stuyvesant, the Governor of New Netherland (now New York), who had no patience for religious diversity, got wind of the presence of Quakers in the settlement at Flushing.  He ordered the town officials in Flushing to hand over the Quakers for arrest.  The officials refused.  They wrote Stuyvesant a letter, the Flushing [...]

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