Mosque Sponsors

For mosque sponsors, early missteps fueled storm

Joy Levitt, executive director of the Jewish Community Center  on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, remembers her first conversation with Daisy Khan around 2005, years before Ms. Khan's idea for a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan morphed into a controversy about Sept. 11, Islam and freedom of religion. "Strollers," said Ms. Levitt, w...