On the streets of lower Manhattan, there's no mistaking how the passions flow: One side saying its their patriotic duty to block a planned Islamic center and the other insisting America cannot curtail freedoms as revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks.
But in the Middle East _ where the imam spearheading the plans is now touring on a U.S.-funded outreach mission _ the proposed mosque and community center near the former World Trade Center towers is viewed in less stark tones.
Much of it circles back to what the showdown says about Islam's identity in the West, theories about the roots of Islamophobia or even whether the plans in New York are worth the fight.
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