No Islamic Community Center at Ground Zero?

As this piece in the NYT points out, some of the estimated 60 Muslims who were killed on 9/11 were praying in the Muslim prayer room that existed on the 17th floor of the south tower:

Given the vitriolic opposition now to the proposal to build a Muslim community center two blocks from ground zero, one might say something else has been destroyed: the realization that Muslim people and the Muslim religion were part of the life of the World Trade Center.

Dalai Lama Statement on Cage Free Eggs

(dated August 26, 2010) Click to embiggen.