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An unexpected name has suddenly been thrown into the Ground Zero mosque debate: former President George W. Bush.
"I think it would be good if he stepped into the fray," said Ibrahim Hooper, the national spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), "and told other Republicans to cool it."
CAIR has been a primary leader in supporting the planned development of Cordoba House, an Islamic community center near Ground Zero that would include a mosque. Hooper told Fox Wednesday that he believes the former president would support the mosque plans, based on Bush's continual effort, during his administration, to separate the acts of the September 11 terrorists from the Islam religion as a whole.