reporter: new york s mayor michael bloomberg rejects that. the government should never, never be in the business of telling people how they should pray or where they can pray. reporter: imam fazal was out of the country, unvrabavailable comment. a spokeswoman said it would give moderate muslims a voice. deb feyerick is joining us. i want to ask you about the funding issue. gubernatorial candidate rick glaxo did raise that as we saw in your piece, but why is this an issue, what is driving it? it s a big issue because right now the imam has not opened his books. he s been asked to do so. so far those requests have been ignored. although the developer said everything is going to be transparent, what s happening is there s even sort of a move to even change what it s being called. it s no longer a mosque and cultural center, now it s being called park 51. so there s sort of there s a way of this being pushed through. but for somebody like lazio, he s simply concerned funding is