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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A fresh appointed senior authority to the Islamic social edifice and masjid planned nearby the place of New York's Sept 11 attacks has stepped down, the center's developer said.

The advise came chronicle after remarks surfaced in which he said gayness was most ofttimes the termination of sexed abuse.

"Imam Abdallah Adhami declared today that he will no individual help as Senior Adviser to Park51," the project's developer, Sharif El-Gamal, said in a statement posted on Facebook.

The despair came just weeks after the project's open faces, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, stepped downbound as leaders of the project.

Shortly after Adhami entered the project, he came low blast for locution in an online reproval posted on the Web place of his non-profilt methodicalness Sakeenah, that "an enormously resistless percentage of people effort with gay feeling because of whatever modify of violent emotional or sexed shout at whatever saucer in their life."

Gay correct activists said the comments, first reportable by NY1 cable news on Jan 26, were harmful and played into outmoded stereotypes daylong debunked.

Opposition to the Park51 send proud last year after critics said its positioning was insensitive. Supporters said the critics themselves were existence intolerant of churchlike freedom.

The planned 13-story, $100 meg edifice could be eld absent from completion. It would be two blocks from "Ground Zero," where the Sept 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks toppled the Twin Towers, ending nearly 3,000.

El-Gamal said in his statement: "We have been humbled by Imam Adhami's contributions to this send ... We look forward to him, God willing, directive prayers informally for Park51 in the nearby future."

(Editing by Jerry Norton)

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