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Supporters and opponents of a proposed Islamic community center built in Lower Manhattan faced off Sunday. They staged dueling rallies near the proposed facility, which is to be built about two blocks from the site of the fallen World Trade Center. Opponents who advocate relocating it or dropping the plan altogether feel it would be…