Moving a Muslim community centre and place of worship from its planned location near ground zero could fuel extremist violence, the imam behind the project said.Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said America's national security was at stake in how it handles the so-called Cordoba House, a 100-million-dollar centre which has stirred raw emotions in the United States. "If we move from that location, the story will be the radicals have taken over the discourse," the imam told CNN in his first televised interview since returning from a two-week State Department-sponsored cooperation tour of the Middle East. "The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack."But he opened the door to compromise, saying that "nothing is off the table" when it comes to moving the site of the planned centre. "We are consulting, talking to various people about how to do this so that we negotiate the best and safest option." Acknowledging the uproar that has swelled over the Muslim cultural centre planned to be set up just two blocks from where the World Trade Centre once stood, the imam said he would have reconsidered the plan if he had foreseen the scale of the controversy. "If I knew this would happen, this would cause this kind of pain, I wouldn't have done it," he said, without specifying whether he would have changed the location. "We would not have done something that would create more divisiveness." Abdul Rauf portrayed his group's fight to set up the centre as a battle between the "moderates" and "radicals" on both sides of the debate.He also urged a small Florida church to reconsider its plans to go ahead with a the Holy Quran burning ceremony to mark Saturday's ninth anniversary of 9/11, a move that has fuelled growing fears it will ignite a fresh wave of anti-Muslim sentiment and extremist violence that could endanger US troops. "It is something that is not the right thing to do," the imam said. "With freedom comes responsibility," he added. "This is dangerous to our national security and is also the un-Christian thing to do.... Jesus said to love your enemy. We are not your enemy."