I used to get invited to speak with powerful people all over the world – government officials in Europe, university administrators in India, royals in the Middle East, about how America is a country where so many people of different religions live together in relative peace and trust.
After the madness of this past summer [...]
My usual year-in-review piece is a countdown of the top stories of the year in religious liberty. And to be sure, 2010 had its share of good ones, including the most recent news that President Barack Obama finally issued an executive order implementing many of the constitutional safeguards recommended by the Advisory [...]
A leading American Islamic official has cheered the National Council of Churches (NCC) for its advocacy of a controversial Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan, suggesting that the ecumenical council turned to his organization for instruction on how to respond to skeptics of the project often referred to as the “GroundZero mosque”. He also proposed that [...]
The recent news that Park 51, the organization behind the Islamic Cultural Center in Lower Manhattan, has applied for funding through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) has unleashed yet another torrent of outrage.
From Rep. Peter King (R-NY), ”It is entirely wrong for any taxpayer money to be used to fund the ground zero mosque…this [...]
TheGallup organization has released polling data on how the members of various faith communities would resolve tensions around the construction of an Islamic center planned for a site three blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York City. Among the most interesting things about these statistics is that there [...]
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