When Mayor Michael Bloomberg strongly defended the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero last August even as polls showed most New Yorkers opposed the project, he garnered some favorable media coverage and praise for his stance.
A New York Times editorial called Bloomberg “the leader with the courage to make the case” for the center. [...]
DAISY KHAN had never seen so many Jews in her life. The year was 1974, and Ms. Khan, an awkward, artistic 16-year-old who had just emigrated from India to the suburban Long Island enclave of Jericho, N.Y., was attending her first day of school in America.
It was not going well.
Her fellow students giggled [...]
On Friday, Sept. 17, The Oak Ridger published “Another local take on the ‘Ground Zero Mega Mosque,’” Bill Grimmell’s response to my Sept. 6 article, “Branding, Denying Freedoms Is a Risk to All.” Believing the issues involved too important to dismiss, I would like to respond to his assessment of my words.
First, the words [...]
NEW YORK – Muslim voters living in New York’s 13th Congressional District are unhappy with the choice they have to make on Election Day. Park51 – the proposed mosque and Muslim cultural center near ground zero – is one of the most important issues for Muslim Americans in the district, which includes Staten Island and part [...]
As a recent graduate of Washington and Lee University, I just began interning for World Faith and Religious Freedom USA; and now fully immersed in the issues of these organizations, I thought I’d share my perspective on the increasingly pertinent debate surrounding the Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan, beginning with this quote:
“Civilization will not [...]
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