New York City Mosque

City Council Powerless To Check NYPD Spy Unit

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS and MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.07.2011

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NEW YORK — Nobody in New York government has the expertise and authority to oversee the police department's secret intelligence operations, a le...

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Ground Zero Mosque: Group To Fight Vote Clearing Way For Islamic Community Center

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The debate over a planned Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero became a court fight Wednesday, as a conservative advo...

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Build Or Burn? It Hurts Some, But It Is Constitutional

Zareena A. Grewal, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zareena A. Grewal, Ph.D.

Our Constitution protects Muslims' rights to build the Cordoba Institute as well as Christians' rights to burn the Quran in protest of it.

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'Ground Zero Mosque' Controversy And The Pitfalls Of The Interfaith Dialogue Movement

David Shasha | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Shasha

That Jews and Arabs share a culture is a fact that stands in stark contrast with the idea that there is a primordial rupture between the peoples that has fed the endemic and corrosive violence that now permeates the region.

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The Controversy Over the NYC Mosque Shows We Really Don't Know Each Other Well Enough

Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy

As I followed the issue, I was struck by how the word mosque became the dominant conflict driven media frame of the story and how interfaith bridge building and creating a space for moderate Islam receded into the background.

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Daisy Khan: 'When Will Muslims Be Accepted?'

The Washington Post | Sally Quinn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daisy Khan is shocked. In a phone conversation with her minutes ago she said she couldn't believe that what had started out as "a community center for...

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NYC Imam's Goodwill Tour Comes Amid Mosque Furor

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The furor over the planned mosque and Islamic center near ground zero has put Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in a curious position: At the sa...

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My Meetings With The Man Behind The Mosque

The Daily Beast | Brad Gooch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the controversial Islamic center Park51, represents a liberal version of Islam, says biographer Brad Gooch, who ...

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Build the Mosque!

Andrew Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Levine

Would that there were as much interest in building mosques -- or churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship -- as in building temples to Zeus. ...

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