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The N.Y. Islamic Center Controversy: How People of the Same Faith Can Disagree

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Gallup numbers suggest that there is greater diversity of opinion than is often presumed and clearly demonstrate that no one view, even with any given faith community, holds sway.

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Prominent Park51 Opponent: Stop Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Adam Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Park51 retreating under a cloud of Tea Party witchcraft and midterm election white noise, Foxman's crucial reaffirmation of the need for tolerance arrives at the exact moment when it is least needed.

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Poll: More Republicans Support A Strip Club Over A Mosque Near Ground Zero

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new survey from the Democratic-affiliated firm Public Policy Polling finds that more Republicans support constructing a strip club than a mosque nea...

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TNR's Marty Peretz Attempts 'Apology' For Column Bashing American Muslims

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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New Republic editor Marty Peretz added to his compendium of racist bilge in a column. Today, he offers up what purports to be an "apology."

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Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The story of how one lone idiot, pimping an 18th-century brand of community terrorism, held the media hostage and forced some of this nation's most powerful people to their knees to fitfully beg an end to his wackdoodlery is an extraordinary one.

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TNR's Marty Peretz: Muslims Unworthy Of 'The Privileges Of The First Amendment'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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From time to time, I harbor grave doubts about whether or not Peretz is worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment. But in the end, I suppose pornography provides a low bar for Peretz to barely clear.

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Imam in the Middle, But Is He in the Center?

Aasim I. Padela | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the Park51 project near Ground Zero has become painted as an issue of religious freedom, American Muslims are confronted with championing the cause of a man who may not accurately represent them.

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Park51 Opponents Now Just Dragging Missiles Around Manhattan, Because They Understand Tact

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Courtesy of Jim Newell and Mark Borden comes some photographic documentation of how the dialogue over the proposed Park51 cultural center is proceedin...

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Newt's Park51 Stance Puts Him 'To The Right' Of Il Duce

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Smith's been digging into whether Newt Gingrich's call -- "There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches...

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Quinnipiac's Park51 Polling Doesn't Make Much Sense

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Adam Serwer rounds up the confusing results of Quinnipiac's polling on the Park51 project and notes that the results bespeak "cognitive dissonance." T...

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Anti-Muslim, Anti-Gay '9/11 Christians' Plan Church Near Ground Zero

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, what if, in addition to the Park51 interfaith cultural center and basketball courts that are not at Ground Zero, we had a bigoted kook-church for ...

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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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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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'Ground Zero Mosque' and Religious Freedom in America

Joshua Stanton | Posted 05.25.2011

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These protests, diatribes, and campaigns against Park51, the proposed Muslim community center in lower Manhattan, violate the ideals of religious freedom to which our country has long aspired.

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