Tennessee Mosque

Tennessee Mosque Construction Goes On Despite Ruling

AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 05.31.2012

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Construction is continuing on a mosque as attorneys debate a judge's ruling that said local officials did not give the public eno...

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Judge Rules That Tennessee Mosque Construction Will Be Stopped Because Public Wasn't Properly Notified About It

AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 05.29.2012

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Construction of a Tennessee mosque that has been strongly opposed by critics of Islam likely will be stopped after a judge ru...

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Herman Cain's Political Islamophobia

Todd Green, Ph.D. | Posted 09.18.2011

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Todd Green, Ph.D.

Cain's comments reflect a strategy among some Republican politicians to challenge Islam's place in the American religious landscape by calling into question whether it is even a legitimate religion.

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Islamophobia: Increasingly Ordinary And Therefore Most Terrible

Joshua Stanton | Posted 07.23.2011

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Joshua Stanton

Leo Tolstoy scathingly wrote of a protagonist whose life was "most ordinary and therefore most terrible." Such may also be said of the ruling put forth by Tennessee judge Robert Corlew.

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Googling Islam and Paranoia

Nabil Echchaibi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nabil Echchaibi

We could either dismiss Terry Jones as a lunatic bigot, or we could ask the tough question of who is misguiding the pastor and people like him who seem so convinced that "Islam is of the Devil."

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Cops: Tennessee Mosque Site Fire Was Arson

AP | LUCAS L. JOHNSON II and TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — A suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee has some local Muslims w...

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