Love seems to be missing from the media accounts of the fury unleashed by an anti-Islamic video. There's something frustratingly abstract and cerebral about conversations that pit American "freedom of speech" against Islamic anti-blasphemy laws.
Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who gained international notoriety last summer for his plan to burn a Quran and announced recently he was running for pres...
I believe Ground Zero is sacred. I believe every inch of America is sacred. I believe, in an era where more and more people are convinced that different faiths are fated to fight, America is nothing short of a mercy upon all the worlds.
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.
You could not find a bigger Obama supporter than me during the 2008 elections. He promised a lot, and I expected a lot. Yet he has not delivered on the most important issues that I voted on.
Leaving the world a better place than we found it by reversing the downward spiral hatred and ignorance for our children and our grandchildren is truly the "Game Changer" that we all need to strive for.
It seems wrong that, in a society that supposedly prides itself on being open, democratic and accepting of many different cultural groups, so many people are blatantly associating Muslims with terrorism.
During a question about whether an Islamic Center should be allowed to be built in Lower Manhattan, Rosen said that if one is built, he supports terrorists blowing it up.
for those closest to the ongoing interreligious movement, tolerance just won't suffice. Real intercultural harmony demands exposure, as well as respect, mutuality, and, ultimately, engagement.
If there is a lesson to be learned from John Paul's actions regarding the Carmelite convent at Aushwitz, it is exactly the opposite of what Cordoba House opponents are now claiming.
It was a segment that embarrassed "60 Minutes" and proved Scott Pelley doesn't do his homework, at least not where editing his own segment is concerne...
The Tea Party is based on an extreme disapproval of the current Democratic administration and may be inadvertently energizing the left. Could progressives galvanize around an anti-Tea Party movement?
The dispute over the mosque is a lot like a hypothetical German-American march. Just as it would be wrong to treat all German-Americans as if they are Nazis, so too is it wrong to treat all Muslims as if they support terrorism.
All this talk about how the Cordoba project will be funded begs a bigger question: shouldn't we be trying to find an energy alternative to oil so that we don't have to continue to send our dollars to hostile nations and entities?
Woody Allen is very clearly in favor of the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero.
At the premiere of his new film "You Will Meet a Tall ...
What's missing in the national firestorm over Park51? The voices of young people. Here's how young people can speak out against Islamophobia without creating new enemies, starting on today.
"As my flight approached America last weekend, my mind circled back to the furor that has broken out over plans to build Cordoba House, a community ce...
At first it was just patchwork over windows and signposts, deceptively simple. A piece of paper bisected by a black line with a Helvetica-fonted survey question about the "Ground Zero mosque" on both sides.