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The Future Of Christian-Muslim Relations In The West (VIDEO)

Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Religious-Tolerance, Islam, Video, Gabe Lyons, Q-Ideas, Christian-Muslim-Dialogue, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Christianity, American Islam, Cordoba Initiative, Interfaith Dialogue, Religious Tolerance, Christian-Muslim Relations, Islam in America, Religion News

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative and Gabe Lyons, the founder of Q Ideas discuss the future of Christian-Muslim relations in the West. ...

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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Launches Multi-City Interfaith Tour (VIDEO)

Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: park51, American Muslims, Imam Rauf, Religious Freedom, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Interfaith Understanding, Muslims in America, Cordoba Initiative, Imam Rauf Interfaith Tour, Interfaith Dialogue, Religious Tolerance, American Religious Pluralism, Islam in America, Video, Religion News

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, is launching a tour to raise awareness about Muslims in America. 2010 saw Muslims in this ...

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Park51 Developer Sharif El-Gamal Raising Money For Second Mosque In Harlem

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Sharif El-Gamal, Cordoba Initiative, Tidjani Islamic Community, Cordoba House, Harlem Mosque, NYC Real Estate, New York News

NEW YORK — Eight years ago, Sharif El-Gamal was just another ambitious striver from Brooklyn, casting about for career leads and dreaming of a g...

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To Bill O'Reilly and Those of a Similar Mind

Andy Schupak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Muslim, New York, Cordoba House, New York City, Imam Rauf, 9/11, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Cordoba Initiative, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Mosque, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Andy Schupak

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.

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Hamas Leader: Mosque Near Ground Zero Must Be Built

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Mahmoud Al-Zahar, World Trade Center Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, Gaza Strip, Hamas Ground Zero Mosque, Mahmoud Zahar, New York News

NEW YORK — A Hamas leader says Muslims "have to build" a mosque near ground zero. Mahmoud al-Zahar said Muslims "have to build everywhere" so tha...

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Poll: 60% Of New Yorkers Oppose Ground Zero Mosque, Half Think It Would Promote Tolerance

nydailynews.com | By Frank Lombardi, Edgar Sandoval and Bill Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque Poll, Wtc Mosque, Ground Zero Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, World Trade Center, New York News

A survey of New Yorkers shows six out of 10 oppose plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero. Results of the Siena Research Institute poll were rele...

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

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, New York City Mosque, Cordoba House, Mosque Ground Zero, American Center for Law and Justice, Cordoba Initiative, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Ground Zero, New York News

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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Muslim Summit Planned Over NYC Islamic Center

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: September 11, Ground Zero Mosque, park51, Cordoba House, 9/11, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Cordoba Initiative, New York News

NEW YORK — A proposed Islamic center near ground zero is slowly being embraced by some Muslims who initially were indifferent about the plan, pa...

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Why I Traveled the Muslim World After 9-11 and What I Learned

Michael Luongo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ramadan, Jordan, Islam, Tea Party, New York, Saddam, September 11, Anti-Muslim, Iraq, Cordoba Initiative, Beirut, 11th of September, Muslim, Michael Luongo, Amman, Islamaphobia, Afghanistan, Christianity, 9-11, Twin Towers, park51, Ground Zero, September 11th, Politics News
Michael Luongo

The role of the travel writer is to bring people to places they never see, to explain things to them, to make the unknown, the forbidden, the intangible, known quantities, things to no longer fear.

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Why I Oppose the New York Park51 Initiative

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Iraq Children, Gaza, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gaza-School, Pakistan Floods, Cordoba Initiative, New York, Muslim World, Unrwa, Islamophobia, Disaster Relief, Cordoba House, Sudan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Somalia, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Iraq, New York News
Firas Al-Atraqchi

Would all those funds and energies not be of better benefit elsewhere? Is the building of an Islamic center in New York a priority for the Muslim ummah (community)?

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A New York Teen Speaks Out, September 2001

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Civil Liberties, War on Terror, Islamophobia, Civil Rights, 9/11 Anniversary, Religious Freedom, 9/11, Ground Zero Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, New York City, Wtc, New York Teen, Stop Islamization of America, Martin Luther King, Muslims, Racism, World Trade Center, Afghanistan, park51, September 11th, Ground Zero, New York News, New York News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Whatever you think of the issues, would you consider someone un-American for speaking their mind? Or is it more un-American to deny people the right to speak their minds and worship their god?

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The Meaning Of 'Cordoba': Can It Really Symbolize Religious Tolerance?

Mark R. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Cordoba Initiative, Cordoba House, Islamic Spain, Ground Zero Mosque, park51, Mosque Near Ground Zero, Mosque at Ground Zero, Religion News
Mark R. Cohen

Can Córdoba serve as a symbol for tolerance and mutual understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims today? Yes.

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The Cordoba House Debate: "It's Like A Dog Chasing Its Tail"

Ian Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Politics, Ground Zero Mosque, World Trade Center Mosque, Cordoba House, American Muslims, Cordoba Initiative, Constitution, Muslim World, Cordoba House Ground Zero, Politics News
Ian Moss

A lot has been written and will be written about the controversy* surrounding the proposed construction of the Cordoba House, two blocks from the Worl...

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

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

Read More: Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Burning Quran, Pamela Geller, Burning Korans, Cordoba Initiative, New York Mosque, Quran Burning Church, Burning Koran, Mosque, Koran Burning Church, Quran Burning, Islamophobia, Cordoba Center, New York City Mosque, Burning Qurans, Cordoba House, Quran Burning Florida, Koran Burning, Religion News
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

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, New York City Mosque, New York Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, Cordoba House, Arab Jewish Relations, Jewish Arab Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Religion News
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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Jason Linkins

Cordoba Initiative Opponents Aid Radical Extremists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Cordoba House, Cordoba Initiative, Eat the Press, Al Qaeda, Politics News

If there was one frail, painfully naive hope I harbored when I left for vacation over a week ago, it was for all this national nonsense over the propo...

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A Tale of Two Mosques

Shai Baitel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, World Trade Center Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, Cordoba House, Mosque, Mosque Ground Zero, Mosques, Religion News
Shai Baitel

Having a right and doing the right thing, for one's goals and one's community, might be two different things. What worked for a mosque in Nazareth still has the chance to work with Park 51.

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Where Is the Unhallowed Ground?

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cordoba House Mosque, Cordoba Mosque, Cordoba Center, Cordoba, Cordoba House, Xenophobia, American Muslims, Racism, Muslims, Cordoba Initiative, Muslim, Right-Wing Extremism, Barack Obama, Cordoba House Ground Zero, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Conservatives keep asking: Where are the moderate Muslims? I want to know: where are the moderate Americans? Where are the politicians who will finally stand up to this right-wing extremism?

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Daisy Khan: 'When Will Muslims Be Accepted?'

The Washington Post | Sally Quinn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, park51, New York City Mosque, Daisy Khan Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque Daisy Khan, New York Mosque, Daisy Khan Ground Zero Mosque, Daisy Khan, Park 51, Daisy Kahn, Ground Zero Mosque Daisy Kahn, Daisy Kahn Ground Zero Mosque, Daisy Khan Washington Post, Wapo Daisy Khan, Washington Post Daisy Khan, Daisy Khan Wapo, Religion News

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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The Untold Story Behind the "Mosque at Ground Zero"

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Sioa, Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Muslims, Cordoba House, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Ground Zero, Cordoba Initiative, Stop the Islamization of America, park51, Mosque at Ground Zero, Cordoba House Ground Zero, New York News
Ahmed Rehab

American Muslims bear no collective guilt. We have nothing to apologize for and everything to be proud of, including our loyalty and hard-earned livelihoods.

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Why I Support The Muslim Center In New York

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Newt Gingrich, Ground Zero Mosque, Slam, Cordoba Initiative, Cordoba House, Newt Gingrich Ground Zero Mosque, Religion News
Wayne Besen

The genuine threat we face is not radical Islam but religious extremism of all stripes, including that preached by Gingrich.

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Why Christians Should Support The 'Ground Zero Mosque'

Lisa Sharon Harper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, Religion News
Lisa Sharon Harper

My Christian faith's values for forgiveness, truth, and love of neighbor lead me to conclude that politicians using the Islamic community center to score political points are mounting a direct assault against the honor of the dead.

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Park 51: The Ground Zero Mosque Is Not a Mosque

Anushay Hossain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Mayor Bloomberg, Cordoba House, Islamic Extremists, Cordoba Initiative, Park 51, Keith Olbermann, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Cordoba House Ground Zero, Religion News
Anushay Hossain

Calling this Center the "Ground Zero Mosque" not only makes people think up dramatic images of an actual mosque right on the site of Ground Zero, but it also misconstrues the entire debate.

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Republicans Attack the Peaceful Imam

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Sufism, Cordoba House, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Cordoba Initiative, Daisy Khan, Sufi, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

Rumors linking Imam Feisal to terrorism have fallen on their face. Every day since 9/11, Feisal has worked with US law enforcement agencies to "eradicate terrorism."

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Ground Zero Mosque: Paterson Tries To Broker Deal For Alternate Location

AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY and BETH FOUHY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Paterson Ground Zero Mosque, Ground Zero Mosque, Cordoba Initiative, David Paterson Cordoba House, Cordoba House, David Paterson, Cordoba House Ground Zero, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. David Paterson, who last week suggested that developers of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero might want ...

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