Religious Liberty Looking Wobbly in Debate over Islamic Community Center, Writes First Amendment Scholar
Whether it's the extremist Florida pastor promoting a burn-the-Quran day or conservative pundit Newt Gingrich peddling his shrill campaign against the planned Islamic community center in New York City, rising anti-Islam action within in the country is ...
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Turning Our Back on Religious Freedom Hurts All Americans
By Sahar Aziz. Ms. Aziz is the author of Sticks and Stones, Words That Hurt: Entrenched Stereotypes Eight Years After 9/11 published in the New York City Law Review. She is a Legal Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and serves...
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Joseph Ward III: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Speaks Out (AUDIO, TRANSCRIPT)
It is my sincere hope that by releasing this audio recording and transcript of our recent conversation, those who honestly seek understanding about the Islamic center and the good leaders behind it will find it.
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Byron Williams: Feigning Patriotism in Order to Spew Un-American Rhetoric
I refer to those who oppose building the mosque at Ground Zero as holding an un-American position because the First Amendment stands in their way, yet they still seek the path of the emotional short cut.
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Michael Hughes: Ground Zero Mosque: American Intolerance on Full Display for Muslim World
In similar fashion as Voltaire (and Mel Brooks) deconstructed the false notion of the Holy Roman Empire - positing that it was neither holy, nor...
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Experts Mount Robust Defense of Religious Liberty in Debate over Planned NYC Islamic Center
While conservative pundits, such as Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, are loudly fighting the planned Islamic center and mosque in New York City, legal scholars and First Amendment experts are noting the hypocrisy of the attacks on the planned religious s...
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Robert J. Elisberg: Taking Your Country Back. Way, Way Back.
There are several ways to campaign. One is to let voters know who caused the problems they are complaining about. A second way is letting...
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Will Bunch: It’s Not About the Mosque! It’s America’s War on ‘the Other’
The political firestorm with its epicenter in lower Manhattan really has nothing to do with 9/11 and everything to do with the fear that America is becoming a non-white-dominated country.
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David O. Stewart: Playing the Nazi Card
Always ready to throw kerosene on a cultural blaze, Republican quote-meister Newt Gingrich has decreed that those sponsoring a mosque in lower Manhattan are like...
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Joshua Hoyt: On Mosques, Borders, and Our ‘Nation of Immigrants’ This Election Season
During the past week, the predictable dance of Republican demagoguery and Democratic cowardice were on shameful display for the whole nation.
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