Park51, and Islam in America. When a dozen cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammed appeared in the conservative Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, in September, 2005, there was only a muted outcry from the small Danish Muslim community, and little reaction in the rest of the Muslim world.
Six months later, however, riots broke out and Danish embassies were burned; more than a hundred people died. Assassination threats were made, and continue to this day. Last year, when plans were announced for Cordoba House, an Islamic community center to be built two blocks north of Ground Zero, few opposed them. The project was designed to promote moderate Islam and provide a bridge to other faiths.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Sufi cleric leading the effort, told the Times, in December, “We want to push back against the extremists.” The lessons of the Danish cartoon controversy serve as an ominous template for the current debate. So what happened? Culture wars are currently being waged against Muslim Americans across the country. Op-Ed Contributor - Building on Faith in Lower Manhattan. New Yorkers Conflicted Over Islamic Center, Poll Finds.
The World Watches America's Heated Mosque Debates. A video report from Taiwan’s Apple Daily, which uses animation, and fiction, to illustrate news stories.
Updated | 6:50 p.m. Last August, there was anecdotal evidence that people in many parts of the global village were watching, if not always quite understanding, the furious debate in the United States over health insurance, as it devolved into televised shouting matches about “death panels.” This year, it seems that the same sort of attention is being paid to the similarly intense fury around proposals to construct a handful of mosques in American cities as far apart as New York and Murfreesboro, Tenn. Through Islamic Center Debate, World Sees U.S. Danilo Schiavella/ANSA, via European Pressphoto Agency.
Olbermann: There is no ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ - msnbc tv - Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Finally as promised, a Special Comment tonight on the inaccurately described "Ground Zero mosque.
" "They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up. " Pastor Martin Niemoller's words are well known but their context is not well understood.
Niemoller was not speaking abstractly. Municipal Land-Use Hearing Update - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/10/2010. Mosque-Erade - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/16/2010. Ten things I know about the mosque. 1.
America missed a golden opportunity to showcase its Constitutional freedoms. The instinctive response of Americans should have been the same as President Obama's: Muslims have every right to build there. Where one religion can build a church, so can all religions. 2. The First Amendment comes down to this: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. " inoffensive black woman, and when you attack me for saying it, you are in violation of my First Amendment rights. " 3. 4. 5. 6. By using the evocative word "shackles" she associates Dr. 7. 8. 9.
Le débat s’envenime autour de "la mosquée de Ground Zero" Une mosquée près de Ground zero, ou la naissance d'une controverse - Il n’est encore qu’embryonnaire, mais le projet très sensible d’ériger une mosquée dans le proche périmètre du World Trade Center s’annonce déjà fertile en controverses, de celles qui sont à fleur de peau, ravivant des blessures indélébiles, à proximité de vestiges qui porteront à jamais les stigmates du 11-septembre.
President Obama Celebrates Ramadan at White House Iftar Dinner. RACBlog: Embodying The Values We Cherish Most. Reposted from Religion News Service The most effective response America can give to the 9/11 terrorist attacks is to affirm our nation’s core values of freedom and liberty for all–including the religious tolerance, freedom, and equality that the perpetrators so vividly repudiated.
The debate surrounding a planned Muslim community center and mosque, known as Cordoba House, two blocks from ground zero has been plagued by fear, intolerance and politics, reshaping it into something ugly. The religious community–including the Jewish community, which isn’t of one mind on the matter–has a special stake in putting forward this vision. I am proud that most Jewish organizations have supported the right of this mosque to be built near the site of ground zero. We Jews, as the victims of religious extermination and persecution, know all too well the pain that comes from being told that our community and our houses of worship will be treated differently than others.
Home Page. Controverse : la construction d’une mosquée à Ground Zero divise l’Amérique ! Une mosquée sur le lieu des attentats du 11 Septembre ?
