The pastor planning to burn Qurans on the Sept. 11 anniversary said Thursday that he had called off the event after being given assurances that the Muslim group seeking to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site would move the project. “We would consider that a sign from God,” the Rev. Terry […]
“We have to be able to decode what’s happening and realize that this is religious intolerance on one hand, and it’s [also] good ol’ red-blooded American racial and ethnic bias on the other hand,” said Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, sitting in his office at the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Inc. in Harlem. A controversial nationwide […]
A drunk man barged into a mosque in Queens, N.Y., and shouted anti-Muslim slurs before urinating on prayer rugs, the New York Post reported. Evening prayers were disrupted at the Iman Mosque this week when the unhinged man “came in with a beer bottle in his hands, clearly very intoxicated,” according to Mustapha Sadouki, who […]
While the “Ground Zero Mosque” site is two blocks away from Ground Zero, rap mogulRussell Simmons‘ apartment is across the street! This week he put various religious symbols in his windows to support religious freedom. Now everyone near Ground Zero can see towering symbols of all the world’s wonderful religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc. Read […]
In the storm of anger and accusation over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, one thing seems clear to Laique Khan: His fellow Muslims have a right to build the project. “If this really is a free country,” said Mr. Khan, 56, the manager of a trucking company in Brooklyn, “then, by […]
From CNN Belief Blog: Church attendance crept up slightly in the United States this year, according to new Gallup research – but not everyone is buying the findings. Slightly more than 43 percent of Americans told Gallup they attend church, synagogue or mosque weekly or almost every week, up from just under 43 percent in […]
From The New York Daily News More than 1,000 people turned out Sunday to protest an Islamic community center and mosque planned near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. Waving U.S. flags and signs that said, “No 9/11 Mega Mosque,” the crowd condemned the proposal to put the Islamic center near the site where nearly 3,000 […]
