The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism
This article is harshly criticizing Tariq Ramadan’s Book “The Quest for Meaning”, We think that it will open a new horizons for discussions and debates over Ramadan’s thoughts and ideology.
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Politico: GOP takes harsher stance toward Islam
New York’s beleaguered Republicans, seeing an opening, have seized and driven the mosque issue, and Roth and other mainstream figures have worked to insulate it from more radical anti-Islamic voices..
Aug 15, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Arnold Friedman | ADL’s mosque stand flawed
I’m pleased that Fareed Zakariah recently returned a First Amendment award the ADL gave him in 2005 to protest your decision. I’d be more pleased if the ADL were to reconsider its position and admit that it was wrong in this case.
Aug 15, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Lexington: Build that mosque
For a while America seemed less vulnerable than Europe to home-grown jihadism. The Pew Research Centre reported three years ago that most Muslim Americans were “largely assimilated, happy with their lives…
Aug 14, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Are Mainstream Islamist Groups Radicalizing?
How have these emerging concerns affected their strategy and tactics? And, as mainstream Islamists are boxed in by government restrictions, will other more radical groups try to fill the vacuum?
Aug 14, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Gina Gershon: Trusting in the Humanity of All the World’s People
The Islam I saw in Turkey was not the Islam we often see in politics and entertainment. Endorsing the Cordoba House provides a unique opportunity to trust in the humanity of all the world’s people.
Aug 14, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Why the Deadly Attack on the Freedom Flotilla Was the Breakthrough That Made the World See Israel’s Cruelty in Gaza
This excerpt from the new book, “Midnight on the Mavi Marmara,” explains how the world is now forced to reconsider what Zionism has actually built in the Middle East.
Aug 13, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Commentary: Is Islam’s Problem A Lack Of Modernity?
Contrary to the liberal narrative– Islamist groups do not draw their followers from the ranks of the poor and dispossessed, but from the educated middle and upper classes. Terrorists often have college degrees, sometimes from Western educational institutions.
Aug 13, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Jon Stewart On Ground Zero: Municipal Land-Use Hearing Update
Newt Gingrich doesn’t want to be lectured about religious liberty when there’s not a single church or synagogue in Saudi Arabia. A Must watch Clip
Aug 12, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Conservative Group Calls for Blanket Ban on New Mosques
AFA’s Bryan Fischer was demanding the end to the construction of all mosques on the grounds that “each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.”!!!
Aug 12, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
U.S. Muslims underestimate 9/11 effect, Muslim thinker warns
A different point of view, Akbar Ahmed, The Prominent Muslim thinker is opposing the construction of the Ground Zero Islamic Center.
Aug 10, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post
Shari’a and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Shari‘a is a product of an approach to evidence as opposed to an immutable set of laws. Possessing a significant degree of flexibility, it evolves to fit the changing needs and expectations of a given society.
Aug 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Fareed Zakaria: why I’m returning an award to the ADL?
Five years ago, the ADL honored me with its Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. I was thrilled to get the award from an organization that I had long admired.
Aug 10, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Muslim group holds ‘anti-terrorism’ summer camp
The camp follows the publication by Qadri, founder of the moderate (MQI) movement, of a headline-grabbing “fatwa on terrorism”,claiming to “remove decisively” any theological justification for Islamist terror.
Aug 09, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
The War on Terror: Beyond the Military
The fact is, terrorism originates from dark and damp alleys of apathy, poverty, disenfranchisement and misunderstanding. It is a tactic that can support any set of ideals
Aug 09, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Jewish organizations schould have nothing to do with Ground Zero Mosque
What I don’t understand is why that makes some Jewish organizations think they have anything to do with an Islamic cultural center’s construction in downtown Manhattan
Aug 09, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Media Matters: Of mosques and mendacity
It’s been clear for some time now that the culture of accountability at Fox News doesn’t, you know … exist. If you’re a Fox News employee, you can get away with pretty much anything.
Aug 08, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Andrew C. McCarthy: More Moderate Muslims!!
Another Ikhwanophobic article! .. This one is alleging that Muslim Brotherhood founded the whole Islamic activism in the United States!!!
Aug 08, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Shame on ADL for opposing Mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero
Sadly, the memory of Jewish suffering is appropriated by right-wing forces to justify special privilege for Jews in general and Israel in particular.
Aug 07, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
American Muslims Make Video to Rebut Militants
A recent spate of arrests of Muslims accused of terrorism in the United States has revealed that many of them were radicalized by militant preaching they found on the Internet.
Mayor Bloomberg for Standing Up for Religious Freedom
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s speech he gave on August 3, 2010, defending the rights of Muslims and other Americans to build houses of worship.
Aug 05, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Gingrich, Bolton, Breitbart Team Up With Far-Right Muslim-Basher Geert Wilders For 9/11 Rally
In the past, Wilders’ extremism has been condemned by conservatives such as Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, and even Glenn Beck, who called Wilders “fascist.”