Category: Islam

People of the book

The true history of the Koran in America By Ted Widmer September 12, 2010 Nine years later, we are still haunted by Sept. 11, and in some ways it’s getting worse. All summer, a shrill debate over whether to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site was fueled by pundits on the right, who …

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More civilized?

Why does the US government think burning Qurans is less civilised than drone attacks on civilian populations?

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Ye have made it

And said unto them, It is written , My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:46)

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Madness

Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .

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Rape of Dulcinea

Note:  The following piece by Israel Shamir, a contemporary Israeli intellectual, was resurrected April 18, 2010 after Wiesel’s open letter appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, and New York Times… +++ Elie Wiesel wrote a letter to President Obama demanding hands off Jewish hold on Jerusalem.  He recycled his own …

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Hallowed?

Ground Zero’s Slave Graves By Jen Phillips, Wednesday August 25, 2010 4:32 PM PDT The outrage about the “ground zero mosque” has turned very ugly, as this video of this recent protest shows. People are calling Mohammed a pig. A New York City cab driver was stabbed today after his passenger asked him if he was …

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The greatest danger

Baptists, Islam and the greatest danger By Alan Sherouse, Friday, August 27, 2010 NEW YORK (ABP) — I come to the escalating debate over the Islamic center proposed near Ground Zero as a Baptist pastor in the heart of Manhattan. A New Yorker. A Baptist. A pastor. Each of these parts of my identity tells …

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