Feisal Abdul Rauf, the religious leader at the head of a planned mosque and Islamic community center near the site of the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan, says backers are “proceeding” with the project amid cries of protest but also strong expressions of support — from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to President Obama. Rauf, breaking [...]
A commission of the Holocaust Museum in Israel, Yad Vashem, is deciding whether to list a Tunisian man as the first Arab to be named one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” — the designation given to the few non-Jews who risked everything during the Holocaust to save Jews from death. Oskar Schindler of “Schindler’s [...]
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Should a fellow appointed to a federal commission created to promote religious tolerance overseas be a member of the opposition to the Cordoba House project, which has been dubbed the “Ground Zero mosque” by its critics? Leonard Leo, one of Washington’s little-known but influential insiders, is a longtime conservative activist and a top official of [...]
On a rainy day in New York City, Lower Manhattan was awash in demonstrators voicing their opposition or their support for a proposed Islamic Cultural Center and mosque about two and a half blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center. The New York Police Department closed the block of Park Place where [...]
This week on Politics Daily’s online Sunday show, Jill Lawrence, Patricia Murphy, Helena Andrews, Bonnie Erbe’ and I discuss the proposed mosque, the persistent myth of Obama the Muslim, and the national security implications of undercutting American efforts to win hearts and minds in the Muslim world. Click the play button below to watch the [...]
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