By JULIAN E. BARNES And MATTHEW ROSENBERG / Wall Street Journal The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a small Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger

Categories: al-Qur'an  Afghanistan  9/11  Taliban  The US  

Added: September 07, 2010

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By LAURIE GOODSTEIN / NY Times This year, Sept. 11 coincides with the celebration of Eid, the finale to Ramadan, which usually lasts three days. But Muslim leaders, in this climate, said they wanted to avoid appearing to be celebrating on the anniversary of 9/11.

Categories: American Muslims  9/11  Eid al-Fitr  Islamophobia  

Added: September 06, 2010

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By staff writers / News.com.au We will burn Korans because we think it's time for Christians, for churches, for politicians to stand up and say no; Islam and Sharia law is not welcome in the U.S.

Categories: al-Qur'an  Religious Bigotry  American Muslims  9/11  Islamophobia  

Added: August 05, 2010

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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN / NY Times Personally, if I had $100 million to build a mosque that promotes interfaith tolerance, I would not build it in Manhattan. I'd build it in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. That is where 9/11 came from, and those are the countries that espouse the most puritanical version of Sunni Islam

Categories: American Muslims  Mosque  9/11  Culture  Diversity  

Added: August 04, 2010

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By Dr. Habib Siddiqui / Countercurrents.org America has been a land of immigrants. It is its religious tolerance that allowed many Jews and others to find a safe refuge here. There is no better symbol of America's tolerance than a Muslim center near the Ground Zero. Denying such rights to Muslims who now are perhaps the second largest religious community will be a slap to that very American model.

Categories: Mosque  American Muslims  Islamophobia  Tolerance  9/11  

Added: July 28, 2010

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By Prof. David Ray Griffin / Global Research

It has been permissible to ask whether the war during the past several years has been justified by those attacks so many years ago. But one has not been allowed to ask whether the original invasion was justified by the 9/11 attacks. However, what can be designated the "McChrystal Moment" - the probably brief period during which the media are again focused on the war in Afghanistan

Categories: 9/11  Afghanistan  The US  War on Terror  Taliban  

Added: June 27, 2010

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By Rhys H. Williams / The Ctristian Century The attacks of 9/11 and their aftermath have caused great pain to U.S. Muslims. They have experienced formal and informal discrimination and large and small forms of public humiliation.

Categories: 9/11  Books  American Muslims  Discrimination  Islamophobia  

Added: June 16, 2010

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By PAUL VITELLO / NY Times In the last few months, Muslim groups have encountered unexpectedly intense opposition to their plans for opening mosques in Lower Manhattan, in Brooklyn and most recently in an empty convent on Staten Island.

Categories: Mosque  American Muslims  9/11  Islamophobia  Protests  

Added: June 11, 2010

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By American Muslims / The Dawn During the past year alone, many unfortunate opportunities have thrown up questions about the intentions of the Muslim next door, a situation complicated by the inability of the American Muslim leadership to accept its immigrant dimension.

Categories: American Muslims  Discrimination  Islam and the Media  Immigrants  9/11  

Added: June 03, 2010

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