UK: Planned Muslim Community Center Burned to the Ground by Arsonists|
FIRE investigators are “99 per cent sure” that a blaze which ripped through a church in Ipswich was started deliberately.
The fire at St Michael’s Church in Upper Orwell Street has left the Victorian building structurally unsafe.
Opponent of NYC Islamic center becomes advocate for mosques nationwide|
Stephen Prothero, a prominent religion professor and CNN Belief Blog contributor, said the ADL’s opposition to the Lower Manhattan Islamic center showed that the group and its leader, Abraham L. Foxman, “no longer occupy a moral high ground.”
It’s not easy to build a mosque in Brooklyn, either|
Depending on whom you ask, the new mosque planned for a quiet block in southern Brooklyn is either the latest target in a wave of coordinated anti-Muslim sentiment, part of an insidious effort to spread political Islam throughout America or simply a parking nightmare waiting to happen.
Talking Compromise, Imam Is Provocative, Too|
The imam working on the planned Muslim community center near ground zero said Monday he was open to all options to resolve the fierce dispute surrounding it, while possibly provoking the project’s opponents by declaring that the site, two blocks from the former World Trade Center, was not “hallowed ground.”
Right-wing evangelist promises to establish ‘9/11 Christian Center’ to counter ‘the lies of Islam’|
An Internet evangelist from Florida has begun holding services near ground zero to preach against Islam as debate continues over plans for a nearby Muslim community center.
Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Balancing Act in Mosque Furor|
In recent weeks, Mr. Abdul Rauf has barely been heard from as a national political debate explodes over his dream project, including, somewhere in its planned 15 stories, a mosque. Opponents have called his project an act of insensitivity, even a monument to terrorism.
