Monday, September 13, 2010

“Meacham: Let Reformation Begin at Ground Zero” plus 2 more

“Meacham: Let Reformation Begin at Ground Zero” plus 2 more


Meacham: Let Reformation Begin at Ground Zero

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 10:32 PM PDT

The debate over the Islamic center in lower Manhattan—the mosque with a pool and a prayer room—is not a matter of being for religious liberty and thus for the center, nor is it one of being against the center and therefore a bigot. Sometimes life offers such stark moral crises. This is not one of them.

Islam for all time needs to reckon with the times

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 04:04 PM PDT

By Joe Fernandez COMMENT Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak talked about "Muslims themselves sowing the seeds of destruction in Islam" in his Aidilfitri message this year. Every organisation, in fact, contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction as evident from the fact that the oldest existing organisation in human history is only 2,000 years old, that is, the Roman Catholic Church. All ...

Nicholas Kristof: America’s values tested as slurs about Islam multiply

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 02:31 PM PDT

For a glimpse of how venomous and debased the discourse about Islam has become, consider a blog post in The New Republic this month. Written by Martin Peretz, the magazine's editor-in-chief, it asserted: "Frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims."Peretz added: "I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment ...

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