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Ground Zero mosque project clears major obstacle
Ambitious plans to build a mosque next to New York’s Ground Zero cleared a major hurdle on Tuesday when a local commission voted to remove the existing structure on the site from a protected list. The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously in favor of an application to end the protected…
Anti-racist ADL ‘joins bigots’ in opposing Ground Zero mosque
The Anti-Defamation League describes itself as “fighting anti-Semitism, bigotry and extremism,” but critics of the Jewish group’s latest move say it has joined the ranks of some of the US’s most bigoted organizations in its call to oppose the “Ground Zero mosque,” a Muslim community center being built several blocks…
CAIR: Tea partiers to ‘harass’ Muslims with dogs at anti-mosque protest
CAIR slams ‘KKK tactics,’ says Tea Party changing focus to ‘promotion of Islamophobia’ ‘Islam is not a religion,’ declares anonymous protest organizer The Council on American-Islamic relations has condemned plans for a Tea Party protest outside a southern California mosque, whose organizers are urging protesters to bring dogs with them…
Iraq car bomb kills 30
BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) – A car bomb killed 30 people and wounded 46 near a mosque in a predominantly Shiite area of the mixed city of Baquba, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on Wednesday, security officials said. The bomb in a car parked near a Shiite mosque in the…
Proposed mosque sets Tennessee residents at odds
During the American Civil War, the border state of Tennesse was bitterly divided, with pockets of pro-Union sentiment strongly opposing the secessionist majority. Today, the residents of the city of Murfreesboro are not about to take up arms against each other, but a peaceful war of words is heating up…
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