When we speak of the 9/11 ground zero as hallowed ground, what we mean is that it belongs to those who suffered and died there - and that such ownership obliges us, the living, to preserve the dignity ...

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In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Sheboygan, Wisconsin and Temecula, California, plans for Islamic mosques have generated heated opposition. But the objections are different from those being raised in lower ...

LITTLE ROCK — A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and ...

The so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is neither a mosque (it's a YMCA-like community center that includes a prayer space) nor is it located at Ground Zero (it's a couple of blocks away), but that hasn't ...

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority just gave its blessing to an anti-Muslim ad campaign, brought to you by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. Share ...

Opposition to Islamic mosques is not confined to New York City and elsewhere it’s focused not on September 11 but on the Muslim religion. Are there parallels in American history? What are the ...