TagsTagsAt the New York Times, Anne Barnard has an excellent profile of the man who's been relentlessly, dishonestly demonized by Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the Fox News Bigot Brigade: Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Balancing Act in Mosque Furor. Not everyone in the Cairo lecture hall last February was buying the ...
Ground Zero, Park51, Mosque, Manhattan, Bigotry, Islam, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Moderate Islam
In the British town of Luton today, members of the Muslim community confronted extremists and drove them from the streets. Muslim extremists behind a protest against soldiers on a homecoming parade have been driven off the streets today by members of their own community. Fights broke out and traffic ground to ...
Luton, Britain, Islam, Militant Islam, Moderate Islam, Demonstration
An interesting piece on an important subject by Michael J. Totten at Commentary Magazine: The Moderate Supermajority.
At City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple suggests that the search for a moderate Islam may be futile: All or Nothing. The week following the Muslim protests in London against the Danish cartoons—with marchers carrying signs calling for the beheading of infidels—other Muslims demonstrated to claim that Islam really meant peace and tolerance. ...