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Dove World Outreach Centre, warned by General Petraeus! Dove World Outreach Centre... more

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Dallas Pastor Defends Claim That Islam 'Promotes Pedophilia'

Prominent Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church of Dallas gave a sermon a... more

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White House worries about "Burn the Qu'ran" day

Democracy can be a mixed blessing at times. Were it not for that very fact of freedom... more

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Activist Iranian Mother Of Two To Be Stoned To Death

CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom looks at the case of an Iranian mother who is to be stoned... more

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For U.S. Muslims, A 9/11 Anniversary Like No Other

For U.S. Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other They're trying to counter... more

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Even in the Year 1076 Muslims Couldn't Get Along with Their Neighbors

The First Crusade played a very important part in Medieval England. The First Crusade was an attempt to re-capture Jerusalem. After the capture of Jerusalem by the Muslims in 1076, any Christian who wanted to pay a pilgrimage to the city faced a very hard time. Muslim soldiers made life very difficult for the Christians and trying to get to Jerusalem was filled with danger for a Christian. This greatly angered all Christians.

One Christian - called Alexius I of Constantinople - feared that his country might also fall to the Muslims as it was very close to the territory captured by the Muslims. Constantinople is in modern day Turkey. Alexius called on the pope - Urban II - to give him help.

In 1095, Urban spoke to a great crown at Clermont in France. He called for a war against the Muslims so that Jerusalem was regained for the Christian faith. In his speech he said:
"Christians, hasten to help your brothers in the East, for they are being attacked. Arm for the rescue of Jerusalem under your captain Christ. Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned."

Those who volunteered to go to fight the Muslims cut out red crosses and sewed them on their tunics. The French word "croix" means cross and the word changed to "croisades" or crusades. The fight against the Muslims became a Holy War.

Many people did volunteer to fight on the First Crusade.
There were true Christians who wanted to reclaim Jerusalem for their belief and get the Muslims out of the city. There were those who knew they had committed sin and that by going on the Crusade they might be forgiven by God. They had also been told by the pope that if they were killed, they would automatically go to heaven as they were fighting for God. There were those who thought that they might get rich by taking the wealth that they thought existed in Jerusalem. Any crusader could claim to be going on a pilgrimage for God - pilgrims did not have to pay tax and they were protected by the Church. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/cru2.htmThe First Crusade played a very important part in Medieval England. The First Crusade... more

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Man Charged With Hate Crime For Allegedly Punching Turban-Wearing Store Clerk

A 35-year-old Seattle man has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly punching a... more

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Newsweek Poll: Republicans Think Obama 'Probably' Wants To Impose Islamic Law

The majority of Republicans suspect that President Obama wants to impose Islamic law,... more

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Muslim NYC Cab Driver Viciously Attacked By Supporter Of Ground Zero Mosque...Muslim Cabby is Against it!

Now why would someone who volunteers for an organization that supports the Ground Zero... more

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Mayor Bloomberg Says Not Building Mosque Near Ground Zero Would "Compromise Our Commitment to Fighting Terror with Freedom"

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Kandahar death squads. U.S. troops train Afghan militias to kill Muslims in Afghanistan (raw video)

You will never see this on FOX NEWS or hear Rush LIMBAUGH talk about it.... more

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FINALLY!!! Viewers tuning out the network news as old media model collapses.

Halleluja!!!!!!!

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Mosque Controversy- Boyd's Local Holy War Continues

No matter which religions are fighting, Boyd loves his country.

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Rachel Maddow: NYC Mosque This Month's New 'Scare White People' Story

Rachel Maddow returned from last week's secret trip to Baghdad and jumped right into the Lower Manhattan mosque controversy. Maddow's explanation for the recent furor over the building is this: It's merely "this month's new scare white people story."

You will likely recall that last month Maddow accused Fox News of ginning up the Shirley Sherrod tape debacle in an effort to "scare white people" and as a result Maddow thinks between that and ACORN and Van Jones and the Black Panthers we should be "familiar with the formula." Says Maddow:

What's worth noting about all of these different 'scare white people' stories is that they're not really actual news stories. No real news organizations started running with this story as actual news. The best 'scare white people' stories are invented out of whole cloth, from inside the conservative media world so they can be the just right kind of scary, in just the right kind of way, in order to drive the just right political consequences. So ultimately if the conservative media drives this to make it big enough than normal news organizations pick it up too, sometimes because they're guilted into it by conservatives. But no non-Fox News, non-conservative media outlet ever starts these things.

And she has a point. That has been the (successful) trajectory of most of these stories. And this mosque story was not news until the New York Post and subsequently Sarah Palin stoked it up and media outlets hungry for headlines jumped in. However, unlike some past examples Maddow offers, this one seems to have taken on a very real, possibly dangerous life of its own. As Salon's Glenn Greenwald noted, this ain't no August news story anymore: "The Park51 conflict is driven by, and reflective of, a pervasive animosity toward a religious minority -- one that has serious implications for how we conduct ourselves both domestically and internationally."

On Sunday Maureen Dowd said "the unbottled anger and suspicion concerning ground zero show that many Americans haven't flushed the trauma of 9/11 out of their systems." And I think she also may have a point, some of the "protests" in Manhattan this weekend weirdly felt like a long-delayed reaction to 9/11.Rachel Maddow returned from last week's secret trip to Baghdad and jumped right... more

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Another Mosque Emerging In Southern California?

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The Downtown Mosque and America's Moment of Shame

The controversy over plans to build a mosque in lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center site continues into yet another week. If this was a black-and-white movie, a cinematic hero in the Gary Cooper-Jimmy Stewart mold would ride into the picture just about now to dispense a dose of American common sense and stamp out our fears.

Too bad the real world can't borrow a page from the silver screen. Still, we are the inheritors of a rich tradition of political pragmatism. That counts for a lot in uncertain times. Or it should. Over the decades, when things threatened to get out of hand, that shared common good sense has usually been enough to help us keep our bearings.

But I wonder whether we're going to remain true to our better angels this time around. Instead of Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt, the media pulpit is being hijacked by the shrill and the stupid, exploiting the moment for predictably pedestrian political or financial gain (or both).

As Bob Dylan wrote, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. The timing was surely coincidental but the faux controversy ginned up over the proposed mosque - planned on the site of a former Burlington Coat Factory outlet - came as a Gainsville, Fla., church said it still plans to burn copies of the Quran even after local city officials denied a burn permit. Repeat: They want to burn copies of the Quran.

This may be a fringe group but the ugly motive they embraced didn't materialize in a vacuum. Politicians are, well, politicians and from Murphy Brown to the Terry Schiavo case, there's a contemporary history annotated by the use of the latest "outrage" to work up passions for political gain. One assumes that the few grown-ups left in the GOP leadership know what's going to happen if they let the hacks continue to fan the flames. Nearly one in five Americans now believe that that President Obama is a Muslim. For coming attractions of this fall's "Obama-as-alien" theme, check out this innuendo-filled piece by Byron York. See how this works: Obama - make that Barack Hussein Obama - is a secret Muslim and the Muslims, as Newt Gingrich has pointed out are "trying to make a case about supremacy" by building a mosque "right next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by radical Islamists."

Gingrich, mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate, also had no problem reaching for the Nazi analogy to argue against the mosque:

"Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a sight next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center."

Another out-of-office politician, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who also is mentioned as a potential future presidential candidate, picked up on the same theme, casting this as part of a larger offensive on the part of political Islam to advance Shariah law.

"...what we have is an Imam who believes not only in the "religious" part of Islam, the faith and the relationship with Allah. What he is trying to accomplish is political Islam, so he has a political agenda which is Shariah. That's the most important thing for people to understand. That unlike Christianity which is a faith that is about the next world, the next kingdom, the relationship between you and your maker. And that while there certainly are moral components to Christianity that apply to living your life like the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments, there is not a political code, there is not a governmental structure ... there is not the kind of detailed structure of how to run a worldly kingdom in Christianity that there is in Islam and that's what Shariah is, and that's what this man is advocating. So you have not just someone who's advocating a religious doctrine but he is also advancing a political doctrine under the guise and protection of religion, and that is problematic.

Santorum doesn't have the guts to spell it out too bluntly but his reading of Islamic jurisprudence points to the conclusion that Islam's fundamental charge is to force the submission of the Dar al Harb which exists here in the U.S. So if this religion-cum-ideology is fundamentally hostile to American pluralism, why indict this one imam - they're all part-and-parcel of the same conspiracy. Call it a Muslim version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

In this sort of atmosphere, is it any wonder that political pygmies are tempted to play for short-term gain? The New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio is now out there hammering Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the mosque construction as a terrorist sympathizer. ( For the record, the New York Police Department last week told the Associated Press that it had "identified no law enforcement issues related to the proposed mosque"). As usual, the Democrats don't have a stomach for this fight. Harry Reid, facing a strong challenge for his Senate seat, this week broke with the president this week and said the mosque should get built elsewhere. At least he had the good grace not to paint them as the enemy.

Even if they apparently represent the other for so many "real" Americans.The controversy over plans to build a mosque in lower Manhattan near the World Trade... more

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Israel and the anti-Muslim blow-up

A quite chilling sermon about Muslims leaves people appalled. But with the... more

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Muslim Leadership Denounce Ground Zero Mosque, Dumb Libs Continue Their Undying Support! Whats Up With That?

A number of Al Azhar ulema expressed their opposition to building a mosque near... more

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Howard Dean Former DNC Chair the latest Dem to Spew Hatred!

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, in a surprise move Wednesday, became the second... more

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We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation

Raza says the building of this mosque is confrontational, in bad faith, and... more

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