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RALLY TO RESTORE SANITY vs. RALLY TO KEEP FEAR ALIVE: DUELING MARCHES ON WASHINGTON. STEWART vs. COLBERT

Mark your calendars. The Rally to Restore Sanity and the competing March to Keep Fear Alive will be held on Oct. 30 on the National Mall in Washington. Jon Stewart is taking his penchant for parody

Richard Kigel · Saturday, September 18th 2010 · 145 views · 1 comments

MUSLIMS, ISLAM AND PRAYER—LONG PART OF TWIN TOWER’S LIFE, by Samuel Freedman, New York Times, Sept. 11, 2010

NOTICING FELLOW MUSLIMS ON THE JOB, MR. ABDUS-SALAAM ASKED: “SO WHERE DO YOU PRAY?” THAT IS HOW HE LEARNED ABOUT THE MUSLIM PRAYER ROOM ON THE 17TH FLOOR OF THE SOUTH TOWER. HIS COMPANIONS IN THE P

Richard Kigel · Sunday, September 12th 2010 · 647 views · 1 comments

AN OPEN LETTER TO OSAMA BIN LADEN FROM A FORMER JIHADIST COMMANDER, Foreign Policy Magazine, Sept. 11, 20101

“WHAT HAS THE 11TH OF SEPTEMBER BROUGHT TO THE WORLD EXCEPT MASS KILLINGS, OCCUPATIONS, DESTRUCTION, HATRED OF MUSLIMS AND HUMILATION OF ISLAM? YOUR ACTIONS HAVE HARMED MILLIONS OF INNOCENT MUSLIMS A

Richard Kigel · Saturday, September 11th 2010 · 681 views · 1 comments

AT GROUND ZERO, 9/11 WIDOW WEEPS, MOURNS, PRAYS AND SEEKS COMFORT IN ALLAH, New York Times, Sept. 10, 2010

“WHEN I GO THERE I FEEL CLOSER TO HIM AND HIM TO ME,” SAID MRS. TRAORE OF HER HUSBAND, KILLED ON 9/11. WHEN SHE PRAYS, SHE CALLS GOD ALLAH. PRAYING IN THE PIT FEELS NATURAL, EVEN IF SOME OF THOSE ST

Richard Kigel · Saturday, September 11th 2010 · 866 views · 1 comments

ODD COUPLE? DID THEY SIT TOGETHER IN CIVICS CLASS? SHOULD WE TEST THE WATER, FIRE THE TEACHER?

Sept. 10—POLITICS DAILY--Terry Jones, the Florida pastor threatening to burn a Koran tomorrow on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, was a high school classmate of Rush Limbaugh. The Cape Centra

Richard Kigel · Friday, September 10th 2010 · 291 views · 1 comments

KORAN BURNING PASTOR: WHO IS THIS GUY? HIS PROBLEM WITH THE GERMAN GOV'T? HERE IS THE UNTOLD STORY...

Terry Jones, the pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center who plans to burn Korans on Saturday to the chagrin of many anti-Islam andanti-mosque advocates, has a long history of claiming that he is the

Richard Kigel · Thursday, September 9th 2010 · 336 views · 1 comments

BUILDING ON FAITH: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on Islamic Community Center in Manhattan, NY Times, Sept. 7, 2010

“THE WONDERFUL OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT FOR THIS COMMUNITY CENTER UNDERMINES THE ABILITY OF ANTI-AMERICAN RADICALS TO RECRUIT YOUNG, IMPRESSIONABLE MUSLIMS BY FALSELY CLAIMING THAT AMERICA PERSECUTES MUS

Richard Kigel · Thursday, September 9th 2010 · 519 views · 1 comments

JON STEWART TAKES DOWN RENEGADE PASTOR FOR “INTERNATIONAL BURN THE KORAN DAY” Daily Show, September 8, 2010

Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart had a field day mocking Florida pastor Terry Jones for organizing an "International Burn the Koran Day" on the upcoming ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attack

Richard Kigel · Thursday, September 9th 2010 · 340 views · 1 comments

GEN. PETRAEUS CONDEMNS U.S. CHURCH’S PLAN TO BURN QURANS, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 6, 2010

KABUL—The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort. Gen. David

Richard Kigel · Monday, September 6th 2010 · 591 views · 1 comments

MUSLIM GROUPS PUSH BACK AGAINST INCREASING HATE SPEECH, Talking Points Memo, Sept. 6, 2010

As anti-Muslim sentiment appears to be on the rise throughout the country, with high-profile protests against mosque construction and a handful of violent episodes against Muslims, Muslim groups are p

Richard Kigel · Monday, September 6th 2010 · 530 views · 1 comments

AMERICAN MUSLIMS ASK: WILL WE EVER BELONG? NY Times, Sept. 5, 2010

“WE WORRY: WILL WE EVER BE REALLY COMPLETELY ACCEPTED IN AMERICAN SOCIETY?” SAID DR. ASGHAR, AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON IN CINCINNATI. “IN NO OTHER COUNTRY COULD WE HAVE SUCH FREEDOMS. THAT IS WHY SO MAN

Richard Kigel · Monday, September 6th 2010 · 983 views · 1 comments

DEDICATED TO THOSE FOLKS WHO BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR ALWAYS HAVE TO FIGHT

Here they are, ordinary, peaceful folks trying to get away from the troubles and turmoils of the world by going to a tennis match here in Queens at the U. S. Open. Watch that sneaky grandpa at a

Richard Kigel · Friday, September 3rd 2010 · 722 views · 1 comments

THE NEW FAKE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH, Rachel Maddow, September 2, 2010

Mississippi governor and Presidential hopeful Haley Barbour develops a revisionist history of the Civil Rights movement. Here he goes into great detail about race relations, the Republican Party's "m

Richard Kigel · Friday, September 3rd 2010 · 1,487 views · 1 comments

FOR IMAM IN MUSLIM CENTER FUROR, A HARD BALANCING ACT, New York Times, August 22, 2010

“NOW HE HAS SET UP, UNWITTINGLY, A SYMBOL OF THE GROWING TENSION BETWEEN AMERICA AND MUSLIMS. THIS MOSQUE THAT MUSLIMS SEE AS A SYMBOL OF ISLAM UNDER ATTACK, OPPONENTS SEE AS AN INSULT TO AMERICA.”

Richard Kigel · Sunday, August 22nd 2010 · 536 views · 1 comments

THE NATIONAL SECURITY MOSQUE, by Ali Soufan, FORBES, August 18, 2010

FROM A NATIONAL SECURITY PERSPECTIVE, OUR LEADERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT NO ONE IS LIKELY TO BE HAPPIER WITH THE OPPOSITION TO BUIDLING A MOSQUE THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN. HIS NEXT VIDEO SCRIPT HAS JUST

Richard Kigel · Thursday, August 19th 2010 · 288 views · 1 comments

THE MONSTER THAT ATE MANHATTAN: THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING! QUICK! HIDE THE CHILDREN!

Mosque at Ground Zero? The issue is radioactive. The debate has been explosive. Rhetorical excess is running wild. And the battle is just heating up. We hear: “If we build the mosque it is

Richard Kigel · Thursday, August 19th 2010 · 367 views · 1 comments

MANHATTAN MOSQUE REMAINS LONG SHOT TO BE BUILT, Politico, August 19, 2010

When President Barack Obama turned the battle over a planned New York Islamic center into a national debate over religious freedom, he unwittingly allied himself and his party with an ill-planned, lon

Richard Kigel · Thursday, August 19th 2010 · 407 views · 1 comments

FOX NEWS FUNDS REPUBLICANS: Keith Olbermann, August 17, 2010

Q: Is it approprite for a news organization to be inolved in politics? Rupert Murdoch: No. I don't think we should be supporting the tea Party or any other party. Yet...News Corp gave the sin

Richard Kigel · Tuesday, August 17th 2010 · 294 views · 1 comments

RACHEL MADDOW TO RECEIVE 2010 WALTER CRONKITE AWARD

The Interfaith Alliance announced Monday that it would award its 2010 Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom award to the MSNBC anchor in honor of her work covering religion and politics. Maddow will receive

Richard Kigel · Tuesday, August 17th 2010 · 267 views · 1 comments

MUSLIM-AMERICAN REPUBLICANS PUSH BACK ON THEIR PARTY’S ANTI-MOSQUE RHETORIC, Huffington Post, August 16, 2010

“I HEAR NEWT GINGRICH CHATTER ABOURT SHARIA LAW,” SAID ONE FORMER BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL WHO IS MUSLIM. “I DON’T KNOW WHERE THIS IS COMING FROM. DID SOMEONE ACTUALLY SAY, ‘I WANT TO IMPOSE SH

Richard Kigel · Monday, August 16th 2010 · 813 views · 1 comments

MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO? MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN PRAYING INSIDE PENTAGON SINCE 2001, SALON, August 5, 2010

Navy imam Chaplain Abuhena M. Saifulislam lifted his voice to God as he called to prayer more than 100 Department of Defense employees Monday at a celebration of Ramadan at the Pentagon. God is mo

Richard Kigel · Monday, August 16th 2010 · 474 views · 1 comments

MOSQUES IN LOWER MANHATTAN? THERE ARE ALREADY TWO WITH LONGTERM ROOTS JUST BLOCKS FROM GROUND ZERO.

MASJID MANHATTAN, ON WARREN STREET, FOUR BLOCKS FROM GROUND ZERO, WAS FOUNDED IN 1970. MASJID AL-FARAH MOVED TO WEST BROADWAY IN 1985, ABOUT 12 BLOCKS FROM GROUND ZERO. BOTH HAVE EXISTED FOR DECADE

Richard Kigel · Monday, August 16th 2010 · 356 views · 1 comments

TESTIMONY OF FAITH IN CHRIST: YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW, YOLANDA ADAMS

This is for anyone who feels he has the authority to comment on Christian theology, spirituality, faith, scripture or any other aspect of Christ's teaching even though he has not experienced it for hi

Richard Kigel · Sunday, August 15th 2010 · 816 views · 1 comments

ANDERSON COOPER GRILLS REP. GOHMERT ON “TERROR BABY PLOT”: SCARE STORIES WITH NO EVIDENCE, AUGUST 13, 2010

Anderson Cooper got into a heated argument with Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert on the Thursday edition of "Anderson Cooper 360," as he repeatedly asked the Republican to provide him with proof of the

Richard Kigel · Saturday, August 14th 2010 · 792 views · 1 comments