Cordoba
Hertzberg On Cordoba
This is such an excellent passage I'll simply excerpt it here without comment: READ MORE >>
The Mosque Is In Trouble, Very Big Trouble
Nancy Pelosi who always has her ear to the ground for a simple-minded explanation of an intricate matter has demanded to know whose money is behind the campaign against the Ground Zero mosque. Maybe she can't imagine anything other than a grand conspiracy: maybe Glenn Beck or David Koch, maybe Sarah Palin or some other ditzy lady with access to right-wing money. READ MORE >>
Mosque Notes
The Subversive Theology of Imam Rauf (Cont’d.)
The fervent mosque-haters have this much right: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Sufi leader of the Cordoba Initiative that plans to build an Islamic center on Park Place near the site of the World Trade Center, is subversive. But what he wants to subvert is not the United States of America. What he wants to subvert are dictatorships in Islamic nations. READ MORE >>
The Maskings of a Mosque
The folk who planned the mosque at the World Trade Center could not have expected but that their project would be much resented, not just in New York but across America. And so it happened: as soon as it became clear that the municipal elite, spearheaded by Mayor Bloomberg who hasn't a single democratic cell in his brain, would act as if a Muslim religious center in the very orbit of Ground Zero was an ordinary happening a groundswell of sensitive men and women -a large majority of Americans, actually- believe that it isn't. READ MORE >>
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-- Bennet Ramberg asks, "Should Israel come out of the nuclear closet?" -- Joshua Prager remembers Bobby Thomson. -- Romanian punter discovers the American dream. READ MORE >>
An Answer For Marty
Marty, continuing TNR's rich tradition of internal debate, lobs a question my way about the Park51 project, originally named "Cordoba House": READ MORE >>
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-- As Steven Benen puts it, "Try to contain your surprise": News Corporation gives $1 million to the Republican Governors Association. -- Roger Simon has some fun with the idea of "Obama the one-term president." -- Robert Walker suggests climate advocates can learn from the NRA. READ MORE >>
Terrorism And The Mosque
Apparently, Muslims are also not particularly stirred by the president’s policies. They wanted him to be more forthright and more forthcoming on their issues as he had indicated he would be in his much-vaunted “new beginning” speech last year in Cairo. READ MORE >>
