Religion & Spirituality
Ben Sargent | Pilgrims (Only) Free to Practice Religion / Slate.com
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 11:09 — Dave CulverFrom Death to Life: Mother forgives son's killer
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 10:59 — Dave CulverJohnson and Israel hope to bring other families of violence together for forgiveness. They also plan to write a book together with dreams of eventually building a grief center in north Minneapolis.
Renee Tessman, KARE-TV | MN
Families of 9/11 Victims Rally in Support of 51Park Islamic Center
Thu, 08/26/2010 - 09:14 — Dave CulverTheir group, called September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, will also be joined by at least 40 religious and civic organizations.
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
Some family members of 9/11 victims will rally today (August 25) in support of the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City.
Their group, called September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, will also be joined by at least 40 religious and civic organizations, and is expected to announce the creation of a coalition called New York Neighbors for American Values to promote religious tolerance.
Related:
Zero Tolerance, Progress Report, in Newsvine.com
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What would Martin Luther King Say? Mosques and the New Jim Crow in America
Tue, 08/24/2010 - 11:57 — Dave Culver
- Muslim Americans are Americans. There can be no government Establishment of Judeo-Christian traditions, and no prohibition on how and where Muslim Americans worship. We are seeing attempts to foment a new Jim Crow, centered on mosques, which involves all the same fear-mongering, segregation, and special pleading for the majority that characterized the old (Jim Crow).
- The Community Center at Park 51
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
The demonstration held on Sunday (Aug 22) against the Park 51 Muslim community center in lower Manhattan was an attempt by the right wing to strike at first amendment freedoms, but at the same time, it was simply a revival of urban policies of discrimination that were routine in the last century.
That the demonstration had racist overtones is clear from this video of the event at YouTube, which caught the crowd’s harassment of and near attack on an African-American carpenter the rightwingers perceived as a Park 51 supporter. He is caught on audio pointing out that the mob actually did not have the slightest idea what he thought about anything.