Civil Rights | Religious Freedom

2010-09-03: Headlines

Appleton Post Crescent: column: Religious pluralism here to stay in our nation 2010-09-03
There are two mosques in the Fox River Valley. There,s a synagogue in Appleton and a modest Sikh temple, too. There are Hindus and Buddhists living around us and you may be one of them.
National Post: postmedianews: Heaven tops hell in Canadian belief poll 2010-09-03
The 80-question, mail-in survey, compiled in February by the Carleton University Survey Centre and the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies, reveals a nation struggling to reconcile doubts and contradictions regarding religious faith while exhibiting a definite yearning for the comfort that comes with believing in a higher power.
Personal Liberty Digest: Religious Leaders Denounce Planned Koran Burning Event 2010-09-03
SA. Spread the gospel of Jesus Christ by your actions in your daily life so others can see that you are sincere and committed to living a Christ like life. | If you can burn the American flag. You can burn every Koran you can find ! | Unless you refuse to coddle these self-rightous terrorists idiots, you will have to eventually accept them. And I believe that the majority of Americans will not stand for that.

Richmond Times Dispatch: Area religious leaders to call for civility in light of New York controversy 2010-09-02
As people trickle in for the midday prayer, some remain from the previous night, living out of sleeping bags in the mosque at the Islamic Center of Virginia in Chesterfield County until the end of Ramadan next week. | Some sit gathered around a laptop, listening to Quran chants.
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times: Sensible views need further consideration 2010-09-02
The mosque would be objectionable if its proponents held the same beliefs as the terrorists. Fourteen centuries ago, Prophet Muhammad categorically forbade Muslims from harming innocents of any faith. He famously encouraged Christian priests to worship in his mosque. | In his letter to the St. Catherine Monastery, he guaranteed complete religious freedom to Christians in Arabia.

UConn Daily Campus: NYC Islamic center protected by Constitution 2010-09-01
The proposed construction of Cordoba House, a Muslim worship complex in New York City, involves more than mere sensitivities and political correctness. It is an issue of religious freedom, property rights and post-9/11 skepticism. While the owners of 45 Park Place have every legal right to build their community center (not just a mosque, on which the television news media has focused), it would be wiser to move it elsewhere. The attempt at...

Georgia Bulletin: Catholic Communications: Religious leaders urge Congress to keep religious hiring rights intact 2010-08-31
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The Tennessean: Candlelight vigil shines light on religious freedom 2010-08-31
Hundreds of First Amendment supporters turned out in front of the RutherfordCounty Courthouse Monday evening for a candlelight vigil organizedby Middle Tennesseans for ReligiousFreedom. | The vigil came about three days after fire destroyed an earth hauler that sat with other construction equipment at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro on Veals Road at Bradyville Pike.