Civil Rights,
Books
Oct. 28, 2010
Working Toward a More Tolerant Society
An analysis of Imam Rauf's book, What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West. By Los Angeles lawyer Stephen Rohde.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
At the center of the recent overheated controversy that became - misleadingly - known as the "Ground Zero Mosque," was Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
Newt Gingrich compared Rauf and other supporters of the Muslim community center and mosque to be built several blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, to "Nazis" who have no "right to put up a sign next to the holocaust museum in Washington." But New York mayor Michael Bloomberg defended Rauf. He quoted Rauf's r...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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