Sentences with phrase «islamic centers»

The thriving Japanese religious landscape is much more diverse than most outsiders realize, with many so - called new religious movements, in addition to Christian churches and Islamic centers.

Rather than be afraid, we're encouraging them to be open and to let people come to their Islamic centers.»

It's that way across America, after a spate of violence at Islamic centers in recent weeks that included a homemade bomb and pigs parts.

Magnificent Buddhist temples in California and Maryland, ornate Hindu manders in the outskirts of Los Angeles, Nashville and Pittsburg, and grand, austere Islamic centers in uptown Manhattan, outside the Washington beltway and in the suburbs ringing Chicago — all these offer visible support for the argument of Harvard professor Diana Eck that the U.S. has become «the world's most religiously diverse nation.»

BAN ALL ISLAMIC CENTERS NOW!

The late Pope John Paul II has been described as the inspiration for a possible compromise to the dispute over the proposed Islamic center and mosque in the World Trade Center vicinity - that it be withdrawn and built elsewhere, much as the late pontiff had canceled plans for a convent near the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The fire, which struck early Saturday morning at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, is under investigation by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office.

And so, this October before the controversy with my friend Larycia, we were already meeting with the Islamic Center of Wheaton because of their generous open houses.

They rightly insisted on the constitutional principle that government could not intervene, but then they drew the conclusion that the discussion should thus be over» and that only bigots and un-American theocrats would continue agitating against an Islamic center near Ground Zero.

Religion News Service: U.S. mosques hit by shortage of imams The Spokane Islamic Center wants something mosques all across the country are seeking and can't seem to find: an educated, bilingual, experienced imam who understands American culture.

I loved the responses from the director of the Islamic center as well as the rabbi.

Editor's Note: Imam Khalid Latif is a chaplain for New York University and executive director of the school's Islamic Center.

The imam behind the proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero is largely avoiding New York City because of security concerns and is receiving protection from the New York Police Department, according to those close to the imam.

But in February 2008, the Islamic Center of Columbia was destroyed in a fire.

Religion News Service: Pool of American imams too small to meet the demand The Islamic Center of New England has always been led by imams born outside America.

In fact, Romney issued a statement opposing the construction of the Islamic center.

Islamic Center Sucks!

«Building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain - unnecessarily - and that is not right,» said the organization in a statement.

(CNN)- Worshippers at an Islamic center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, will have to wait a few more weeks before they can use their new mosque, officials said Thursday.

The attempt to build a large, new mosque and Islamic center anywhere near the site of the World Trade Center is so offensive, so bizarre, and so deliberate that it should be stopped.

Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam.

The controversy which has emerged regarding the building of an Islamic Center at this location is counterproductive to the healing process.

In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain — unnecessarily — and that is not right.

I'm not at all surprised, «Opponent of NYC Islamic center becomes advocate for mosques nationwide.»

«In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain - unnecessarily - and that is not right,» the statement continued.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the public face of a recent political firestorm surrounding the construction of an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, is now spearheading what he calls the Cordoba Movement.

Musri said he did not tell Jones that the Islamic center project would be moved away from ground zero.

Donald Trump says; «NY Islamic Center site is all about the money».

When the Anti-Defamation League - a leading Jewish group devoted to fighting anti-Semitism and «all forms of bigotry» - came out against the construction of an Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero last year, some critics alleged that the organization had lost its way.

With the controversy over the site and substance of his proposed Islamic center now spanning the globe, the imam is relying on an informal cabinet of faith - based advisors, many of them Christian and Jewish, for crisis management advice and moral support during the most difficult public crisis of his life.

The coalition's first project was advocating for a proposed 52,000 - square - foot Islamic center and mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, that was facing local opposition last fall.

The plans were to eventually grow the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro to 52,000 square feet and will include the mosque, school, gym and a swimming pool.

The U.S. Justice Department also filed a brief for the mosque, and in November a judge refused to issue an order to halt construction of the Islamic center.

Some prominent Muslims who the ADL later asked to join its Interfaith Coalition on Mosques declined the invitation, citing the group's stance on the New York Islamic center.

I think Mr. Trump idea it is great but at the same time I think if all the people that live in the New York City area they can put 1 or 2 dollars each they can buy the block where, I hope not, they are going to built the islamic center, it is DISRESPECTFUL for all the families and friends of 9/11 tragedy.

I hear there's a Big & Tall Men's clothing store even closer to Ground Zero than the proposed Islamic center is.

The Islamic Center should be built there as any other religious center is allowed to be.

Imam Muhammad Musri said Jones may have hatched the story about the Islamic center moving to «give himself a reason to call this off.»

A handful of Christian leaders discouraged Rauf from meeting the Rev. Terry Jones - who'd threatened to burn Qurans unless Rauf moved his proposed Islamic center and mosque further from ground zero - and organized a phone call with Jones last weekend to urge him to cancel his Quran burning.

I don't doubt, «Opponent of NYC Islamic center becomes advocate for mosques nationwide.»

Falls Church, Virginia (CNN)-- Worshippers hurried by a host of cameras and reporters on their way to Friday prayers at the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center.

(CNN)- A Florida Muslim leader is disputing claims by the Rev. Terry Jones that he brokered a deal to get the Islamic center project near New York's ground zero moved if the pastor called off his Quran burning event.

Stephen Prothero, a prominent religion professor and CNN Belief Blog contributor, said the ADL's opposition to the Lower Manhattan Islamic center showed that the group and its leader, Abraham L. Foxman, «no longer occupy a moral high ground.»

Worshippers at the Islamic Center of North America in Michigan react to a thwarted attack on the mosque.

«Proponents of the Islamic center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam,» the ADL said in announcing its position on the proposed New York Islamic center last summer.

In 2009, they purchased 15 acres of land for a new Islamic center a few miles to the east.

But several months after the controversy over the New York Islamic center has died down, the Anti-Defamation League has quietly emerged as a leading advocate for mosque construction projects that have run into local opposition across the country.

«I think he should have gotten a proper burial as a Muslim, but as a human being I don't think he was right for his mentality and his morality,» said Jouwad Syed, who recently started attending the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center.

The # of mosques in US are getting different shape & form calling them Islamic center, which is not alarming for the west.

Go spew this down south near an abortion clinic and let us know how that goes, or where an islamic center is about to be built.