Sentences with phrase «muslim community center»

Bob Turner, the Republican chalenger to U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D - Forest Hills), called plans to build a Muslim community center two blocks from Ground Zero «salt in our wounds.»

Pataki went on to lambaste the president's Mideast policies («I think the president clearly needs to rethink completely his approach towards Israel») and to express his disgust at the plans for a Muslim community center a few blocks from Ground Zero («I think it's a terrible idea.

On Aug. 10, 2010, Lieberman said during an «Imus in the Morning» interview that he was «troubled» by plans to construct a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero, adding:

As long as the Muslim community center meets the zoning requirements of New York City (which it did), why do people like you have the right to say something shouldn't be built on private property many miles away from your home.

The online video is an effort to fight back against «the rising tide of fear - mongering» resulting from plans to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan in New York, the group behind it said.

Some time after morning prayer at the Maine Muslim Community Center on Andersen Street in Portland ended Monday, someone spray painted «Osama Today, Islam Tomorrow» and «Go Home» on the front and side of the building.

You were totally cool with the proposed muslim community center building plans right?

Question: Any christians out here that also defended the muslim community center to be built at ground zero?

If you think New York needs a Muslim Community Center, then put it where it belongs, at the UN Plaza Building where all nations truly can enjoy it, not where people of said religion murdered our people.

From what I understand, its a Muslim community center and all are welcome.

Duysak is a former volunteer security guard at a Muslim community center in California, BuzzFeed reported.

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I am a Muslim and contribute to all charities that serve our communities whether it is diabled veterans, the police, St. Jude's, ADA, Doctor's w / o borders, Neighbohood Health centers and so on.

She said that the community center in debate is basically a JCC type of organization with the difference being that it is run by people of Muslim faith.

-- Frankie, I did graduate research among the Muslim communities in the NYC area way back in the 1990s, before even the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.

Also, I'd like to know if there was any talk at all about how they'd keep more extremist branches of muslims from holding classes, etc in their community center, will it be available for Christians and Jews and everyone else in the neighborhood to use without harrassment?

The survey came against the background of a number of controversies touching the American Muslim community, ranging from King's hearings to the debate over plans to build an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.

The boycott stood in a stark contrast to the goodwill the mayor earned among Muslim leaders when he defended plans for a controversial Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhcenter near the former site of the World Trade Center in Lower ManhCenter in Lower Manhattan.

why don't we just follow the simple example set in every muslim nation and allow them to build their mosques and «community centers» when they allow churches and synagogues to be built inn their countries.

mary: the compassionate thing is to build a community center, to teach all people that many muslims are kind, decent, caring people.

American Christians, Muslims and those of other faiths are divided over what to do about a proposed Islamic community center near ground zero in New York, a new poll shows.

Members of southern Maine's Muslim community are expressing outrage after their community center was spray painted with hurtful messages in response to the death of Osama bin Laden.

Oh yes, I completely agree, if only Muslim leaders protested against the building of an Islamic Community Center 2 blocks from Ground Zero (6 blocks from where the Towers actually stood), then the entire divide between Christianity and Islam would just fade away and we could all dance around a camp fire singing the coca - cola song!

An educated and worldly Muslim community leader like Rauf wants to build Muslim center close to ground zero, while the war and other thing is going, is this a common sense or decency have been exercise or just Muslims self - absorption and taking no responsibility of their own community conduct, they should not be crying like a spoil baby, when a ripple affect from their own conduct come back toward them (The Burning of Koran and fire attempt toward Muslim community were coming from his fake and insincere agenda on this building issue).

by relocating an Islamic center, then the problem lies in the Muslim community.

In an interview on Monday with Fox13now in Salt Lake City, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch said he would be «the first to stand up» for the rights of Muslims to build an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero.

You would think that most Jewish leaders in America would have a special sensitivity to the vitriol pouring out against Muslims concerning the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero.

They spread hate and fear every chance they get and lest we forget, these Christian conservatives whining about their «religious freedoms» now, are the SAME people who didn't give a rat's - about the religious rights of Muslims who wanted to build a community center in NY.

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg sees no reason to investigate the Muslim group that plans to build a 13 - story mosque and community center near Ground Zero.

5:30 PM Karim Camara, Executive Director of NYS Office of Faith Based Community Development Services, Delivers Regional Budget Briefing Jamaica Muslim Center 85 - 37 168st Street Jamaica, NY

At 6 p.m., Klein, Gjonaj, Torres, the Bronx Defenders, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and others host a Know Your Rights forum to address immigration rights for Muslim community members, Bronx Muslim Center at 702 Rhinelander Ave., the Bronx.

Describing a «parade of hateful acts» across the state — including swastika graffiti in playgrounds, assaults on Muslims and gays and bomb threats at Jewish community centers and the Midtown Manhattan headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League — Mr. Cuomo said...

Brooklyn Borough Hall sits just blocks from Atlantic Avenue, formerly the core of the city's Arab community, and which still includes a number of Middle Eastern shops and Muslim religious centers.

«Just yesterday during a community discussion on immigration at the Jamaica Muslim Center, I again criticized the lack of consistency and standards in which agents enforce immigration policies at our airports and borders, and how they randomly pop up at courts and hospitals.

On the evening of November 16, more than 700 people packed the Sunnyside Community Services Center to speak out against Trump's and Vice President - elect Mike Pence's structural and systematic racism toward the Muslim and other immigrant communities, as well as their misogyny and homophobia.

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As a community outreach project, guide students to connect with community centers, schools, and libraries to share their own personal narratives or conduct their own interviews based on ideas and questions prompted by Malala Yousafzai and the Girls of Pakistan and Interviews with Muslim Women.

Still, at the mosque's opening, the mood was positively joyous, with speakers from Muslim communities in Venice and Iceland talking about how important the work was (the city's historical center has never had a mosque) and art - world denizens, shoes off, sitting on the ground and listening alongside the faithful.

Adhikaar * Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) * Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts (AALAM) * Asian Employee Network at American Express (ANA - New York) * Asian Outreach Project of Greater Boston Legal Services * Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of NJ (APALA - NJ) * Charles B. Wang Community Health Center (CBWCHC) * Chhaya CDC * Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) * Korean American Bar Association of New Jersey (KABA - NJ) * Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York (KALAGNY) * MinKwon Center for Community Action * Muslim Bar Association of New York (MuBANY) * National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum NYC Chapter (NAPAWF * NYC) * Pilipino American Unity for Progress NY (UniPro NY) * South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) * South Asian Bar Association of Washington DC (SABA - DC) * South Asian Fund for Education Scholarship Training (SAFEST)