While discussing a significant event here in the United States with a friend of mine, we discovered that another friend, Robert, has a life story that truly speaks volumes to that event.

A radio interviewer asked me the other day if I thought bigotry was the only reason why someone might oppose the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. No, I don't.

It came as no surprise when I learned this morning that the mosque protests in New York City have assisted terrorists in their recruiting efforts.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a shot at those criticizing the construction of a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero on Tuesday, asking rhetorically...

The principles behind American secular law are similar to Shariah law - that we protect life, liberty and property, that we provide for the common welfare, that we maintain a certain amount of modesty.

Twelve months ago, many of today's most vocal opponents of the Cordoba House, the planned community center and mosque in New York City, were in favor of the plans, praising Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on Fox News and celebrating the concept as a move toward unity.

Daisy Khan is shocked. In a phone conversation with her minutes ago she said she couldn't believe that what had started out as "a community center for everyone in the neighborhood, to scale up and build up people of all religions has become so skewed.

If you've only left ten comments on Newsvine in the past few weeks, there's a strong chance that at least one of them was directly related to the Mosque being built near ground zero in New York City.

Obama didn't just stand up for the legal right of the group to build the Islamic center. He voiced powerful support for their moral right to do so as well, casting it as central to American identity.