As the debate over the Cordoba House escalates, some observers are seeing parallels between the culture war over Islam in America and the anti-semitism of years past. The Cordoba House, an Islamic ...

Cordoba House, for those who haven’t been following along, is the name of a proposed Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood, that would ...

A few weeks ago, on Slate’s Political Gabfest, I warned that the anti-Islam sentiment behind the Cordoba House controversy was a national security risk, saying, “By not allowing [Muslims] to be ...

A few years ago I sat in on a meeting between a prominent Washington journalist and a group of foreign reporters. The journalist told the group that few Americans, even members of Congress knew the ...

The situation is changing faster than I can blog it! (See my previous series of posts on Cordoba House.) In response to an op-ed in The New York Times written by our partner in Park51, Imam Feisal ...

After Obama’s strong statement on Friday in defense of religious freedom and the right of Muslims to build Cordoba House near Ground Zero, I wondered if other Democrats would feel they now had cover ...

Nearly everyone in America has weighed in on the Cordoba House, a YMCA-like Islamic community center planned for two block away from the former World Trade Center in New York. But there's one person ...

Park51, originally named Cordoba House, is a planned 13-story Muslim community center to be located two blocks from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. The majority of the center will be ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Strange it might be, but Cordoba House has become a major story—at the moment perhaps the biggest story in ...