Congressman Peter King of Long Island is a tough-talking, no-nonsense New Yorker, but those who have followed his career know that he is not unfamiliar with the choreographed niceties of diplomacy. Mr. King was a major player in the Irish peace process in the 1990s, intervening in that once-intractable conflict to help bring about a Read More
So far, the debate over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero has unfolded along predictable lines, with the man at the center of the project, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, drawing attacks from the right painting him as a terrorist sympathizer with and the .
But meanwhile, links between the group behind the controversial mosque, the Read More
Plenty of conservatives have made loud remarks about the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, but Bill Keller — a Florida televangelist who hosts the online ministry Live Prayer, and who confusingly shares a name with the executive editor of The New York Times — has done the impossible. He’s managed to somehow inspire rage from Read More
Take a gander of the city’s tallest building this evening if you can. For the first time ever, the Empire State Building will be lit up for an Islamic holiday. In this case, the color’s green and the holiday’s Eid-al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan.
