Flap Over Muslim Community Center In New York: History Is Repeating Itself…Again
August 29, 2010 1 Comment
The recent flap over the Cordoba House, the Muslim community center that will include a mosque that is proposed to be built near the site of the World Trade Center in New York—Ground Zero, one of the targets of the September 11, 2001 attacks, draws disappointing and dangerous parallels to what Americans of Japanese ancestry faced before, during and after World War II.
Two recent stories and a radio interview highlight these parallels and the dangerous road our nation appears to be traveling down once again.
Jeffrey Feldman in the Huffington Post: “Ground Zero Mosque” Is the New “Death Panels.”
Scott Kurashige in the Informed Comment blog: Kurashige: The Islamic Center and the “Pearl Harbor” Analogy
Kurashige was also the guest on PRI’s The World: Buddhism and Islam In America. You can listen to the interview by clicking on the right arrow below:
Unless otherwise specified, all stories, images, video and audio content on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. You may copy, distribute and/or transmit any story, image, video or audio content published on this site under the terms of this license, but only if proper attribution is indicated. The full name of the author and a link back to the original article on this blog are required.
The audio interview linked above is © 2011 PRI’s The World.
Pingback: Tweets that mention Flap Over Muslim Community Center In New York: History Is Repeating Itself…Again « Manzanar Committee -- Topsy.com