From: Yahoo News / AP
NYC mosque debate will shape American Islam
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100830/ap_on_re_us/us_nyc_mosque_fallout;_ylt=Au5Abq5XdQlD.PG4Y_Pfd_BH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTNhMGVmM2RxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwODMwL3VzX255Y19tb3NxdWVfZmFsbG91dARjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzUEcG9zAzUEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNueWNtb3NxdWVkZWI-
Adnan Zulfiqar, a graduate student, former U.S. Senate aide and American-born son of Pakistani immigrants, will soon give the first khutbah, or sermon, of the fall semester at the University of Pennsylvania. His topic has presented itself in the daily headlines and blog posts over the disputed mosque near ground zero.
What else could he choose, he says, after a summer remembered not for its reasoned debate, but for epithets, smears, even violence?
As he writes, Zulfiqar frets over the potential fallout and what he and other Muslim leaders can do about it. Will young Muslims conclude they are second-class citizens in the U.S. now and always? . . . .
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