Religious Values, American Ideals, and NYC Islamic Center
Watch excerpts from August 17 remarks made by religious leaders at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and American ideals and values and the controversy over building an Islamic community center near Ground Zero. Speakers are Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation; Ibrahim Abdil-Mu’id Ramey of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation; Ron Cruz of Pax Christi USA; Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia; and Corey Saylor, legislative director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.