Rabbi Brad Hirschfield responds to the heated debate surrounding Park51. "If you're more animated by the date September 11, 2001, you're probably going to be opposed to [the Park51 project]. If you're more animated by July 4, 1776, you're probably going to be in favor of it."

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By Rick Carrol from The Aspen Times, 8/30/10

Rabbi Irwin Kula looks at Islamophobia with hosts John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee. Said Rabbi Kula, "What we have to be on the lookout for is not the bigots and the racists. See that we always know, there's always a strand of that in the culture. It's the good people, the decent people who begin to say all billion and six Muslims are dangerous. Or the stuff, 'they're going to take over.' Those kinds of tropes are what we have to be on the lookout for."

Rabbi Irwin Kula looks at Islamophobia with hosts John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee. Said Rabbi Kula, "What we have to be on the lookout for is not the bigots and the racists. See that we always know, there's always a strand of that in the culture. It's the good people, the decent people who begin to say all billion and six Muslims are dangerous. Or the stuff, 'they're going to take over.' Those kinds of tropes are what we have to be on the lookout for."

"...Whether one opposes the mosque or not, this proposed Koran burning is obscene. Tragically and ironically, this is an expression of Christianity which parallels the parts of Islam which represent a genuine threat to the human race. I guess it's an irony Pastor Jones misses, but reminds us all that it's not the faith which kills; it's the fanatical attachment to it..."

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield discusses the controversy surrounding the mosque near Ground Zero with Mario Solis Marich.

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The Mario Solis Marich Show, Progressive Talk AM 760, KKZN, Denver, 8/23/10

Also spoke on this topic on Aaron in the Afternoon, on KLFD, St. Cloud, Minn.,8/13/10

"Romania’s central bank on Thursday said it would not withdraw from circulation a coin featuring an image of a prime minister who stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II, stressing it had not intended to send an anti-Semitic message..."

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By Brad Hirschfield from Patheos.com’s Rabbi Hirschfield on God, Life, and the Universe

Rabbi Irwin Kula joins host Lauren Green and other panelists to look at the controversy over the building of the Mosque near Ground Zero.

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Rabbi Brad Hirschfield speaks to KMOX host Jon Grayson about the growing debate over the Mosque/Cultural Center in lower Manhattan.

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From "Overnight America with Jon Grayson," (KMOX, St. Louis)

Rabbi Hirschfield was also on the "Russ Morley Show" on WFTL, FL, 8/23/10 (not available)

Fred Thompson and Rabbi Irwin Kula discuss the issues the mosque controversy brings up.

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From The Fred Thompson Show, 8/19/10

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield speaks with Mike Siegel about the controversy over the building of an Islamic center near Ground Zero.

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From the Lars Larson Show syndicated by Compass Media Networks, 8/18/10