Karen Armstrong on the 'Ground Zero Mosque' Debate

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Karen Armstrong, founder of the Charter for Compassion, discusses recent controversy over the planned building of a mosque and Islamic community center two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center. She argues that it's important to "make room for the other," and concludes that the center could serve to "make peace at the site of tragedy."

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Karen Armstrong discusses "The Mystery of Compassion" in collaboration with the Chautauqua Institution's 2010 Summer Lecture Series. This program was recorded on August 20, 2010.

Karen Armstrong is a British author of numerous works on comparative religion, who first rose to prominence in 1993 with her highly successful A History of God. A former Catholic nun, she asserts that, "All the great traditions are saying the same thing in much the same way, despite their surface differences." They each have in common, she says, an emphasis on the transcendent importance of compassion, as epitomized in the so-called Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Awarded the $100,000 TED Prize in February 2008, she called for drawing up a Charter for Compassion in the spirit of the Golden Rule, to identify shared moral priorities across religious traditions, in order to foster global understanding. It was unveiled in Washington, D.C. in November 2009. Signatories include Prince Hassan of Jordan, the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson. - Chautauqua Institution

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[ranoir]

@eirefrance Wow you're responding to a post I made almost a year ago! I'm flattered that my post would be provoking enough that you'd feel a need to respond nearly a year later. Thanks.

By the way you're right. He "wanted to build a mosque". They were supposed to break ground on Sept 11, but this didn't happen. The muslims and their apologists/supporters never expected in organized infidel resistance.

[eirefrance]

@ranoir That's funny, because the guy who wanted to build the mosque doesn't support wearing the burqa. But why KNOW things? It's easier to be a stupid shit for brains.

[wawadoobs]

Islam is not Christianity. But it is as Christian as Judaism.

[mardinieng]

That woman's writings are full of Historical Mistakes when she writes about Islam ..i read for her and it was a painful process to see all those essential mistakes been spread in her writings , she is no trusted as an authenticated source about Islam .

[Stacer86]

@ateupsoldier Funny to whom? Jeffrey Dahmer? Oh and you.

[ateupsoldier]

@aburashdan did you see that video of the muslims getting pissed on by the marines? That was pretty funny huh....... BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[zbvvc]

@ateupsoldier you understand violent thats what america always does,

[BelligerentPacifist]

@deluxsound123 Wait for your death, and I'll make it point to ask you of your state when the Hour falls.

[deluxsound123]

Another wacko baby boomer getting older and embracing religion. The world will be better off when everyone that is 60 and older drop fuckin dead. And yes even my mother in her old age is starting to embrace it and it makes me sick. Islam is a shit religion and Mohammad can suck my balls and fuck the Jews too and Christians.

[karlsmith00]

@aburashdan that mosque hasn't "been made." muslims are praying in that burlington coat factory where the landing gear from one of the planes fell through the roof, but nothing has been built.

the building needs to be torn down, they need $150 million, and they need unions to agree to work on it. none of that will ever happen. get over it.