Initial court proceedings began Wednesday in a lawsuit against Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who plans to build an Islamic community center near ground zero, and his company, Sage Development.
Imam says in retrospect he wouldn't have proposed an Islamic Center near ground zero because of the controversy.
The imam whose proposed Islamic center near ground zero has stirred a passionate controversy is now the defendant in a lawsuit, according the paperwork filed Tuesday at Hudson County Superior Court.
Bill Maher sounds off on the Islamic center controversy, the war on terror and U.S. relations with nonradical Muslims.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations about the proposed Islamic center in New York.
Saying America has let extremists "hijack the agenda," the imam behind a controversial proposal to place an Islamic community center and mosque near Manhattan's ground zero said Monday he wants to create a platform where the voice of moderate Muslims can be amplified.
The world wants to like America. The guiding values that Thomas Jefferson articulated so eloquently -- life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- resonate strongly around the world, transcending countless superficial and cultural differences, not because these are American values, but because they are universal values, embedded in the human heart.
Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf speaks about healing relations between Muslim-Americans and their neighbors and spreading peace.
An evangelist in contact with the Rev. Terry Jones said the Florida pastor "has agreed in principle" not to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday.
President Obama says that burning the Quran could cause profound damage worldwide.
The imam has stepped into the fray before.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the NYC Islamic center, says they will proceed with plans to build it.
A Florida pastor who called off a Quran burning said late Thursday he would "rethink our position" after a Muslim leader said the minister incorrectly announced that the proposed Islamic center near New York's ground zero would be moved as part of a deal.
The religious leader behind plans to erect an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York's ground zero said Wednesday night that America's national security depends on how it handles the controversy.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf says radicals are hijacking the talk about the Islamic center and he didn't foresee the problem.
Both Pastor Terry Jones and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf broke their strange silence, and we got a glimpse into the state of their minds Tuesday -- Jones on CNN's "AC360°" with Anderson Cooper and Feisal in a New York Times op-ed piece.
"We are proceeding with the community center, Cordoba House. More important, we are doing so with the support of the downtown community, government at all levels and leaders from across the religious spectrum, who will be our partners. I am convinced that it is the right thing to do for many reasons."
The imam at the center of an ugly controversy over an Islamic center near New York's ground zero broke his silence Tuesday, just hours after a broad coalition of Christian, Jewish and Islamic leaders denounced what they described as a rising tide of anti-Muslim bigotry across the United States.
The State Department learned Friday that the imam behind the controversial Park51 Islamic community center project has not returned home after a State Department-sponsored tour in the Middle East.
Some lawmakers have urged the State Department to rethink plans to sponsor the imam behind a controversial mosque on a trip to the Middle East.
Akbar Ahmed, a professor of Islamic studies, spoke to CNN about his year long study of Islam in America.
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