Is there life after death?

This is perhaps the most fundamental question of the human condition. Is consciousness a phenomenon that is created by the brain and ceases to exist at the moment of death? Or does consciousness transcend the limitations of matter? Does some aspect of awareness, of sentience,...

Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a murderer and has brought great shame upon every American Muslim in the armed forces.

There are currently over 10,000 Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military, men and women who are patriotic and love their country and their fellow service members. Hasan’s evil...

It is the controversy that refuses to die - the now infamous Danish cartoons about Prophet Muhammad that caused much furor in the Muslim world a few years ago have appeared in the media spotlight again after Yale University Press decided not to print the caricatures in an upcoming book...

I am not a vegetarian or a vegan. But like most people of conscience, I was sickened and horrified to see the recent video taken by animal rights activists of baby chicks being ground alive at an egg hatchery. Seeing such cruel and heartless treatment of living beings has...

I returned last night from a week in France where a debate is raging over whether Muslim women should be permitted to wear the burqa, the traditional Middle Eastern garment that covers not only the whole body, but the face as well. President Nicholas Sarkozy unleashed a firestorm of controversy...

Last week I received my first death threat from a Taliban supporter. I knew when I wrote Mother of the Believers, my novel on the birth of Islam, that this day would come. And yet now that it has, I actually find myself smiling. Because I know that it...

President Barack Obama will give a highly anticipated speech to the Islamic world on June 4th in Cairo. There is a great deal of excitement in the Muslim community to hear what a President who shares a middle name with the grandson of Prophet Muhammad has to say. There are...

On the eve of President Barack Obama's historic address to the Muslim world from Cairo, I wanted to take a moment to highlight a small but poignant story - of a Muslim shopkeeper, the man who tried to rob him, and the common bond of faith and humanity that they...

Ron Howard's new adaptation of the Dan Brown book Angels and Demons represents a breakthrough in Hollywood's approach toward religion, taking the discussions of faith away from the extremes of proselytizing and rejection to the middle ground. That is where most believers are, and that is where great storytelling takes...

I have to thank Mortimer Zuckerman. It was because of him that I became one of the first successful Muslims in Hollywood.

But before I explain that comment, let me give you a little background on Mr. Zuckerman. As the Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News and World Report and the owner...

Gallup just published a remarkable report on the attitudes of Muslims and non-Muslims regarding Islam in Europe. One of the most striking points in the report was that 80% of French Muslims believed that Muslims were loyal to France. But only 44% of their non-Muslim countrymen believed Muslims were loyal....

Many Americans have expressed shock at news that some U.S. soldiers have been seeking to use their positions of power in Iraq and Afghanistan to preach Christianity. But this does not come as news to Muslims, who have been long aware of these proselytizing efforts at the end of...

The evil of suicide bombings must be defeated by Muslims, as it violates every tenet of Islam. In the past two days alone, at least 150 people were killed in Iraq in a wave of suicide bombings which have torn apart any illusion of security in that tragic country.

Today I had to refute yet again the Big Lie that hounds the Muslim community -- that we fail to speak out and condemn terrorism.

I was being interviewed by the wonderful radio host Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones about my new novel Mother of the Believers. Dr. Jones is a...

There has been a great deal of outrage in right-wing circles over President Barack Obama's very public handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and his efforts to thaw relations with Cuban President Raul Castro. The hyper-nationalist crowd is predictably calling Obama a traitor who is sucking up to foreign dictators...

Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann recently gave a radio interview in San Francisco where she questioned the patriotism of her colleague Rep. Keith Ellison, the first American Muslim elected to Congress. As a Muslim and a former Republican, I would like to respond. Bachmann's comments, where she derided Ellison for seeking...

This weekend, the Taliban murdered Sitara Achakzai, Afghanistan's leading activist for women's rights. She was gunned down in broad daylight by assassins in front of her house. Ms. Achakzai was an instrumental figure in promoting women's rights in the war torn country that has become the symbol of everything that...

It was speech that stirred my soul, both as an American and as a Muslim. The President of the United States stood before the parliament of Islam's oldest democracy in Turkey and delivered a riveting statement that will resonate throughout the Muslim world. He said what needed to be said...

The American Muslim community is reeling this week from news of the horrific beheading of Aasiya Hassan, allegedly by her husband Muzzammil Hassan. They were respected members of the community and co-founded BridgesTV, a television network ironically dedicated to fighting negative stereotypes of Muslims. As one of the first Muslims...