Jordan Sekulow, 11.24.2009
Democracy's 'War on Islam' is exactly the war Islamic terrorists have been hoping to ignite, and we must not let them succeed. It is time for peaceful, ordinary Muslim Americans to put their collective foot down.
Joan Z. Shore, 11.24.2009
Co-founder, Women Overseas for Equality (Belgium)
Had it been a Christian or a Jew who slaughtered thirteen people in one mad frenzy, I doubt there would have been much psycho-analysis of the murderer and his motives. It was a ghastly criminal act, period.
Qanta Ahmed, MD, 11.19.2009
Board Certified Physician, Internationally Published Author, "In the Land of Invisible Women".
Never has there been a more important time for Muslims to engage in greater introspection, self-evaluation. We face a Muslim world rife with conflicts, sectarian hatred, misogyny and injustice.
Deanne Stillman, 11.19.2009
author of Mustang, Twentynine Palms
Should someone be thrown out of the army if their business card identifies the bearer as an "SOA" (soldier of Allah)?
Probably not, but that, along w...
Jim Luce, 11.17.2009
Thought Leaders and Global Citizens
"Polio is only a plane ride away."
So began my sobering
interview with Carol Pandak, Manager of PolioPlus
for Rotary International about polio, a cr...
Mark Joseph, 11.14.2009
Mark Joseph is a producer, author, talk show host and editor of Bullypulpit.com
As President Obama arrives in Tokyo, he finds himself, strangely enough, at the epicenter of the latest in the war of words between Christianity and I...
Brian Levin, J.D., 11.13.2009
Director, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, California State University
For Obama, the ability to showcase our justice system in a case involving one of the world's most reviled accused terrorists represents an important opportunity to define America before history and the world.
Naazish YarKhan, 11.12.2009
Content and Media Strategist, Editor, Writer, Educator
I am shocked, but should I really be? Yesterday the Illinois GOP issued a press release baselessly accusing a respected Islamic civil rights organization of being anti-Semitic.
Amy Novogratz, 11.12.2009
Director of the TED Prize, an initiative of the TED Conference.
Today, the culmination of more than a year's work was unveiled as the Charter for Compassion was officially introduced in Washington, D.C. Read the Charter and join people around the world in affirming it.
Sabria Jawhar, 11.11.2009
Journalist
Nearly a year after Saudi King Abdullah warned religious scholars that issuing careless fatwas gives extremists credibility, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs has finally said enough is enough.
Qanta Ahmed, MD, 11.11.2009
Board Certified Physician, Internationally Published Author, "In the Land of Invisible Women".
Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.
Michael J.W. Stickings, 11.10.2009
Founder and editor of The Reaction, a liberal political blog
Without rushing to prejudicial conclusions, after all, we do need to consider the possibility that Nidal Malik Hasan's Muslim faith played a major role, if not necessarily the dominant one, in what happened.
Parvez Ahmed, 11.12.2009
U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor at University of North Florida
Why was Hasan not booted out of the service he so ungratefully and desperately wanted to leave? In the absence of concrete answers, the media is left to speculate.
Kamran Pasha, 11.06.2009
Hollywood filmmaker, author of "Mother of the Believers"
I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He and Hasan prayed side-by-side at the mosque the morning of the massacre. He agreed to share his story with me if I granted him anonymity.
Jon Soltz, 11.06.2009
Co-Founder of VoteVets.org, served as a Captain in Operation Iraqi Freedom
FOX and Friends hosts twice implied on their show that this is some kind of Muslim problem. There are thousands of American Muslims serving in the military right now, and many have given their lives.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, 11.06.2009
Chairman, Cordoba Initiative
I am concerned that this incident will cause some Americans to react against Muslims. Our fellow Americans should understand that every major American Muslim organization has condemned it.
Jamal Dajani, 11.08.2009
Senior Director and Producer of Mosaic News, Link TV
Seven messages and counting on my voice mail from different Bay Area reporters, all wanting to know the Muslim community's reaction about the recent heinous killings of Nidal Malik Hasan.
Will Marshall, 11.06.2009
President and Founder, Progressive Policy Institute
How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.
Cynthia Boaz, 11.05.2009
Asst. Prof. of Political Science, Consultant on Nonviolent Action and Strategy
Reposted from Truthout.
"The Iranian women's movement is not simply demanding equal rights alone. It is demanding a larger universal reality, which ...
Jeffrey Shaffer, 11.04.2009
For the past ten years, Jeffrey Shaffer contributed essays and opinion columns to The Christian ...
While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.
John Feffer, 11.05.2009
Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus
This year in Istanbul, the flags on Republic Day seemed extra large. It wasn't a special anniversary year. Turkey was celebrating its 86th year as a modern secular state.