Who Is Watching Who and Why?
There is a huge presence of apathy and complacency in the land, with people ignoring abuses of civil liberties as long as it is happening to the "other."
There is a huge presence of apathy and complacency in the land, with people ignoring abuses of civil liberties as long as it is happening to the "other."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.29.2012
In the decade since 9/11, American Muslims and mosques have come under a close lens, from congressional hearings on radicalization to campaigns agains...
Michael J. Wilson | Posted 04.29.2012
Throughout our history, unpopular groups have been targeted for the public's wrath in difficult times. Demagogues like King have been only too anxious to steer and cheer on this wrath.
Haaretz | Posted 12.13.2011
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday voiced support for a law that would ban mosques from using loudspeaker systems to call people to prayer....
Atlas Obscura | Posted 01.30.2012
These magnificent structures praise God with their architectural elation: soaring towers, onion domes and brilliant coloring.
Orland Park Patch | Posted 11.08.2011
The year was 1978. Bob Marley convinced warring Jamaican factions to shake hands. China lifted a ban on the works of Shakespeare. Pete Rose logged his...
AP | MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 11.06.2011
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department compiled lists of mosques and Muslim businesses it saw as potential security risks for reasons that in...
Wajahat Ali | Posted 10.17.2011
A mosque is worth only as much as the people inside it. It's the communities that give the mosque meaning and weight. How we serve our Creator and our fellow neighbors is ultimately reflected in the spirit of each and every mosque.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 09.02.2011
ROSEMONT, Ill. -- If Muslims want to improve their image America, they have to get involved in their communities and proactively talk Islam before con...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
The reasons for New York Republican Rep. Peter King's insistence on holding a series of controversial hearings about the alleged growth of radical Isl...
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011
As American politicians debate whether violent rhetoric contributed to the attempted assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a similar debate is underway in Saudi Arabia.
G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011
The relationships of cultures are not so very different from the relationships of individuals.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the biggest threats to the American gift is the notion that the exercise and adherents of some faiths are worthy of the equal protection of our laws, while other "illegitimate" faiths are not.
G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011
With mosques functioning as the local centers of Islamic faith and the object of renewed Western suspicion, it is undeniable that mosques also help keep alive the memory of the divide of civilizations that once rent the world irreparably in two.
G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011
Even when Americans began to travel to Muslim lands, from the start they displayed a more diverse response to Islam and its mosques, which over the course of a century graduated from the crude to the reverent.
G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011
Compared to the European writers discovering the great mosques of Islam for the first time, the mention of mosques is more muted and void of romance to the Muslim secularists inured to them from birth.
G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011
By the end of the 19th century, mosques became lyrical, escapist, and hallucinogenic motifs for writers who had never even set sight on them.
G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011
For the last three centuries, it's been an aesthetic and cultural conversion that keeps the secular minds of the West returning to the sacred architecture of Islam.
Posted 05.25.2011
We love places of worship - their grandeur, their peacefulness, their architectural beauty. We especially admire mosques. Here's our pick of 24 beaut...
Deborah Schoeberlein | Posted 11.17.2011
To most of us modern folks, Ground Zero refers to a location in Manhattan. Some of us were physically there on 9/11; the rest of us were emotionally and spiritually close.
Janine Balekdjian | Posted 05.25.2011
Any group out there conspiring to subvert American democracy from within should hire the right wing as their PR machine; Newt Gingrich and friends have done a great job of destroying American values.
Rev. Chuck Freeman | Posted 05.25.2011
My friend Islam invited me, a rabbi, and a comparative religion professor to his Muslim community center for a strategy session around the national mosque controversies.
Timothy A. Ridout | Posted 05.25.2011
It seems hard to believe given their invaluable contributions to American society, but Catholics were once depicted by some as an insidious cancer that would irredeemably corrupt the nation.
Shai Baitel | Posted 05.25.2011
Having a right and doing the right thing, for one's goals and one's community, might be two different things. What worked for a mosque in Nazareth still has the chance to work with Park 51.
Zaki Hasan | Posted 05.25.2011
When naked political ambition unfettered by notions of common decency is coupled with rampant ignorance, the results can be pretty darn scary.
Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 04.12.2012