'We Are Not At War With Islam'
This incessant message of denial is hard to swallow by many sectors of our society. The sad reality is that our nation has institutionalized vigilance based on stereotypical ethnic and religious profiling.
This incessant message of denial is hard to swallow by many sectors of our society. The sad reality is that our nation has institutionalized vigilance based on stereotypical ethnic and religious profiling.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.11.2012
This conflict is really about the role that faith will play in America. It is about whether or not we will accept Muslim Americans as true Americans or as second-class citizens. It is a test of our character, and we dare not fail it.
Engy Abdelkader | Posted 05.09.2012
Through the personal images of and reflections by and about real American Muslim woman scattered throughout the U.S., we glimpse a truer understanding of her and are reminded once again of our common humanity.
Ben Herzig | Posted 05.09.2012
Alienating fellow American citizens based simply on their beliefs, as some candidates have done, is not only un-American -- it's bad politics.
Posted 05.08.2012
Excerpt from Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero To A New Vision Of Islam In America (Free Press, May 2012) I am a...
Michael Mungai | Posted 05.01.2012
It is utterly insensitive that while the U.S. is dealing with the extremities of such a barbaric practice that's suspected to have ended young Trayvon Martin's life, a respected public intellectual like yourself would advocate its practice on others.
Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski | Posted 04.25.2012
What we know for sure is that Trayvon Martin is dead. We may also learn again that the false assumptions that undergird all sorts of profiling endanger our citizens and visitors, and divide us against each other.
Engy Abdelkader | Posted 04.24.2012
For years, the NYPD has engaged in the widespread warrantless surveillance of law abiding American Muslims without any credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Based upon the reports, their only crime appears to be their religious belief in Islam.
Mustafa Akyol | Posted 04.14.2012
America, which has been a safe heaven for persecuted believers since the Mayflower, keeps up with its heritage by welcoming Muslim believers as well. It should not give into the fear-mongering of a handful of anti-Islamic propagandists.
Rabia Chaudry | Posted 04.10.2012
The politicians who continue to be used to spread or confirm the network's ugly narrative must realize something very important: while winning small battles, they are losing the war.
Kecia Ali | Posted 04.06.2012
It's spring again. The forsythia are in bloom and the days grow longer. But even as the seasons sometimes drag on, the years fly by. Somehow the last decade has evaporated. What has been accomplished?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 03.30.2012
At first, the devout Muslims who gathered in a Washington, D.C., conference center seemed like they could have come from any mosque. There were women ...
Posted 03.23.2012
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Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.22.2012
Whether you want to admit it or not, you can't escape it. We all belong, equally, to the same tribe, a new tribe, the tribe of "Ahl Al America" -- The people of Amreeka.
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster | Posted 05.07.2012
The Purim story has a happy ending, with enemies vanquished and Mordechai replacing his adversary Haman in a position of leadership. People of faith have a responsibility to ensure that today's story has a positive outcome.
Munira Syeda | Posted 05.05.2012
The AP team has done an amazing job in its months-long investigation of the NYPD. The revelations come at a critical time when we cannot afford to waste resources or implement ineffective measures in counter-terrorism.
Benish Shah | Posted 04.29.2012
These networks of professionals are the moderate voices that everyone seems to be looking for, but they aren't defending or criticizing. They are simply doing what other Americans do everyday: leading by example and raising the bar.
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz | Posted 04.28.2012
Let us all be vigilant against fear mongers who invoke phantom terrorists everywhere we look and nuclear bombs around every corner. We will not rest until we defeat and denounce their dubious damaging agendas.
Imam Abdullah Antepli | Posted 04.25.2012
Bismillah enables us to built muscles of gratitude and thankfulness toward God and to other fellow human beings. It shapes us to be more mindful people.
Erica Shaps | Posted 04.25.2012
When I was on a Brandeis University Hillel first year retreat, it never crossed my mind that the police might be watching me. However, after last week, this worry is entirely legitimate, especially for my Muslim peers across the Northeast.
Daniel Tutt | Posted 04.25.2012
The damage that these scandals have caused in severing the lines of trust between law enforcement and the Muslim community may be irreparable in the short term, but it is not too late for the NYPD to begin assessing the policies that led us here.
Jack Gordon | Posted 05.07.2012
ADAMS is one of the largest Muslim communities/mosques in the D.C. Metro Area and in the United States. It engages in regular interfaith, government relations, social services and community service.
Harris Zafar | Posted 04.08.2012
The hysteria around sharia continues to grow, especially with the GOP presidential primaries in full swing. The message is that we better do something fast before sharia usurps the American Constitution.
Mary J. Loftus | Posted 04.07.2012
Prickly questions abound when determining how religious minorities with distinctive family norms, cultural practices and their own religious law, courts and schools, can be accommodated in democratic societies.
Jon Soltz | Posted 03.31.2012
Imagine that a man who said there should be no freedom of religion for Muslims, or Mosques in America, and that America is in a religious war that pits America, a "Christian Nation," against Islam was invited to address our men and women in uniform? Well, it's happening.
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz | Posted 05.21.2012