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Islam Encourages Scientific Progress

Harun Yahya | Posted 04.09.2013 | Religion
Harun Yahya

Science is an important reality that enables us to know the universe we inhabit, the Earth and our own bodies and to be able to appreciate all the beauties around us. For a sincere Muslim, science is a blessing that God has bestowed on mankind.

Will Arabs and Muslims Visit Jerusalem?

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.02.2012 | World
Daoud Kuttab

The plight of the people and the importance of the city should not be felt only by the Palestinians. Muslims, Christians and people of all faiths should heed the call and support the embattled city and its Palestinian population.

Reading the Tea Leaves of Domestic Terrorism

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Kimberly Krautter

I have become keenly aware that deliberately overheated rhetoric and pernicious public speech by our national leaders tacitly grants permission for the weak minded and mentally ill to commit atrocities.

Road to peace in Afghanistan doesn't run through Islamabad or Langley

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Michael Hughes

Most Afghans cringe when hearing the words "regional settlement" because to them it's nothing more than a euphemism for the meddling of foreign powers...

Sharia And Day To Day Existence

Sherman A. Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Sherman A. Jackson

The fact that laws and regulations happen to be of non-Muslim origin does not automatically render them unacceptable to Islam. As such, Muslims with good-faith commitments to sharia could support and sanction the majority of them.

Who Wins When the U.S. Restricts Religious Freedom?

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Jim Wallis

If terrorists are able to not only attack us physically but get us to judge our neighbors by labels rather than the content of their character, turn our back on the Constitution and then restrict the religious freedom of other Americans, we all lose.

Being a Muslim Today

Humaira Awais Shahid | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Humaira Awais Shahid

Today, every Muslim is asking himself some questions -- questions that have been pending with the Muslims for decades and centuries. What does being a...

Times Square Car Bomb: an American Muslim View

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sumbul Ali-Karamali

I hope we can remember the Muslim Senegalese man who raised the alarm about the smoking car, as well as the criminal who put it there. Muslims, like people of all religions, do good things and bad things.

Seven Praying Men Arrested In Shopping Center Parking Lot

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Council on Islamic-American Relations filed a complaint that seven men were arrested while praying in a parking lot outside a shopping mall in Las Vegas.

Can Nuclear Terrorists Be Deterred?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Russ Wellen

Terrorists, according to conventional thinking, are immune to deterrence. If they ever obtained nuclear weapons, they'd suffer few qualms about using them.

Islam4UK, Islamist Group, Banned In United Kingdom

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

LONDON — The British government banned an Islamist group notorious for glorifying al-Qaida and tied to terror plots at home and abroad, but its ...

WISE Muslim Women Standing Up

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Along with over 200 other Muslim women from 55 countries, I attended panels and seminars, all focused on educating and empowering Muslim women and promoting their rights from an Islamic perspective.

Richard T. Antoun, Binghamton Professor, Killed; Abdulsalam al-Zahrani Charged With Murder

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

VESTAL, N.Y. — A graduate student has been accused of fatally stabbing a 77-year-old Binghamton University anthropology professor. Authorities ...

Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Chris Weigant

This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.

Southern California Muslims Battle Islamophobia in a Post 9/11 World

Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Brooke-Sidney Gavins

Terrorism. Terrorists. Since the planes flew into the World Trade towers on September 11, 2001, these words have become almost synonymous with Islam and being a Muslim.

Wrong...Wrong...Wrong: Obama Lets Muslim Advisor Resign

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Steve Clemons

Obama should convince the American public that he's not setting up a zero sum game between Muslims on one side and Christians and Jews on the other.

The Indian Heroine Tulsi Falls in the Battle For Freedom of Speech in Karzai's Afghanistan

Shoaib Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Shoaib Harris

It is particularly cruel to ban a family-oriented drama in a country whose populations were deprived of all legitimate entertainment opportunities for over half a decade under the Taliban.