Is Islam a religion or is it a 3D version including a political party and possibly for even more fanatic Imams, a militia? Muslims have to decide.
Reuters | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist group al Shabaab has publicly whipped women for wearing bras they say violate Islam by constituting ...
Saad Khan | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
The recent killing of a major Indonesian militant might decelerate the rise of extremism, but there are other organizations that are ready to pick up the pieces and continue their 'mission.'
Saad Khan | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
India is not a threat to Pakistan, Islamic militancy is. If Pakistan's leaders are still not able to overcome their 'infatuation' with India, then it could prove disastrous for regional stability.
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Good-minded people who see a need to teach tolerance and engage in civil discussion are cowed into submission by the shouters.
Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
Even in Islamic countries not strictly run by Sharia law, pressures mount on local Christians to leave the homes they've known for centuries.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Muslims now have the leader of the most powerful nation on earth agreeing with them and seeking their help.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
In Cairo, President Obama employed a variety of historical, liturgical, and political references to express America's hope for a new beginning with the Islamic world. Here are ten critical lines from the speech.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
Obama recognizes that although most Muslims reject violence, many Muslims do not favor our kind of political system or the full plethora of human rights as we list them.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
No single issue that has fueled the flames of anti-Americanism in Pakistan more than the bombings of their country by our Predator drones.
Jacob Dickerman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy
Al Hussein sighed and looked at his abdomen, where there were no longer any bruises from being slapped. "I never would have become an Islamic Extremist if it weren't for the human rights abuses."
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
It is problematic that characters in these stories -- the Pope, a member of India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, a Knesset leader, a Canadian federal minister -- are influential, mainstream figures.
Kamran Pasha | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
Perhaps the way out of this madness for the Muslim community is to look back at the life of Prophet Muhammad and remember his true legacy as a visionary champion of women's rights.
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
Like the conflicts in Afghanistan and Palestine, the Kashmir conflict is one that is talked about in hundreds of thousands of mosques -- not jut in the region, but throughout the world.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
Obama, in his very first days in office, has embraced this distinction between moderate and violent Muslims, which is very compatible with the thesis the US and its allies should focus on.
Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
US policy not only has displayed a callous disregard for the basic human rights of Somalis, but it has failed on its own terms, breeding the very extremism it sought to eliminate.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
Immediately after the Mumbai attacks attacks, several Bollywood stars, including actor Aamir Khan, began to blog about the problem of associating Islam with terrorism.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 01.03.2009 | World
I spoke to Chopra Tuesday and gave him the opportunity to speak candidly about censorship in the media, the new patriotism, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and latent anti-Muslim racism in the United States.
Johann Hari | Posted 12.24.2008 | Green
This spring, I took a month-long road trip across a country that we -- you, me and everyone we know -- are killing: Bangladesh.
Reuters | Posted 12.22.2008 | Home
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents stormed a port on Friday hunting the pirates behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that...
AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban fighters stormed the Ministry of Culture in the heart of Kabul Thursday, killing five people in an attack the presi...
AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. military abruptly dropped charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees, including one who allegedly plotted to...
NY Times | CARLOTTA GALL and TAIMOOR SHAH | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents pulled some 50 passengers off a bus in southern Afghanistan and beheaded as many as 30 of them after accusing...
AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida, which gets its money from the drug trade in Afghanistan and sympathizers in the oil-rich Gulf states, is likely to esca...
AP | HABIB KHAN | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
KHAR, Pakistan — Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military o...
Wael Nawara | Posted 12.02.2009 | World