These are good, serious and thoughtful people, usually deeply committed to Judaism, who struggle with big religious questions in a way that makes no sense. They may think that they can wring the holiness out of their Jewish identity and practice, but they cannot.

The killing spree by Mohammed Merah in Toulouse, France is an eerie reminder of the War on Terror. It has come when we thought that religious terrorism was a thing of the past.

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.

Religious moderates must build new bridges of coexistence or religious extremists will burn the last bridges of peace.

In today's world, the voices of moderation are becoming fewer and fewer, while extremist groups are growing in size and are flexing more and more political muscle.

Smith uses shock-and-awe violence in "Red State" to bring viewers into the fullness of his commentary on the nature of belief, religious fanaticism and insipid hatred masked as piety.

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The shock of the 9/11 attacks was so great, and the personal losses so deep, that many people understa...

Since it became clear that the culprit of the horror in Norway was not a Muslim jihadist, but a self-proclaimed "Christian Knight," the popular perceptions of terrorism are being questioned.

When the discussion of sharia law is based on the premise that Islam is inherently criminal, or that all Muslims have a proclivity towards violence, then that discussion shifts from legitimate intellectual debate to hateful religious scapegoating.

As attractive a moral strategy as it may be to always put God first, does loyalty to God really mean casting aside every other commitment we have?

Maybe this Sept. 11 can be what Eboo Patel has been calling "our Tahrir moment," enabling us to take the baggage from 9/11 and transcend it into wisdom for the American future.

It's difficult to conceive of a worse Muslim curse or Islamic affliction than bin Laden. Seeking to drive a wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims in America, he ignited a firestorm.

Regardless of what religion we follow, we've all got our Osama bin Ladens, our Donald Rumsfelds and our Dov Liors. In the wrong hands, no religion is a religion of peace.