Several million Muslims live in the US, including a large number in New York City. The vast majority of Muslims refuse to buy into a media scripted xenophobic image of Muslims as terrorists. Certainly, there are criminals of Muslim descent, just as there are criminals of Christian descent, or any...

On the same day as anti-Islamic rhetoric intensified in the wake of a train blast by terrorists in Russia, the FBI was unraveling a scheme by another terrorist group, the Hutaree, as its members plotted to kill several US police officers in Michigan. The Hutaree's name, literally translating to "Christian...

A southern state headquartering the infamous Ku Klux Klan seemed an implausible home, even as my husband's health care career landed us there. Our "colored" family lived away from this organization, in a nearby city that was relatively "hospitable" to diversity. A black native there warned us that the Caucasians...