The school committee in Cambridge, Mass., stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy when it voted in October to include a Muslim holiday on its academic calendar. Though not particularly controversial among local residents, this change earned the ire of Bill O’Reilly, who asked his Fox News viewers, “Are we going to give Hindus a [...]
LOWER MANHATTAN — Downtown residents aren’t ready to give up the Park51 mosque and community center, which Saudi billionaire King Abdullah reportedly wants to move up to Greenwich Village.
Several downtown residents said Monday that they are looking forward to Park51 bringing a pool, gym, theater and other amenities to the planned location on Park [...]
LOS ANGELES (RNS) Muslim leaders are admitting disaffected Muslim youth such as the alleged Oregon bomber arrested last month are ripe for online recruitment by extremists.
“Why do we in Muslim communities not have centers for at-risk youth?” said civil rights attorney Reem Salahi at the annual national convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council [...]
Would you like a spot of Islamophobia in your tea? It seems that a few of the Tea Party’s representatives in the midterm elections concluded that voters would like their favorite drink brewed with very hot anti-Muslim spices.
“He is the only Muslim member of congress,” Tea Party Nation leader Judson Phillips, a Tennessee attorney, [...]
I used to get invited to speak with powerful people all over the world – government officials in Europe, university administrators in India, royals in the Middle East, about how America is a country where so many people of different religions live together in relative peace and trust.
After the madness of this past summer [...]
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