Recently I met a police officer during my Houston Police Academy cultural awareness training who proposed that the negative publicity about Islam has died down in the last few years. This week I learned that, to the contrary, Islamophobia is not only alive and well, but even promoted by certain branches of the U.S. [...]
About 1,500 people, a gregarious mix of Christians and Muslims, gathered last night at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo in Perrysburg Township to encircle the mosque, pray for the safety of those who worship within, and sing patriotic songs.
American flags were everywhere – medium-sized ones along the driveways, a large one hanging from [...]
Physically awkward, socially uncomfortable, mechanically rigid, and not balding, but conclusively balded, having lost it and pointing it out with a toupee. For high school students, that’s blood in the water. We’d regularly tease him; our pre-calculus class in particular was famed for its brazenness (and be sure we reveled in that notoriety). But because [...]
American Muslims deserve a break. There are as many as 6 million to 8 million Muslims living in the United States and contributing to the country as doctors, engineers, artists, actors and professionals, but for a decade many have found themselves and their religion wrongly equated with the acts of terrorists like Osama bin Laden. [...]
There were only 14 states at the time, and Virginia’s approval met the three-fourths requirement for states to approve constitutional changes.
What the early American settlers did more than 200 years ago has direct applicability today to the WikiLeaks revelations, the so-called Ground Zero mosque controversy and the lives of millions. The First Amendment often [...]
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