A month from now will mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I’ve been asked countless times what I plan on doing this year in commemoration. I plan on doing what I do every year — standing at Ground Zero out of respect for those that we lost that day, with those who lost [...]
Peter King, the controversial Republican congressman from New York who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, announced Tuesday that he will hold a third hearing on radicalization among Muslim-Americans next week.
While King’s first hearing in March focused on Islamic radicalization in general and his second
You’ve seen the government-required signs in restaurant restrooms telling employees to wash their hands. Muslims wash up as a part of living their faith, which is called “sharia” in Arabic. The Prophet Muhammad also encouraged Muslims to wash their hands before and after eating. Muslim parents raise their children on many such manners. The first [...]
This year, two notable controversies have been brewing in Tennessee: a proposed bill that would forbid educators from using the word “gay” in the classroom, and a court battle to determine if Islam is a religion. (The verdict? Islam is in fact a religion — for now, anyway.)
These [...]
The parallel between Japanese internment during World War II and today’s rising Islamophobia is already old news — but it shouldn’t be, because history insists on repeating itself, and we insist on ignoring it.
During this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, the Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal revealed the following in the
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