Courtesy: The Faster Times
To The Iraqi Girl In My Seminar,
I like your hijab. It’s such a simple phrase, only four words. I like your hijab because it—though I have not felt it—seems to be made …

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Courtesy: Reuters
October 3, 2010
The president, who holds a largely ceremonial position but is considered a moral authority for the nation, used the televised ceremony to wade into a debate over immigrant integration that has captivated …

Courtesy: The Times of India
October 3, 2010
Three days after a Ram idol was placed under the Babri Masjid’s central dome, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru shot off a letter to UP chief minister G B Pant …

Courtesy: Huffington Post
September 22, 2010
A few years back, long before 9/11, one of our Religious Studies majors told me that she had taken my course to learn why she should hate Islam. As a normal …

Nominee includes:
Mohammad Nawaz Wahla: The 59-year-old Glastonbury Democrat is president of his own law firm, Wahla & Associates, founded in 1999. Wahla specializes in immigration law but also handles real estate matters, criminal defense, personal …

Courtesy: Globe and Mail
October 1, 2010
An Ottawa imam who calls himself a bridge builder between Muslims and other Canadians has been barred by the Harper government from speaking at a Defence Department event next week …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Monday, September 27, 2010
Toronto — Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley issued a 60-page ruling today that slams the federal government for attempting to ban former British MP George Galloway from entering …

September 29, 2010
Courtesy of Rabble
Former British MP George Galloway will now arrive in Toronto on Saturday, Oct. 2, to resume his pan-Canada speaking tour after being prevented from entering the country in March 2009. A …

Courtesy: Foreign Policy
September 20, 2010
A while after the election of Muhammad Badi‘ as “general guide” of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the international Brotherhood organization — a contentious and unusually public process — I shared …

Courtesy:  Guernica
Four or five years ago, the term Sharia, which for Muslims denotes Islamic law, meant scant little to Americans. As I write this in the fall of 2010, America’s perceptions of Islam and Muslims …

An Ex-FDNY Muslim’s View of Ground Zero

By RICHARD STEIER

Kevin James is clearly frustrated, his face tight with emotion, as he speaks about the controversy over the building of the Islamic cultural center a couple …

The Asian American Studies Program and South Asia Center of the
University of Pennsylvania invite you to the following panel
discussion
Nine Years Later: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America
This forum will address the state of …

Courtesy:  AlJazeera
September 20, 2010
In possibly the most dramatic mea culpa in Presidential history, Bill Clinton, newly appointed as UN Special Envoy for Haiti, admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the US policy of compelling …