In a special for Salon.com, our Associate Editor Wajahat Ali offers his take on the controversy over South Park. If you think South Park’s Muslim brouhaha was messy, you should see what’s going on in the neighboring town of East Park.

With the removal of Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi from the post on the NGO that funds IslamOnline by the Qatar Government, the future of IslamOnline looks bleak. With hundreds of writers and editors having been forced to resign, it is a severe blow to the integrity of journalism in the Muslim world.

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the UC Berkeley Centers of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East along with Arab Cultural and Community Center, Naseeb.com, Center for Islamic Studies at GTU, and altmuslim.com will be sponsoring a forum on how Muslim youth use new media. Join us!

One Muslim-run charity has found a unique way to bring attention to causes that affect children from all backgrounds. The IF Charity’s Big Read will attempt to break the world record for adults reading to children this Thursday in London.

Voting for the Brass Crescent Awards has begun and for our British participants, we’re offering five pairs of tickets to see a special IMAX screening of “Journey to Mecca,” a documentary that tells the story of Ibn Battuta and the hajj

American Muslims, particularly those serving in the US Armed Forces, should consider the killing of soldiers at Fort Hood an act of betrayal and treachery, regardless of the political sphere surrounding America’s wars overseas.

It’s award time again and we have two to remind you of – the sixth annual Brass Crescent Awards (nominations close October 21st) and the European Muslim Women of Influence 2010 (nominations close November 15). Help out by entering nominations today!

Many have said that Muslims are curiously quiet when it comes to speaking out about the injustices suffered by the Uighur Muslims of Western China. A group of American Muslims, including us, have taken action to make sure that impression does not continue.

When I was invited to appear on “Nightline with Ted Koppel” back in 1990 to debate Robert McNamara (who died yesterday at 93), I thought I’d have an easy time of it. Little did I know that McNamara was entering a phase of his life where he would begin to be more introspective about war and its consequences.

Several of us at altmuslim have had the opportunity to work with Farah Pandith, who has just been appointed by Secretary Clinton to be a special representative to Muslim communities worldwide.