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Whatever was in the mind of shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who reportedly gunned down 13 people at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas, is no reason to question the loyalty of Muslim Americans in general. Read more
Whatever was in the mind of shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who reportedly gunned down 13 people at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas, is no reason to question the loyalty of Muslim Americans in general. Read more
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. Read more
Consumers of Islamic religious knowledge and opinions are so illiterate in these matters that they lack the ability to distinguish between genuine scholarship and demagoguery - with tragic and even comic results. Read more
Our own Wajahat Ali moderated a panel discussion on "Politics and New Media in the Muslim World" on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley and sponsored by UC Berkeley's Center for Southeast Asia Studies. Read more
"Islam doesn't tell anyone to kill on the basis of religion," Shaukat bhai said. "Extremism is bad. We should follow the moderate way." I wondered what it would take for this sound bite, from a bespectacled, bearded former Taliban, to make it on the nightly news. Read more
Whatever conclusions people make about the killing of Imam Luqman Abdullah, they should do so with all the facts in hand. If we find condemnable acts, we should all condemn them. And where we find innocence, we should defend it. Read more
As a recent incident on Britain's Islam Channel shows, the often subversive use of the media by the global pan-Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir speaks to the difficulties the group has with its image and worldview. Read more
Louise Cainkar's new book Homeland Insecurity argues that 9/11 created an environment in which hostility toward Muslims could thrive and their political and social exclusion could be legitimated by both the government and nativist Americans. Read more
Persistent religious discrimination against Muslims and recurring communal violence have marred India’s ideals and values. As the Sachar Report illustrates, the issue of Muslim empowerment is not so much about the Muslim community as it is about India’s future Read more
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Biopics: The pitfalls of filming Muhammad
Unfortunately, the Matrix producer Barrie Osborne's planned biopic on the life of the Prophet Muhammad won't illuminate Islam in the same way 'The Message' did 33 years ago. Instead, there are plenty of other stories yet to be told on film. Read more