Yes, we know it's been ages since we did a podcast. But how hard would you try when Riazat Butt's Islamophonic podcast at the Guardian already does it so well. Read more
Yes, we know it's been ages since we did a podcast. But how hard would you try when Riazat Butt's Islamophonic podcast at the Guardian already does it so well. Read more
Looking beyond the resistance to religious accommodation in public schools, one might find a means to better integration, not worse Read more
Wajahat Ali interviews Peter Warren Singer of the Brookings Institute on the turmoil caused by Blackwater and other private military contractors functioning in Iraq Read more
The passing away of MSA founder Ilyas Ba-Yunus reminds us that the generation gap between immigrant Muslims and their Americanized offspring is sometimes greater than it should be. Read more
London's proposed Abbeymills mosque has been a lightning rod for allegations of extremism by its proponents, the isolationist and conservative Tablighi Jamaat movement. They may have learned from the experience. Read more
In Bangladesh, a cartoon controversy says more about the country's political polarisation than it does about religious offense Read more
The grandstanding of Columbia University President Lee Bollinger against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a blow for the free speech the university promotes Read more
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial comments about the Holocaust speak volumes about the state of the Middle East Read more
Is France's Nicholas Sarkozy aiming to replace Britain's Tony Blair as America's foreign policy partner in Europe and will it accelerate a new war with Iran? Read more
Confronting extremism: What happened to “good Islam”?
I reject this "Islam" of carnage, irrationality, social disorder and murder. I accept an Islam of problem solving, love and rational thought. That is an Islam that people can live with. Read more