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The political backlash and opportunism surrounding President Obama’s defense of Muslims’ First Amendment rights continues to jeopardize religious freedom for all Americans. Read more
The political backlash and opportunism surrounding President Obama’s defense of Muslims’ First Amendment rights continues to jeopardize religious freedom for all Americans. Read more
What drives a Western born-and-bred youngster, with all the privileges of an education, a modern lifestyle and freedom of speech, to violently attack his fellow countrymen? Read more
The Park51 project in lower Manhattan cannot fail. It must not fail. Indeed, it has become a fight that needs fighting by all Americans. But it must begin with strong Muslim leadership. Read more
Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf's project to build bridges with America has inadvertently become a lightning rod for hatred. If he succeeds in building his center, it will be a triumph for America and its values. But American Muslims will have to pay a big price for it. Read more
This Ramadan, Bassam Tariq and Aman Ali expand on last year's exploration of 30 mosques in New York City with an ambitious drive across 30 states to visit 30 unique mosques, uncovering a diversity and dynamism that surprises us all. Read more
The campaign for school holidays for Muslim students in New York City may actually be detrimental to religious freedom by creating an all or nothing conflict - either recognize all holidays or none - that is most likely to result in the recognition of none. Read more
Does the American standard consist of freedom of religion, that fundamental right to which we thought ourselves entitled in this nation? Or has the new American standard become the method by which to deny American Muslims their rights? Read more
By misusing concepts of Islamic law to instate a reign of terror, the Taliban are guilty of increasingly bloodthirsty killing campaigns that kill hundreds of Afghan civilians. It's time to hold them accountable. Read more
In creative storytelling and theatre from the Muslim community lie the answers to many questions and the solutions to many problems, not least that of how we positively relate to and communicate with the world. Read more
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Religious tolerance: The Ground Zero synagogue
As opposition builds to the "Ground Zero mosque" by Americans, a "Ground Zero synagogue" was built in the heart of Beirut with little opposition by the Lebanese, who suffered a proportionally worse fate than New York did on 9/11. Read more