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President Obama, after saying that building a mosque at Ground Zero fit our “commitment to religious freedom,” backtracked, saying he wasn’t commenting on the ‘wisdom’ of building it so close to ‘hallowed ground.’  A Fox News poll showed that while 61 percent of Americans believe...

This article was published in the Wilmington News Journal under the title “Delawareans, be proud of your open minds about interfaith issues” on May 4th, 2010 and also in AltMuslimah.com |05/04.2010| The last four weeks have been a feast for my mind and my soul. I have...

This article was published in  The Washington Post |08.02.2010| The Delaware News Journal and many other places. There is an emerging preemptive anti-Shariah movement in America as manifest by an Oklahoma legislator who is seeking to introduce a bill that will ban Shariah law in...

Cricket, though not very popular in America is the world’s second most popular sport after soccer. In the past two years the developments in the cricketing world have pointed to some fascinating shifts in global realities. For nearly a century and a half, England held sway over...

This article was published in  The Washington Post |09.07.2010| The Delaware News Journal and many other places. “Where books are burned in the end people will burn.” – Heinrich Heine On May 10th, 1933 the Nazis burned 25,000 books — including those...

Yes, we Muslims are hypocritical. We demand equality under the law wherever we live as minorities and practice systematic inequality wherever we are in power. In most Muslim societies men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims, are treated unequally by law. Sometimes culture and...

Yes, we Muslims are hypocritical. We demand equality under the law wherever we live as minorities and practice systematic inequality wherever we are in power. In most Muslim societies men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims, are treated unequally by law. Sometimes culture and...

From May 29 to June 4th, The World Council of Churches, an organization representing 349 Churches and 550 million Christians, Worldwide is dedicating a week to advocacy, prayer and education for peace in Palestine and Israel (www.oikoumene.org). Among various initiatives, these...

Faisal Shahzad, Major Nidal Hassan and Anwar Awlaki: Is it now official that American Muslims too have become radicalized and are well on their way to becoming Al Qaeda in America? The recent incidents involving American Muslims may suggest so, and it has triggered panicky...

What is the obligation of a Western, democratic government to protect individual freedoms in light of a realistic terrorist threat? Are the producers of South Park right to forfeit their freedom of expression in the interests of protecting their employees? Are the governments of...