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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...

Did the Pentagon do the right thing by disinviting evangelist Franklin Graham from a National Day of Prayer event next week? Should government officials decide who can or cannot speak at such an event? Should the government proclaim a National Day of Prayer? Was a federal judge...

In the past few months, we have witnessed a serious of bizarre but terrifying episodes of violence, hate crimes and terrorism in the U.S. The frequency of such events in conjunction with the heightened vitriol in the political discourse about health care and President Obama’s...