Arnold Friedman | ADL’s mosque stand flawed
I’m pleased that Fareed Zakariah recently returned a First Amendment award the ADL gave him in 2005 to protest your decision. I’d be more pleased if the ADL were to reconsider its position and admit that it was wrong in this case.
For a while America seemed less vulnerable than Europe to home-grown jihadism. The Pew Research Centre reported three years ago that most Muslim Americans were “largely assimilated, happy with their lives…
Are Mainstream Islamist Groups Radicalizing?
How have these emerging concerns affected their strategy and tactics? And, as mainstream Islamists are boxed in by government restrictions, will other more radical groups try to fill the vacuum?
Gina Gershon: Trusting in the Humanity of All the World’s People
The Islam I saw in Turkey was not the Islam we often see in politics and entertainment. Endorsing the Cordoba House provides a unique opportunity to trust in the humanity of all the world’s people.
This excerpt from the new book, “Midnight on the Mavi Marmara,” explains how the world is now forced to reconsider what Zionism has actually built in the Middle East.
Commentary: Is Islam’s Problem A Lack Of Modernity?
Contrary to the liberal narrative– Islamist groups do not draw their followers from the ranks of the poor and dispossessed, but from the educated middle and upper classes. Terrorists often have college degrees, sometimes from Western educational institutions.
Jon Stewart On Ground Zero: Municipal Land-Use Hearing Update
Newt Gingrich doesn’t want to be lectured about religious liberty when there’s not a single church or synagogue in Saudi Arabia. A Must watch Clip
Conservative Group Calls for Blanket Ban on New Mosques
AFA’s Bryan Fischer was demanding the end to the construction of all mosques on the grounds that “each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.”!!!
U.S. Muslims underestimate 9/11 effect, Muslim thinker warns
A different point of view, Akbar Ahmed, The Prominent Muslim thinker is opposing the construction of the Ground Zero Islamic Center.
Shari’a and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
Shari‘a is a product of an approach to evidence as opposed to an immutable set of laws. Possessing a significant degree of flexibility, it evolves to fit the changing needs and expectations of a given society.
