In a move that enraged European Islamophobes, on December 26 Google deactivated the gmail account used by right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders for distributing anti-Islam stickers...
Wilders has gained notoriety in the Muslim world and is known (...)
In his first official document as the new Catholic pope, Evangelii Gaudium, Francis wrote of the need for Catholics to separate "violent fundamentalism" from "authentic Islam"...
Since his ascension to the papacy, Pope Francis has been charting what (...)
When Time magazine named Pope Francis its person of the year, most of the resulting debate centred on whether Egypt's Defence Minister Abdel Fatah el-Sisi or Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan should have won instead.
But in Egypt, the (...)
For the generations of students who have attended Coachella Valley High School in Thermal, California, their team name and mascot have been a source of pride and school spirit.
But as more and more Americans take another look at sports team names (...)
U.S. Army Sgt. Kimberly Walker, 28, truly loved SpongeBob Squarepants, a popular cartoon figure on the US cable network Nickelodeon. Every year, she had a SpongeBob birthday party, her family told local media outlets. The curtains in her home and in (...)
The announcement shocked many diplomats at the United Nations and left experts on the region scrambling to decipher the decision.
In a statement released by the Saudi Foreign Ministry, the kingdom said it was turning down the seat because it felt (...)
The successes of the extremist Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, and the dangers the group pose to the West, have reactivated the United States' interest in the Middle East.
For many months, basically since the re-election of Barack Obama as (...)
When the last convoy of United States troops pulled out of Iraq in December, 2011, President Barack Obama said the U.S. would not be going back.
The U.S. did continue to support then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but despite gains by the "Islamic (...)
In a new survey released on July 1st, the Pew Research Global Attitude Project found that fears about extremism are on the rise in countries with substantial Muslim populations, and that groups like Hizbullah, Hamas and al-Qaeda are viewed with (...)
The United States has said that the declaration by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) of a caliphate covering the territories under its control in Iraq and Syria is just nonsense.
It has "no meaning," according to the State (...)
The centuries old proverb might be used to describe the meeting by a top US State Department official with an Iranian counterpart on Monday in Vienna, a further signal that the United States is considering working with its longtime foe, the Islamic (...)
It's the kind of internationally published story that the current military-led (soon to be run by former Field Marshall Abdel Fattah el-Sisi) Egyptian government have been worried about.
A brilliant 17-year-old science student, opposed to he what he (...)
If you were tiring of hearing about the events of September 2012 in Benghazi, Libya before now, you might as well pack up the kids in the car and move to a remote location, because it's going to get a lot worse.
Up to this point in time, there have (...)
Why do Western and Egyptian media disagree so much with each other on the issue of how Egypt is dealing with protests against the current military-backed interim government and with Islamic extremism, in particular the Muslim Brotherhood?
When you (...)
When one of his children brought home a flyer from his elementary school that advertised an Easter Egg hunt at a local Presbyterian church in Dearborn, Michigan, and then asked why was it OK to promote a religious event in a public school, Majed (...)
Kerry's 'Apartheid' remark draws predictable response in Washington
In the world of American politics, there are a few things that almost immediately provoke a ritual kabuki-like dance of condemnation. Criticizing U.S. soldiers is always dangerous (...)
It was called the Demographics unit, which in a way it was, semantically at least. But it was the way it gathered 'data' on the Muslim community in and around New York that upset many people once its existence was revealed. What the unit actually (...)
As President Barack Obama visited Saudi Arabia at the end of March, at a time when relations between the two countries are rocky, a new report on the state of education in Saudi Arabia, and how successful the kingdom has been at eradicating (...)
Glenn Beck, a controversial, popular far-right American TV and radio commentator is well-known for his outrageous opinions on almost every subject.
Beck has a legion of followers - his Facebook page has over a million fans - and at one time, he had (...)
Somali-born author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is well-known as a tireless campaigner for women's rights around the world. But she is also known for her unrelenting criticism of Islam.
She has referred to it in the past as a "cult of death" and said that the (...)
Hundreds of prisoners at Bagram jail have been freed since the Afghan government took over the running of the prison in March 2013. The government has also freed further Taliban prisoners, which is a cause of security concern for the U.S.
In a move (...)
After the downfall and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in late 2011, Libya's restive east has become a safe haven to longstanding pockets of Islamist extremism especially in the two cities of Darnah and Benghazi.
The US State Department has (...)