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The arrests of two American Muslims, one American born (Abdel Hameed Shehadeh in Hawaii) and one naturalized (Farooque Ahmed in Virginia) this week for planning attacks and aspiring to become terrorists has once again reminded everyone of the threat of “homegrown” terrorism. In...

I interviewed Glen Urquhart the Republican candidate for the Delaware Congressional seat and his opponent John Carney, the Democratic nominee on foreign policy. My conversations with them provided insights into their personality, values and their vision for American foreign...

Where books are burned in the end people will burn.” – Heinrich Heine On May 10th, 1933 the Nazis burned 25,000 books — including those written by Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who had predicted in 1820 that “where books are burned in the end people will burn,” – and eight years...

The Park51 controversy has brought many dark elements to the fore. To my mind the foremost danger is the mainstreaming of a pernicious partnership between prejudice and politics. Come December, the politicians will abandon the issue and the bigots, strengthened and empowered by...

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann said that anti-Muslim rhetoric in America is bad news for anti-terrorism efforts: “We are handing al Qaeda a propaganda coup, an absolute propaganda coup.” By many accounts, the man who could blunt the power...

This article was published in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette [03.25.2007], Daily News Egypt [03.09.2007], AltMuslim [03.03.2007],  Pakistan Link,  Middle East Window, Turkish Daily News [04.10.2007 ], OpEd news [03.19.2007],Ikhwanweb [02.11.07],  and many other places. Muslims and...

The Story of Rabbi Mukhayriq  This article was published in The News Journal | 12.01.2009 |  AltMuslim |12.28.2009| The American Muslim |12.01.2009 | Islamicity |12.04.2009| and many more places. There are many stories that contemporary Imams rarely tell their congregations. The...

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...