Suddenly being a muslim feels like being part of a community that is under a microscope. It’s like a new virus that is being examined by clinical analysts, all of...

“Most counterterrorism policies fail, not because of tactical problems, but because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what motivates terrorists in the first...

Waleed Al Tabtaba’i, a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament, writes in Al Watan daily (26.9.2008), “Japan and Germany are studying the Shari’a’s economic and...

The recent terror attacks (no need to specify the place as they have now become ubiquitous) left me not just depressed but contemplating too. People, including the most...

Two doctors charged with trying to bomb a Glasgow airport and London’s West End will be portrayed by prosecutors as terrorists in thrall to a fundamental form of...

Islam is an ethical religion Muslims invented algebra Muslims translated the works of the Greek philosophers Muslims pioneered medicine. At a time when Europeans...

Sandela Kanwal wanted a divorce for unknown reasons. Maybe her husband in Chicago was a wife-beater. Maybe she just didn’t like him. We don’t know. For...

An American member of al-Qaida pointed to economic troubles in the United States as proof that “the enemies of Islam” face defeat, in an English-language...

A 24-year-old convert to Islam has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for plotting to blow off hand grenades in a crowded shopping mall during the Christmas season.

Almost every survey about Turkish society reveals that religious observance is becoming more visible but also less dense. Let me tell you why… Mainstream Turkish...

As a Muslim woman living in the embrace of a vibrantly secular, liberal democratic society, you are constantly caught between two very different worlds. On the one...

Situated between Algeria and Libya along the Mediterranean, the tiny North African Republic of Tunisia is not a nation known for making headlines. But its small size...

While advocating “zero tolerance towards terrorism”, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M. Venkaiah Naidu has come out strongly against equating terrorists with...

The belief that going after criminals behind bomb blasts is in conflict with being “secular” is the most “communal” thought and the Centre”s silence is...

In my previous post titled ‘There is no limit, it is coming for us!’ I wrote about the unquestionable power extremist has been given by Islam; I was writing in the...

“Peace” is apparently the word on the lips of British politicians whenever the omens point, in stiff armed salute, to catastrophe. In 1938, Neville Chamberlain gave...

To all who think Iran doesn’t have expansionist goals, look no further than Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza. These are not the military invasions of the Nazis, but...

The islands struggle between coups and unemployment leads to adoption of Islamic law. Many years ago the Comoros Islands were known for their exports of perfume...

How do Muslims see Barack Hussein Obama? They have three choices: either as he presents himself – someone who has “never been a Muslim” and has...

Two of the Arab world’s most prominent Muslim theologians have waded into a bitter exchange of barbs, engaging in a debate that is a small-scale rendition of the...