Islam

City police search for arsonists throwing flammable bottles

2013-06-19 16:25:00

Baltimore police are looking for arsonists responsible for throwing about a dozen crude incendiary devices at buildings since late April. One of the homes hit by the devices — made from bottles and jugs — belonged to a Muslim family in North...

Rezoning request for Woodmont Academy withdrawn

2013-06-19 08:45:00

A comprehensive zoning request that has drawn the ire of neighbors living near the former home of Woodmont Academy in Cooksville has been withdrawn. Attorney Sang Oh, representing the owners of the 66-acre Woodmont Academy property, said the zoning...

Obama foreign policy follies befuddle right and left alike

2013-06-09 05:00:00

The young Barack Obama's early enthusiasm for anti-war progressivism is well chronicled in his autobiography. Friendships with the likes of anti-war activists/bombers Bill Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn, poet Frank Marshall Davis, and the notorious Rev....

The age of dictators and religious zealots is over

2013-06-14 08:15:00

The recent article on multiculturalism by Bob Ehrlich ("Multiculturalism is the enemy of democracy," June 2) and the response by Wally Pinkard ("America is more than baseball and apple pie," June 7) have opened up a credible discussion on the root...

Racial profiling provision of immigration bill scrutinized

2013-06-12 18:17:29

A coalition of civil liberties and immigrant-rights advocates led by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland wants to strengthen a provision in the Senate's sweeping immigration bill that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from racial profiling. The 867-page,...

Multiculturalism is the enemy of democracy

2013-06-02 05:00:00

"You people will never be safe. Remove your governments, they don't care about you." — Michael Adebolajo, one of two men arrested in the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby. Here we go again. Brazen and brutal attacks against British and French...

Turkey strays from its democratic traditions

2013-06-06 09:23:00

As the Arab Spring unfolded in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East, Turkey was held out as a model for how Islam and democracy could co-exist. This week's massive civil unrest in Turkey, erupting over the destruction of the Gezi Park in Istanbul'...

It takes two to end a war

2013-05-30 00:00:00

"This war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands." -- President Barack Obama at National Defense University, May 23, 2013 They say all is fair in love and war (I'm skeptical), but that doesn't mean war...

Benghazi: The Obama spin continues

2013-05-12 05:00:00

"Bumps in the road." — President Barack Obama on the unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East that included the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, an information officer, and two Navy SEALS. "Crude and disgusting"… "an...

Israel's critics ignore discrimination in the Arab and Muslim world

2013-05-06 12:45:00

The article by Zainab Choudry and Saqib Ali on Israel's supposed discrimination against Arab-American and Muslim citizens is missing a big part of the story in the Arab and Muslim world ("Don't let Israel discriminate," April 30). Former Secretary of...

Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly

2013-05-07 03:00:00

The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...

Visa program doesn't discriminate against Arabs, Muslims

2013-05-03 06:45:00

Commentators Zainab Choudry and Saqib Ali complain that Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin co-sponsored legislation to extend a visa waiver program to Israel ("Don't let Israel discriminate," April 30). The waiver program currently allows citizens of 37...

Whirling dervishes perform a traditional (Al-Tannoura Egyptian folk dance) Sufi dance during a Ramadan night show in Old Cairo August 26, 2009.

2013-05-22 10:39:00

Malaysian Islamic religious officers detain a Muslim woman after she was found together in the same room with a man at a budget hotel during a raid in Kuala Lumpur.

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Kashmiri Muslims react as an unseen priest shows a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar on Febuary 1,2013.

2013-02-01 00:00:00