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Message to Muslims: I’m Sorry

Many Americans have suggested that more moderate Muslims should stand up to extremists, speak out for tolerance, and apologize for sins committed by their brethren.

Three Sides of the Qu’ran Burning Triangle

Ever since the 1989 “Satanic Verses” by Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie, the Muslim public, inflamed by some of their religious leaders, has been easily incited if not directly manipulated.

They took the pastor’s bait, just like they took bin Laden’s

Having scammed his way to centre stage, Terry Jones pivoted at the last moment. He cancelled his plan to burn the Quran, but only on the basis of an utterly

Kill Them

Michael Enright, a 21-year-old college student, slashed a NYC cab driver in the face and neck because this man was Muslim.

Mosque and myth

The prevailing disputation over the right of Muslim Americans to build a community centre and mosque a short distance from the site of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks has

Why America Needs More Muslims

There is already a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center -- it’s been there since 1985. Men and women pray together at Masjid al-Farah; its services are

Hidden Intelligence Operation Behind the Wikileaks Release of ‘Secret’ Documents?

Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of unarmed journalists in Iraq, Wiki-Leaks has gained global notoreity and credibility as a daring website

The cases of Omar Khadr and Bradley Manning

Lawrence Davidson shows how popular apathy and parochialism, combined with control of the information flow by the US government and its allied mass media, has led to a situation whereby

The arrogance of American power

Paul J. Balles argues that the continued presence of 1,000 American military bases outside the USA nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union is a symptom of

Al-Qaeda losing supporters in jihadi groups across Arab world

The main rift within the circles of the so-called jihadi groups in the Arab world first appeared in the mid to late 1990s.