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Oscar winning producer Osborne produces film about Islam to bridge gaps

"The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" producer Barrie Osborne is set to produce what he describes as an epic film about the true meaning of Islam in an

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

The Islamist Response to Repression: Are Mainstream Islamist Groups Radicalizing?

Today, some of the Middle East’s most prominent Islamist groups are in a state of crisis, racked by internal divisions and struggling to respond to regime repression. With key U.S.

Shame on ADL for opposing Mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero

The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) publicly opposes the construction two blocks from Ground Zero of the Cordoba House (also known as Park 51), which the planners imagine as hosting a range

Burning of Quran evident aggression against Muslims

The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has advocated on its website the intention of burning copies of the Quran.

Fight Islamic extremism through integration

It is clear that this country is never going to be (and never was) a uni-racial, uni-cultural place. Multicultural, multiracial, multireligious societies are more and more going to be the

Egyptian and US scholars unite to bridge religious gap

A group of young American religious scholars and teaching assistants from Egypt 's oldest and renowned Azhar University engaged in a two week interactive project in an effort to bridge

Islamists in Bangladesh face constant suppression

Since its coming into power in early 2009, there have been numerous reports that the Awami League in Bangladesh has been torturing leaders of opposition political parties in an attempt

The impresario: Gilles Kepel, scholar of radical Islam

After a series of books established him as a world-famous analyst of radical Islam, Gilles Kepel decided to stop writing and start mapping a renaissance in Gulf-Europe relations. John Gravois