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Muslims Fighting Terror

Far from being "silent co-conspirators" -- as some are wont to call the Muslim community -- Muslims are an instrumental part of the fight against the terrorists and extremists who

Muslims must not pay price for Europe’s identity crisis

While many Muslims share the same feeling of nationalism and patriotism in their homelands in Europe targetting Muslims is a common denominator.

Blog of the week: Practice what you preach

As the saying goes: “practice what you preach for” and we do not wish that our authoritarian and racist government or our police state could in any day feel ashamed

Anti-Semitism Up, Islamophobia Down

A new academic research says that hatred towards Muslims decreased over the past year while hatred of Jews is growing. Israelis must be concerned, says Gilad Atzmon.

Major Hasan and Rabbi/Senator Lieberman

Now we see US soldiers, prior to deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, highly charged bumped with 'Christian faith and Muslim hate' by Evangelical chaplains promoting their own form of Evangelical

European identity politics in play

Switzerland’s vote has exposed long-festering uneasiness within Europe toward immigration and members of ethnic communities, particularly those that are Muslim, says Ariel Kastner

A Swiss minaret ban echoes in Belgium, but why?

A Flemish municipality, named Beringen, applied for installing speakers on the minarets of their Fatih mosque, a Turkish-Ottoman styled mosque and one of the biggest of Belgium.

Israeli rabbi describes Islam as “ugly”

Israel’s former top Rabbi, Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, harshly criticized Islam as a religion and described it as an “ugly” faith during a speech he delivered on

Before We Damn Switzerland

On October 27 I was on a visit to Switzerland and in this column I wrote from there a first article about the battle over minarets.

Zahran calls for International action to abolish the minarets ban in Switzerland

Hamdi Zahran, member of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc, has called for both national and international action to stop Switzerland's government from passing a decision on banning the establishment of