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San Diego: Muslim Assaulted and told “Go back home”

The Council on American-Islamic relations (CAIR) is seeking hate charges against a man who assaulted a Muslim.

Academia dances to the tune of politics

Towards the end of his academic career, Bernard Lewis, the famous professor of the Middle East in Princeton University, wrote an essay titled Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle

Cosmopolitan Islamism and its Critics

4Shbab is an emerging music-television channel based in Cairo, financed by Saudi investors, and directed towards a global Muslim public. Through its programming and public and private statements of its

End of the Dialogue?

At the beginning of March, IslamOnline.net was one of the most successful websites in the Middle East. Now the editorial team are locked in a power struggle with their Islamist

Islamophobia – Now in American Children’s Textbooks?

True, the demonizing of Arabs and Muslims in America began well before the terrible tragedy of September 11, 2001 but, what is new post-9/11, is that now demonizing Muslims and

The death and reincarnation of Islam Online

It seems the Islam Online saga is finally drawing to an end, although not necessarily the one hoped for by employees of its Cairo-based office.

Caught in the Web

A widely popular Islamic website has been, until very recently, an undisputed success story. IslamOnline arrived at a time that millions of Muslims needed a common platform and a unifying

New Grand Sheikh at Al-Azhar University Fighting Extremism in A Suit and Tie

The new grand sheikh of al-Azhar University, Ahmed al-Tayyib, is considered open-minded and moderate. He rejects all forms of political Islam and would like to continue to lead the most

Who’s afraid of 9/11 conspiracy theories?

Maidhc ? Cathail views some of the more intriguing facts as reported in the mainstream media implicating Israel in the 9/11 attack on the New York Twin Towers.

Grandson of MB founder has travel ban lifted

Tarek Ramadan, grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement founder, Hassan el Banna, has had his travel ban lifted and was issued a visa. He was formerly banned on ideological grounds