Taliban: “Death To The Ahmadiyyahs!” (5-29-10)
Today, mourners in Pakistan, of the Ahmadi sect buried 93 victims, from the resulted co-ordinated attack of several gunmen on two mosques; the Garhi Shahu Mosque and the Model Town Mosque in Lahore.

Detroit bus system rejects 'Leaving Islam?' ads as 'pure anti-Muslim hate' (5-28)
Motown has no use for the anti-Muslim ads plastered across the sides of buses in New York City.

Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam' (5-27)
The president's top counterterrorism adviser on Wednesday called jihad a "legitimate tenet of Islam," arguing that the term "jihadists" should not be used to describe America's enemies.

Pakistan decides to restore access to YouTube with limits, says government (5-26)
The information technology secretary says the Pakistani government has decided to restore access to YouTube but will continue to block pages on the video-sharing website deemed offensive to Muslims.

Islam vs. America (5-26)
Our friend, Andy McCarthy - a former Assistant United States Attorney from the Southern District of New York, and the prosecutor who brought jihadists to justice for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing - has written an outstanding book titledThe Grand Jihad - How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.

Islam governs Shalit's condition: Hamas (5-26)
Hamas lawmaker in Gaza Jamal Nassar said his movement treats captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in accordance with Islam and "not according to reactions," referring to the passing of a law that would bar Hamas prisoners from family visits.

Towards a younger, hipper Islam (5-25)
When talking to those of my generation and younger from the Muslim American community, an oft-mentioned challenge is a disconnect from the Islam one knows and believes in and the messaging received in places of worship.

State Department Endorses Islamic Law (5-25)
Last Thursday was “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” and Muslims, predictably, are outraged.

How Islamists Came to Dominate European Islam (5-25)
Western governments have a history of ignoring the Islamists’ repulsive ideology and working with them; the results have never been good.

Islamic cleric in Yemen cites RAND report (5-24)
In a fiery interview yesterday, the American-born Yemeni preacher linked to the suspects in the Fort Hood shootings and Christmas Day attempted airliner attack called on Muslim U.S. soldiers to kill their fellow servicemen.

Quoting the Quran — modestly (5-24)
While this may sound rather strange, a recent Religion News Service piece on the debates surrounding Rima Fakih — “Muslim Miss USA: Progress, or immodesty?” — sort of ticked me off, but for the same reason that I also wanted to praise it.

Staying cool and Islamic on Boiling Point (5-24)
As jazzy music played overhead, radio hosts Amir Mertaban and Mohamad Ahmad chatted casually with their guest, Isaac Yerushalmi, setting a relaxed mood.

America's Muslims: Guilty Until Proven Innocent? (5-24)
Stephan Salisbury: Experience Should Have Taught Us How Not to Deal with Muslims in America

Offensive Facebook page removed (5-22)
The Facebook page that offended Islam and had caused Pakistan to place a ban on the site, has been removed.

TN tea party won't drop speaker for Islam views (5-21)
Tea party organizers will not drop a speaker from a Tennessee convention this weekend despite calls from a national Muslim rights group that considers her anti-Islamic.

Is Drawing Mohammed a Threat to Islam? (5-21)
In response to the ‘death threats’ by a fringe Muslim extremist group in New York, thousands of people worldwide have joined a movement called Everybody Draws Mohammed Day, which is May 20.

The burqa is a war on women (5-21)
A bizarre form of political correctness is preventing us from an open discussion about what is, in fact, female subjugation.

Pakistani court orders Facebook blocked in prophet row (5-19)
A court in Pakistan has ordered the authorities temporarily to block the Facebook social networking site.

Ahmed Rehab: Miss USA scrutiny indicates weird obsession with Islam (5-18)
Why must a Muslim person’s faith come up the moment that person breaks through the mainstream in any conceivable way - regardless of relevance or context?

Breaking Through Misconceptions and Stereotypes (5-18)
An Interview with Hazami Barmada

A testing attempt for Islam’s center (5-18)
A CROWD OF about 500 Muslims gathered on Sunday at the Islamic Society of Boston Community Center in Roxbury to hear Tariq Ramadan, a controversial figure whose grandfather was a founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Saudi editor Jamal Khashoggi resigns from of al-Watan (5-17)
A leading Saudi Arabian journalist has resigned from his post as editor-in-chief of one of the country's more progressive newspapers.

See No Radical Islam, Hear No Radical Islam (5-17)
On May 13, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) confronted  Attorney General Eric Holder about whether radical Islam was the motivating factor in the terrorist plots against the United States over the past year.

Dispute over theology, background led to Caner probe (5-17)
When Liberty University begins the investigation it announced last week into the background of Ergun Caner, president of its seminary, the panel doing the work could explore several questions.

Media Ignores Terror Attack on Florida Mosque (5-17)
A pipe bomb was detonated outside Jacksonville’s Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers last Monday.

Austria Conference Ends With Calls For Better Understanding Of Islam (5-17)
The Third Conference for European Imams and Religious Advisers concluded Monday with a call for a better of understanding of Islam in order to defuse Islamophobia.

THIS Is What “Radical Islam” Means to the Right (5-17)
It means Islam. It means Muslims. It means that an Arab-American woman from Dearborn, Michigan, who wins the Miss USA beauty pageant contest gets called “Miss Hezbollah” for the sole reason that her family comes from Lebanon:

Obama Praised for Removing Radical Islam from Holder's Vocabulary (5-15)
Apparently President Obama has performed some type of surgery on Eric Holder's brain and removed the term "radical islam" and other terms from the United States Attorney General.

Plan to Build Mosque Near Ground Zero Riles Families of 9/11 Victims (5-14)
Outraged family members and community groups are accusing a Muslim group of trying to rewrite history with its plans to build a 13-story mosque and cultural center just two blocks from Ground Zero, where Islamic extremists flew two planes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Holder balks at blaming 'radical Islam' for terror attempts (5-14)
Atty. general admits he hasn't read Arizona law he criticized

Al Qaeda appoints new 'war minister' for Iraq (5-14)
Al Qaeda in Iraq appointed a new 'war minister' for its Islamic State after the group's top two leaders were killed by Iraqi and US forces one month ago.

Opting for insurance policy against Islamic tenets (5-14)
After its fatwa that working in banks is un-Islamic, the Darul Uloom Deoband has now declared that opting for an insurance policy too went against the tenets of Islam.

The MSM: Miserable Misunderstanding Misunderstanders of Islam (5-14)
The media’s reaction to the Faisal Shahzad story was quite telling.  It began with many clamoring for the idea that the would-be bomber had to be a rightwing nutjob.  It ended with many  drawing a curiously sympathetic picture of an enemy of everything we believe in.

It took courage for Franklin Graham to criticize Islam (5-13)
Commentary writer Eboo Patel in his Forum piece states, "We are the world's most religiously diverse nation." That might be true. But it seems as if Islam is the only religion in this country protected by politicians, the news media and comedians — out of fear ("Graham's anti-Muslim jabs hurt Islam — and America," Monday).

Salafists in Gaza: The real thing (5-13)
An extreme movement that makes Hamas look mild by comparison

Headgear in Muslim lands: Beyond the burqa (5-13)
In Islam’s heartlands a covered head has more than one connotation

Debate gives rise to misconceptions about Islam - and Christianity (5-12)
In the debate over the proposed mosque in the Town of Wilson, several misperceptions regarding Islam and Christianity have emerged, local experts say.

Muhammad cartoonist defiant after attack (5-12)
A Swedish artist whose drawing of the Prophet Muhammad offended Muslims said Wednesday he hopes to get another chance to deliver a lecture on free speech that was interrupted by violent protests.

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'... Anything about Shariah Law (5-12)
Elena Kagan, current Solicitor General of The United States and former Dean of the Harvard Law School, exemplifies selective outrage. She knows a lot about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" when it comes to ROTC on the Harvard Campus, but wears official blinders when it comes to Islamic treatment of homosexuals.

The Straw-Man Terrorists (5-12)
Botched bombings shouldn't lull us into a false sense of security.

Islamic Terminology Banned From Times Square Bomber Investigation? (5-11)
PJTV's CEO Roger L. Simon today called for federal agents investigating the Times Square bomber to be unshackled from the ties of censorship in an exclusive PJTV video.

Book Review: A Necessary Engagement—Reinventing America’s Relations With the Muslim World (5-11)
Relations between the ‘Muslim world’ and the ‘West’ have rapidly deteriorated in recent years, and, despite repeated calls for dialogue, they only seem to be further worsening.

Islam's Nowhere Men (5-10)
Millions like Faisal Shahzad are unsettled by a modern world they can neither master nor reject.

Filmmakers in Indonesia Share Women's Stories About Life Under Islamic Law (5-10)
Islamic law has been raising questions in Indonesia, a Muslim-majority nation where some provinces are adopting regulations based on Sharia, or Islamic, principles.

Franklin Graham: Obama's one-sided praise of Islam is horrific (5-10)
The evangelist, who was recently disinvited from a Pentagon prayer event over past comments he made about Islam, pointed to the violence against Muslim women.

National Day of Prayer goes on despite ruling (5-6)
The 59th annual National Day of Prayer was held Thursday against a backdrop of controversy and growing doubts about the future of the event, which a federal judge recently declared unconstitutional.

Rev. Graham: I Don't Have to Be Invited to Pentagon to Pray for Our Troops (5-6)
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Reverend Franklin Graham is here. He's calling on President Obama to give him some backup.

Huge Masjid, Islamic Center soon to be Built Near World Trade Center (5-6)
In effort to tackle misunderstanding about Islam amongst the American society, Cordoba House – a Masjid and Islamic cultural center as well as community center – will be built at 45 Park Place, New York.

Money Woes, Long Silences and a Zeal for Islam (5-5)
Theirs was an arranged marriage: two well-educated children of prominent Pakistani families set up through a mutual friend. He was the quiet one; she was the one who laughed at parties.

A Muslim Condemns Those Who Have 'Hijacked the Faith of Islam' (5-5)
On Tuesday, May 4, Naseem Mahdi, the national vice president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemned radical Muslim fanatics in a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Below is a brief interview with Mr. Mahdi and the transcript of his remarks at Tuesday's press conference.

Publisher of criticized Islam books touts review (5-3)
The publisher of a children's book series on Islam that faced criticism from a Muslim civil rights group has received what it calls a positive review for the set.

Anti-Islam Bashers Find Another Lightening Rod (5-3)
It is really unfortunate that the menace of using nongovernmental organizations to attack Islam has arrived in Nigeria. NGOs have now become weapons of fighting Islam as part of the current Islamophobia around the world.