Accepting Islam

Many Muslims have a more thorough knowledge of the US constitution than most other American

Some Stand with Ahmad Economist: AN OUTSIZED Stars and Stripes; a giant car park; a children’s playground prettily flanked by hayfields, whitewashed clapboard houses glistening nearby. Ossama Bahloul’s building has many of the regular accoutrements of southern houses of worship. On his desk inside there is another, miniature, American flag, […]

When clocks are bombs

Al Jazeera: Donning his NASA T-shirt, young Ahmed Mohamed walked into his ninth grade class Monday morning, proudly holding the clock he had meticulously assembled at home. The 14-year-old Muslim American student, with a zeal for assembling, disassembling and fixing radios, computers and go-karts, hoped to draw the praise of […]

The Myth of Muslim Unity

It happened 41 years ago today, September 7, 1974:  Muslim unity. And then it disappeared. And despite the sectarian violence, fatwas of infidelity, and state sanctioned terrorism, the myth of Muslim unity pervades the Muslim “Ummah.” I call it a myth because in every spectrum where it truly matters, Muslim […]