A summary of news and commentary on the controversy surrounding the planned construction near the former World Trade Center site…
Round-up: the Cordoba House controversy
Islam
“Why Americans should care about Ahmadiyya Muslims”
Naseem Mahdi, vice president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, hopes to call attention to the Ahmadiyya movement as a…
Cosmic war on a global scale: An interview with Mark Juergensmeyer
As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer…
Tamara Sonn on The Future of Islam
Tamara Sonn, Professor of Religion and Humanities at the College of William and Mary, reviews The Future of Islam, by…
Six degrees of separation not enough?
Robert Wright, in The New York Times, on the Cordoba House---now Park51---controversy.
“Can you do counterterrorism without theology?”
"Can you do counterterrorism without theology?" Increasingly, critics are calling into question the Western strategy of supporting moderate and more…
Germany offers rehab for Islamic radicals
USA Today reported yesterday on a novel tactic for combating Islamic radicalism now being implemented in Germany.
Syrian secularism, a model?
Following up on a recent interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on a special edition of the Charlie Rose Show,…
The battle over Islamic Azad University
A university campus has become the ground for a political battle between conservatives and moderates in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
Teaneck, NJ, selects Muslim mayor
Teaneck, NJ, "the first community in the nation with a white majority to voluntarily desegregate its public schools" in the…