History & Politics
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ‘POLITICAL ISLAM’ AND HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM OTHER KINDS OF ISLAM? I hope we’ve…
Perhaps the first incident that began to plant negative seeds about Muslims began with the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. This…
Around 1.6 billion Muslims inhabit the world today, and an estimated three to seven million reside in the United States.…
Hearing about two gunmen killed in Texas at an event that included a contest for drawing Muhammad cartoons, my first…
Every few days, we seem to wake up to another massacre committed by ISIS. And these are, of course, only…
A Muslim woman in Philadelphia was arrested this week and accused of attempting to join ISIS. One of my students…
During the 5th Crusade St. Francis undertook what most considered a senseless and foolhardy mission: convert the most powerful Muslim…