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It’s International Hijab Day. The event began in 2004 to protest the French government’s ban on wearing the…
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A Twist of Faiths: Claremont’s Mission to Desegregate Religion
The Claremont School of Theology, founded 126 years ago to create Methodist ministers, has plans to train rabbis and imams alongside its Christian preachers. The alliance, Claremont administrators say, will create the nation’s first Islamic seminary, awarding the country’s first graduate degrees in Muslim leadership. But the idea has agitated people inside and outside the institution.
The Fear of a Sharia Planet
While laws preventing Islamic legal codes from supplanting American jurisprudence are often thrown out, that isn’t stopping Sharia from becoming a wedge issue in the 2012 election.
A Spotlight on the 9/11 Anti-Muslim Backlash
Ten years after the attacks, a sociologist sizes up the social impacts of post-9/11 anti-Muslim prejudice in the United States.
Welcome to Shelbyville: Loving, Fearing Thy Neighbors
In the documentary film "Welcome to Shelbyville," a small Tennessee town deals with an influx of residents from Somalia.
Why Are the World’s Muslims So Mad at America?
Perceived American influence and its failure to live up to its freedom-loving rhetoric pour into a gulf of discontent in the Muslim world.
Burqa Ban a Boundary to Multicultural Impulse?
France's newly enacted law banning face coverings in public reinforces the idea we explored last year that waves of multiculturalism are receding for now.
Muslim-American Terrorism Down in 2010
While U.S. Rep. Peter King holds hearings on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism, those who actually look at the issue say the incidence is small and dropped last year.
Protecting the Child Beggars of Senegal
When they beg for alms, are Senegalese "talibés" supporting Quranic schools — or being exploited? The government begins a fitful program of regulation.
Funding Mosques from the State Treasury
Secular European governments give money to Muslim congregations in an effort to defang radicalism imported from foreign sources.