by Nick Mumejian | Mar 17, 2026 | Opinion
My teacher, the late Professor Mahmoud Ayoub, used to say ignorance is the original sin of interfaith relations. Not malice, but ignorance. Malice, he believed, was simply ignorance that had found a megaphone. I have thought of him often these past two weeks, as the...
by Sari Bashi | Mar 13, 2026 | Opinion
Israeli leaders want us to believe the US-Israeli-Iranian war is an ethno-religious conflict. It isn’t. In his February 28 speech launching the US-Israeli-Iranian war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to rally Israeli citizens by invoking the story of...
by Ali Khan | Dec 17, 2025 | Opinion
For the past 30 years, the Islamic Academy of Alabama (IAA) has been nestled in a leafy neighborhood near the Birmingham Zoo, about a ten-minute drive from my first home. It serves more than 200 students and has an almost 100 percent university-enrollment rate among...
by Ali Khan | Apr 29, 2025 | Opinion
If you ask someone in most Muslim-majority countries about Zionism, they may not be able to define it. They probably can’t explain its historical evolution or recognize its veneer of “Judeo-Christian” theology. However, if you were to describe the role Zionism has...
