by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 17, 2012 | News
(RNS) FBI officials say they are willing to consider a proposal from a coalition of Muslim and interfaith groups to establish a committee of experts to review materials used in FBI anti-terrorism training. The coalition raised the idea during a Feb 8 meeting with FBI...
by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 13, 2012 | News
(RNS) If you think good Muslim women wait for marriage to have sex, think again. “I’m an unmarried, Muslim non-virgin,” declares Insiya Ansari, a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. “I’ve said it aloud.” “And no, I...
by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 9, 2012 | News
(RNS) The threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism is “tiny” and often exaggerated by government officials, a leading anti-terrorism expert said in a report released Wednesday (Feb. 8). Charles Kurzman, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at...
by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 6, 2012 | News
(RNS) More than 30 Muslim and legal advocacy groups are urging New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman to investigate the New York City Police Department after the second scandal in as many weeks involving Muslim Americans. On Thursday (Feb. 2), The Associated...
by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 1, 2012 | News
(RNS) North American Muslims are more than satisfied with the secular legal system and do not want a set of parallel courts for Islamic law, according to a new study of U.S. and Canadian Muslims by a Washington-based think tank. The study, by University of Windsor law...
