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A Sign of Empire Pathology: More US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in action Here is a shocking statistic that you won't hear in most western news media: over the past nine years, more US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in ... Read More »

Nine members of a Christian militia group, Hutaree, were charged Monday with plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more with homemade bombs. According to the indictment, the actions were done in hopes of igniting an uprising against the U.S. government. News of this terror plot is likely to ... Read More »

Yesterday, Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto. Read More »

Recently, I wrote a review for Groundswell. Today, I want to show how we are trying to utilize some of these technologies with 2 goals in mind, 1. Make it easier for you to follow MuslimMatters through our various avenues (blog, podcast, newsfeed, etc.) 2. Get some ideas for utilizing these technologies in your own projects. Read More »

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As counter-intuitive as it may seem, the prescription for effective community based PR starts with embracing the truth that we (American Muslims) disagree and are fairly divided among ourselves on many issues. Confidence in our unique positions, tempered by tolerance, will allow for us to increase our community's maturity by formulating councils for internal discussions and issue resolution. Read More »

Christopher Hitchens, pseudointellectual atheist extraordinaire, as part of an article for this August's Vanity Fair magazine, submitted himself for perhaps a somewhat unique experience – waterboarding. There has been some back and forth debate among policy makers the past few years about whether or not to categorize waterboarding as torture, ... Read More »

Last week I was up in DC for some government-relations work, and was a bit shocked to receive a request from FOX News for an interview on the Presidential Race. Generally speaking, whenever the issue came up in my conversations with national Muslim leaders over the past few months, I ... Read More »