Israeli troops have begun demolishing a concrete wall erected nine years ago to protect the Jewish settlement of Gilo on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem. The...
A group of progressive Muslim-Americans plans to build an Islamic community center two and a half blocks from ground zero in lower Manhattan. They have had...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PenCSrZWqak[/youtube] DEARBORN, Mich. — A Michigan high school football team is holding preseason practices in the middle of the night to help its Muslim players practice...
Panama City, Florida (CNN) — President Barack Obama told CNN Saturday that in defending the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque near...
Crossposted with TomDispatch.com. There is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. The angry “debate” over whether...
Washington (CNN) — President Obama threw his support behind a controversial proposal to build an Islamic center and mosque near New York’s ground zero, saying Friday...
By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer – Fri Aug 13, 6:12 am ET NEW YORK – The lunar calendar that Muslims follow for religious holidays is creating a potential for misunderstandings...
Some of the world’s most prominent Muslim leaders are joining a series of webcasts highlighting the life of Prophet Mohammed during the fasting month of Ramadan, which...
By Alison Lake This essay is the first in a series about religious conversion. If you’d like to submit your story of religious conversion, email onfaith@washingtonpost.com....
JUDAISM AND Islam developed with only marginal reference to Christianity, but Christianity’s evolution has been entangled with the two other monotheisms — as essential foils. That...
