Introduction There are many sources which paint all Muslims as violent jihadis who are hell-bent on taking over the world. Still other sources would have us believe that all Muslims, with the exception of an infinitesimal minority, are peace loving do-gooders who only want to better humanity. Yet, Continue Reading
Muslims battle to be official voice of U.S. Islam
As president of the Phoenix-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy, an eight-year-old group that twins conservative and Islamic values, Zuhdi Jasser is no fan of the more visible Council on American-Islamic Relations. Washington-based CAIR and too many other U.S. Muslim groups, Jasser says, are Continue Reading
Mapping the Global Muslim Population
A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion. While Muslims are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60% of the global Continue Reading
Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques
How great is the danger of extremist violence in the name of Islam in the United States? Recent congressional hearings into this question by Rep. Peter King (Republican of New York), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, have generated a firestorm of controversy among his colleagues, the Continue Reading