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
Rising Restrictions on Religion
Restrictions on religious beliefs and practices rose between mid-2006 and mid-2009 in 23 of the world’s 198 countries (12%), decreased in 12 countries (6%) and remained essentially unchanged in 163 countries (82%), according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Continue Reading