By Dilshad D. Ali Growing up in North Dakota in the 1980s and 1990s, there was nobody who shared my family’s last name. “Husain? Hoooooo-sayn? You’re not related to … ?” teachers would sometimes ask. No, I would explain, I wasn’t. My name was spelled differently from the then-dictator Saddam Continue Reading
An American Muslim Preacher Faces His Own Mortality
By Leila Fadel On a recent night in Chicago, a Muslim preacher sits on the floor in the center of an ethnically mixed and mostly young group of men and women. Around him, a drum circle sings praises of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. Mint tea is served on gold trays. A man with a hipster beard Continue Reading
The American Leader in the Islamic State
By Graeme Wood dawn on a warm september morning in 2013, a minivan pulled up to a shattered villa in the town of Azaz, Syria. A long-bearded 29-year-old white man emerged from the building, along with his pregnant British wife and their three children, ages 8, 4, and almost 2. They had been in Continue Reading
Muslim Americans Speak of Escalating Worries
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and LAURIE GOODSTEIN Muslim Americans, already alarmed by the election of Donald J. Trump, said Friday that Mr. Trump’s choices for crucial posts heightened their fears of discrimination, violence, deportation and even detention. Many said they worried that a more hostile Continue Reading