By Roy Oksnevad The row concerning Shari’a [Shariah] creeping into North America has filled the blogosphere. According to NPR, by the summer of 2010, anti-Shari’a laws were being introduced in several state legislatures. Louisiana, Arizona, and Tennessee have all passed versions of a bill 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
Controversies Over Mosques and Islamic Centers Across the U.S.
This map shows the locations of 37 proposed mosques and Islamic centers that have encountered community resistance in the last three years. In many cases, the opposition has centered on neighbors' concerns about traffic, noise, parking and property values - the same objections that often greet Continue Reading