By Brian Pellot Not again. Police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire at Pamela Geller’s “Muhammad Art Exhibit” in Garland, Texas last night. The news hit hard for three reasons: A security officer was needlessly shot and a town terrorized, ostensibly over art. The gunmen’s actions Continue Reading
Was Winnie The Pooh a Good Muslim?
By Andy Bannister 1. Introduction In recent years a growing trend among many Muslims has been to make the claim that Jesus was a ‘good Muslim’[1]. Others have described him as ‘a prophet of Islam’. Their method has been simple: by mining the New Testament Gospels they have sought to show that Continue Reading
Why Are Muslims the Fastest Growing Religious Group?
BY MICHAEL LIPKA AND CONRAD HACKETT The expected growth of Islam around the world is perhaps the most striking finding in the recent Pew Research Center report projecting the future of religious groups. Indeed, Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between Continue Reading
Are radical Muslims the result of what’s taught at Islam’s most prestigious school?
BY GERT VAN LANGENDONCK McClatchy Foreign StaffApril 14, 2015 CAIRO — Al Mu’tasim Billah, Sufyan al Omari and Omar al Masri are 21-year-old students at Cairo’s al Azhar University, the oldest and most prestigious institute of Sunni Islamic learning in the world. But none of them is planning to Continue Reading