By Mustafa Akyol Far from spreading Shariah, as Islamophobes have suggested, America’s Muslim clerics are focusing on a more familiar trend: youngsters blending into American life. Since 9/11, a recurrent theme in the far-right circles of America has been “creeping Shariah.” It reflects Continue Reading
Muslims Form Community Patrol. Some Neighbors Say No, Thanks.
By Alexandra E. Petri Maeen Ali remembers the worry he felt when he first spotted the “Punish a Muslim Day” screed online. The letter, mailed last spring throughout England, encouraged violence that ranged from pulling off a woman’s head scarf to bombing mosques. Each attack, the letter Continue Reading
Extremist Imam Tests F.B.I. and the Limits of the Law
By SCOTT SHANE and ADAM GOLDMAN WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, Suleiman Anwar Bengharsa has served as a Muslim cleric in Maryland, working as a prison chaplain and as an imam at mosques in Annapolis and outside Baltimore. He gave a two-week course in 2011 on Islamic teachings on marriage at Continue Reading
Evangelicals Ignore G.O.P. by Embracing Syrian Refugees
By RICHARD FAUSSET and ALAN BLINDER SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 MARIETTA, Ga. — William Stocks, a white, Alabama-born, Republican-leaning member of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, arrived at the tiny apartment of a Syrian refugee family on a Wednesday night after work. He was wearing a green-striped golf Continue Reading
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