Josh Rogin / Washington Post Spirits were high Wednesday night at Washington’s Capital One Arena, where a group of young Uighur activists — most of them U.S. citizens — came together at the Wizards’ home opener against the Houston Rockets to raise awareness of their peoples’ plight. But their Continue Reading
A Push to Deny Muslims Religious Freedom Gains Steam
Aysha Khan / Religion & Politics / July 16, 2019 Once a fringe argument restricted to extreme anti-Muslim corners of the internet, the idea that Islam is not actually a religion, and therefore does not qualify for religious liberty protections, has rapidly gained salience in mainstream Continue Reading
Creeping Theo-Progressivism: Radical Islam and the Radical Left
by Sam Westrop City Journal March 12, 2019 In 2018, the first two Muslim women elected to Congress – Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib – did so with the help of both Islamist and progressivist bases. For years, critics have thought the collaboration between Islamist groups and sections of the Left Continue Reading
How the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan came to be at the center of a D.C. political flap
By Michelle Boorstein Chris Hawthorne was 16 in the spring of 1989 when the Nation of Islam brought hip-hop giant Public Enemy to the banks of the Anacostia River. Crack, AIDS and murder were running roughshod on the District, particularly in Ward 8, where Hawthorne was growing up. But if the Continue Reading