By AYMANN ISMAIL For Muslims who grew up in the West, a mosque can be the only place where you get to be yourself. As a member of a highly politicized minority group, being with other Muslims can feel like the only way to not have your identity assigned to you. Like other places of worship, a Continue Reading
The Islamization of Radicalism
By Isaac Chotiner Over the past several years, Olivier Roy, a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, has come to be regarded as one of the world's leading experts on political Islam.* Roy has offered up a theory, generally applied to Europe, on the “Islamization of Continue Reading