By Colby Itkowitz Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one. It was only several months earlier, on the night of the terror attacks in Paris, Continue Reading
Stop pitting security and compassion against each other in the Syrian refugee crisis
By Russell Moore Much of the world watched in horror as reports rolled in over the weekend of the barbaric terrorist attack on Paris. At least 120 people were murdered in what appears to be a highly coordinated operation by the Islamic State (ISIS). A few days before, I was in a hospital in Continue Reading
This U.S. city has become the first to elect a Muslim-majority city council
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Hamtramck, a historically Polish-Catholic enclave of Detroit, rose to national prominence more than a decade ago when its city council gave permission to a mosque to broadcast its call to prayer from speakers on its roof. At the time, opponents were angered by what they Continue Reading
The Facebook model for taking on jihadist groups online
By Steven Stalinsky August 27 Steven Stalinsky is executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute. In meetings with U.S. counterterrorism officials, on Capitol Hill and with journalists, I am asked repeatedly about how Twitter has become a driving force behind global Continue Reading
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