Between the Christmas Day airliner attack, the recent spate of domestic terrorism arrests and the Fort Hood shooting, people are understandably concerned about homegrown terrorism involving Muslim-Americans. And while the potential for this form of terrorism is real, it is largely overstated. Despite a troubling spike in terrorism arrests and incidents in 2009, violent terrorist [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP): On Wednesday, Department of US State announced that the ban that was imposed on two Muslim scholars, Adam Habib and Tariq Ramadan, during the bush  era has been lifted. This decision was made as there was absolutely no threat from these two scholars to Americas national security. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said [...]

London: The debt owed by European scholars to their Muslim counterparts on everything from water pumps and blood circulation to engineering and map-making was unveiled in a London exhibition yesterday. The organisers of “1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World” hope to illuminate 1,000 years of neglected science from north Africa to China [...]

Frustrated by the negative Muslim stereotypes fueled by high-profile acts of violence and terrorism, a group of Chicago’s faith and community leaders are launching a campaign to eradicate these misconceptions by building new relationships across ethnic and racial divides. “I think the American population, all of us are susceptible to what happens on a daily [...]