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Muslim Leadership Initiative: Finding the Way Forward

Table of Content The Love/Hate Narrative Who is having Hummus with the Hasbara A Request to Critics An Appeal to MLI cohorts and imam Abdullah Antepli Shalom Hartman has Power and Influence A Window...

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Radical Atheism and the Threat of Freethinking Terror

NB: The below is based on New Atheist Sam Harris' “concentric circle” analysis of the Muslim world and its alleged predisposition toward violence. You can see Harris' comments here or read the...

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God and His Victory are With The Peaceful!

We've seen far too many sad days recently. Just yesterday, a synagogue and free-speech event in Denmark was attacked, claiming one life and leaving several wounded. Last week, three Muslim college...

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Conflating Laïcité with Free Speech: The French Are Making a Mistake about...

by James D. Le Sueur The Charlie Hebdo and anti-Semitic terrorist attacks in France have propelled the French culture wars back into action.  Old but re-vivified identity debates abound as...

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The Rise of the Far Right and Islam

The Far Right is spreading throughout Europe and becoming an influential force within politics and wider society.[2] 2014 was the first time that three Far Right parties came first in the EU...

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Stop. On Thugs and Rioters and Human Beings

I'm not sure I have the words for what I'm trying to say, but I'm going to give it a try. I don't speak with any authority or a more valid perspective than you or anyone else. I'm just speaking to you...

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Muslim Activists Should Stop Defending Pam Geller’s Right to Mock Prophet...

Muslims Don't Just Condemn Everything – They Defend Your Right to Everything! How would you react if you came to learn Western Muslim leaders had stated, “We don't support the views of the Ku Klux...

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Letter to the Editor: Mass Graves of Rohingya in Thailand — Appeal to ASEAN

MASS GRAVES OF ROHINGYA IN THAILAND: ASEAN MUST END HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE REGION. Dear Chief Editors, Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM) was deeply sad to hear...

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Oslo Conference on Rohingya 2015 – Clips from International Leaders and...

Selected clips from messages of support for Rohingya rights and for the Oslo Conference to End Myanmar's Systematic Persecution of the Rohingyas. See George Soros (Open Society Foundation), Mairead...

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Sunrise Over the Euphrates: Sarah’s Story of Asian Twitter, ISIS, Guilt and...

People striving to find peace, who are religiously motivated but with little knowledge and often ridden by guilt are easy targets for political movements and militants who are using Islam for their...

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Uyghurs in China: We Buried the Quran in Our Backyards

With the news of China forcing imams to dance in public and to make oaths to keep children away from religion in what is known as Xinjiang, where government officials warned that Muslims “During...

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3 Points You Need to Know About Srebrenica

1. Worst massacre in Europe since WWII Srebrenica was the first ever UN safe area. Yet in July 1995 the worst atrocities in Europe since WWII occurred there. Over an 11-day period the Army of Republika...

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What Muslims Are Saying About The Paris Attacks

A series of six alleged terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night have left at least 120 dead and many wounded. Here is a collection of tributes, condolences and reactions from Muslim scholars and...

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8 Signs of Extremists According to the Prophet ﷺ | Yahya Ibrahim

Muslims are struggling to understand that people can murder in their name and the Name of our Lord. It is easy to simply say that these are just crazy people, or had a troubled upbringing or are paid...

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The Paris Massacre, Assessing the Muslim Response

I do not regard lightly, the loss of any innocent life that Allah has made inviolable. Innocent life is sacred, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, nationality, or ethnicity. It is Allah who...

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ISIS and Its Faulty Logic

I want to state that this is not a rant against the 'West' or 'Europeans' or 'Americans' or any such grouping. I am more than aware that we, the ordinary people of every country today, are each equally...

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Texas Falls Victim to Terror

Syrian boys, whose family fled their home in Idlib, walk to their tent, at a camp for displaced Syrians, in the village of Atmeh, Syria, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 Terror has taken over Texas. Not with guns...

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Airstrikes into Syria: Insight Rather than Rhetoric

By Shaykh Muhammad Nizami   This article published on nizami.co.uk seeks to explore the discussions being had on the decision to extend airstrikes against ISIL into Syrian territory and offer insight...

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President Obama’s Speech at Mosque Missed American Families Victimized by...

Oped By Mariam Abu-Ali Mariam Abu-Ali was born and raised in Northern VA. She graduated from Georgetown University with a major in Government and a minor in Arabic. After graduating, she worked as a...

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Keep Victims in Your Heart and Your Brain on The Ball

By Ahmed Rehab Unfortunately, once again we wake up to scenes of chaos and mayhem, this time in Brussels, as major attacks kill 26 and wound 130 at the airport and on the subway, with the fatalities...

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