“A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according … [Keep reading >>]

Good work at the NY Times, with a front page Sunday investigative piece:  Why the multi-state drive to create fear of imposition of Islamic sharia?  Aha!  It’s not quite as … [Keep reading >>]

Good article in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Science in Muslim societies already lags far behind the scientific achievements of the West, but what adds a fair amount of contemporary angst … [Keep reading >>]

From the front page of the NY Times:
“I am more scared than I’ve ever been — more scared than I was after Sept. 11.”
That was a refrain echoed by many … [Keep reading >>]

NY Times Online – Dick Cavett
All this talk about the mosque reminds me of two things I heard growing up in Nebraska.
I had a 6th grade teacher who referred to … [Keep reading >>]

From USA today:
Rev. Franklin Graham is leading a “disinformation campaign” against President Obama by attacking Obama’s Christian faith and distorting Islam’s theology, says a leading religion professor.
After CNN’s … [Keep reading >>]

I wasn’t going to post anything about Michael Jackson’s death. I was way outside the cultural commotion he raised and thought of it as just more of the American … [Keep reading >>]

Wow! This is what we’re talkin’ ’bout!

“President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 … [Keep reading >>]

“one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide”—

John McCain, of Reverend Rod Parsley … [Keep reading >>]