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 With the threat of a right-wing anti-democratic impulse strengthened by conservative extremist policies, campaigns, and rhetoric on the rise, the preservation and protection of our democracy [...]

 Sometimes it seems like there are two Americas. One that accepts, loves, and honors, and another that rejects, fears and hates those who are different. To counter the latter face of America [...]

All Saints Church and MPAC Long at the forefront of interfaith cooperation, All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, invited the Muslim Public Affairs Council to hold its annual convention at [...]

I have just returned from an academic trip to Turkey and Jordan. As travel often does, the trip provided me with an added perspective on American life and culture, simply through adding a [...]

In Des Moines, Iowa the Muslim community recently discovered that a man professing interest in converting to Islam, Arvinder Singh,a Sikh, who attend Mosques services for seven years, was in [...]

Discussions about plans to build an Islamic Community Center two blocks away from Ground Zero now include the voice of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who had this to say on the [...]

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A People Before I begin, I want to recognize that the video posted above is about media portrayals of Arabs in American Hollywood films, not Muslims. I [...]

The following is cross-posted from the Washington Post/Newsweek On Faith forum: I am delighted to hear President Obama speaking to the Muslim world in a part of the Muslim world and not just [...]

I generally turn CNN on in the evenings and then ignore it, but my ears perked up when I heard Campbell Brown, in the “Cutting Through the Bull” segment of “Campbell Brown: [...]

In today’s news: Coverage of this weekend’s ‘Pulpit Initiative‘ is rolling in. 33 pastors violated federal law to endorse a political candidate from the pulpit on Sunday. [...]