Monthly Archives: September 2010

The eccentric Russian head of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) on Thursday announced a 10-million-dollar bid to buy the site of a controversial mosque project near Ground Zero in New York.

A well-known imam voices his concern that animals are given much more attention than neighbours in Moscow

At a recent press conference, President Obama responded to a question about growing suspicion of Islam, saying, “We don’t differentiate between us and them. It’s just us.” Unfortunately, this is not the reality that many Muslims here and around the world are experiencing. Nonetheless, Obama’s remarks point to an empirical fact: Millions of Muslims call the United States their home. Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison is one of them.

Saudi Arabia finances terror and doesn’t deserve our aid, says Rep. Anthony Weiner of huge military package.

A one-legged Chechen boxer injured in an explosion at a Copenhagen hotel was preparing a letter bomb, likely intended for a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, police said Friday.

Al-Ahram, the state-run newspaper in Egypt, recently ran the below photo of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak leading President Obama and other world leaders during Middle East peace talks at the White House.

The head of the Saudi Arab Culture and Arts Association urged Muslim religious clerics to issue a definitive ruling on whether singing and playing music are permissible in Islam or not.

A U.S. cartoonist who proposed an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” last spring went into a hiding after receiving threats from Islamic extremists, U.S. media reported.

Israeli soldiers shot dead a local commander of the armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas in the West Bank on Friday, Israeli military and Palestinian security sources said.

A judge has demanded an imam who wants to build a mosque near New York's ground zero produce documents proving he's making repairs at two northern New Jersey apartment buildings he owns.