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January 2017

January 27, 2017

UPDATE: CAIR Challenges Trump’s “Muslim Ban” Executive Order; Attorney General tells Justice Department to Stand Down

In response to the executive orders, the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced today that it...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Modest Muslim Fashion Show Caters to Mixed-Gender Audience

By Saideh Jamshidi Lee Mozena, director of Zena Consulting, organized a mixed-gender modest couture fashion show...

October 15, 2016

Three Men Arrested in Terrorist Plot on Somali Muslims in Kansas

By Altmuslim Editors Three members of a militia group, who call themselves "The Crusaders" have...

January 2014

January 01, 2014

Year in Review – Top Ten Good Muslim News Stories of 2013

By altmuslim contributors If there were two mantras that flooded the Muslim landscape in 2013,...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

How to Help in the Philippines

If you have been plugged into the grid in any way these past few days,...

October 2012

October 16, 2012

Presidential Debates – What to Watch for as Obama and Romney Tackle Foreign Policy

By Fawaz Gerges The debate tonight comes at an important time -- issues in the...

March 2012

March 09, 2012

ACTION ALERT: Follow Our Lead on March 9 – Five #FF Tweets to Say Thanks

By Zeba Iqbal Thank you all so much for joining in our #ThankYou campaign. It...

March 02, 2012

ACTION ALERT- Follow Our Lead on Friday And Say #Thank You @Twitter

By Zeba Iqbal Muslims and non-Muslims in New York City and across the country have...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Reflects on Oscar Win and What it Means for Pakistan

By Sadia Ashraf Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar Academy Award win for Pakistan last Sunday, a first...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Year in review: The top ten good news stories of 2011

Continuing our ten-year-old tradition, we take a look back at the news stories of 2011...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

Afghan women: Pawns of war and peace

Unless the international community recognizes its responsibility to fulfill its commitments to Afghan women, marginalization...

August 2011

August 26, 2011

CAP report on Islamophobia: Fighting the defamation of Muslim Americans

This report exposes these alleged “patriots” for what they really are: the primary motivators of...

July 2011

July 20, 2011

British Muslims: Contributing more than you might think

When British Muslims are able to work collaboratively on projects that benefit the larger community...

June 2011

June 01, 2011

Middle East: Palestine’s unity agreement is a golden opportunity for all

Much of the world has rightly welcomed a unity agreement between competing Palestinian factions Fatah...

May 2011

May 30, 2011

Islamic charities: Building donor confidence through transparency

Through appropriate planning and disclosure on behalf of organizations, and investigation and research on behalf...

May 15, 2011

Raid on bin Laden: The fictions we create

Conspiracies are constructed when the truth fails, when the narrative arc of reality does not...

May 02, 2011

Death of bin Laden: The 5 stages of Muslim-American emotion

A flood of emotion has come over all Americans in the wake of the demise...

April 2011

April 14, 2011

Quran burning: Burning the myths about Islam

The complete apathy of the 'Arab spring' in regards to the burning of a Quran...

April 06, 2011

Indonesia: Overcoming fears of radicalism in MENA

The prospect of an Islamist takeover of democratic elections in Egypt and Tunisia may not...

March 2011

March 24, 2011

Libya revolts: A convergence of interests and values

As Western military objectives align with Arab/Muslim public opinion in the case of Libya, there...

March 13, 2011

Bahrain protests: Victim vs. victim

Migrant workers and the Shia community comprise two victimised populations in Bahrain; a new system...

March 09, 2011

Arab uprisings: A woman leading change in Yemen

Amidst the protest movement in Yemen challenging the 30-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh...

March 07, 2011

Egypt protests: Was al-Qaeda’s obituary written in Tahrir Square?

As the wave of revolution continues to roll all across the Arab Middle East, the...

February 2011

February 04, 2011

The new Egypt: What role will the Brotherhood play?

Like it or not, Islamic political parties are part of the political fabric in many...

January 2011

January 30, 2011

The greatest alliance: Where’s the Arab world going, and can Israel come?

We need to get out of the mindset that sees religious Muslims as antithetical to...

January 26, 2011

Indonesia: More to religious (in)tolerance than meets the eye

Reports showing increases in the number of religiously motivated attacks and discrimination in Indonesia against...

January 24, 2011

Islamic art scholar Oleg Grabar: An underrated historian

Oleg Grabar, a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study who died on January...

January 21, 2011

Tunisia turmoil: Dare we hope for democracy?

The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon (2005), the Lawyers’ and Judges’ Mutiny in Pakistan (2007), The...

January 12, 2011

The Al-Rashid: Canada’s model mosque

Imagine a mosque that left gender segregation at its door, allowed women in leadership positions,...

January 07, 2011

Salman Taseer: Shot down for opposing the religious right

Few Pakistani politicians have had the courage to oppose blasphemy laws so openly and brazenly...