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July 2014

July 06, 2014

Ramadan 2014 – Is Ramadan Morphing into A Meaningless Holiday Season?

This article comes on Day Nine of our special Altmuslim/Patheos Muslim Ramadan #30Days30Writers blog project,...

May 2011

May 11, 2011

Mayor Omar Ahmad (1964-2011): Serving the public while riding a Segway

Omar Ahmad, a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and the hardworking mayor of San Carlos, CA...

October 2010

October 29, 2010

Profiling: Going in “Muslim garb” for Halloween

The only thing scarier than meeting someone in "Muslim garb" at an airport is the...

September 2010

September 13, 2010

30 Mosques in 30 Days project: “We’re not historians, but these stories are important”

Two young Muslim Americans decide to sample the diversity of the Muslim American community during...

December 2009

December 23, 2009

Muslim Americans: Confronting radicalization online

The best possible antidote to extremist thought online is to propagate a compelling Muslim American...

November 2009

November 09, 2009

Biopics: The pitfalls of filming Muhammad

Unfortunately, the Matrix producer Barrie Osborne's planned biopic on the life of the Prophet Muhammad...

August 2009

August 26, 2009

The Zeitoun family: “I never dreamed that someone would write a book about (our) experiences”

Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun, subjects of Dave Eggers' new book Zeitoun, speak about Hurricane Katrina...

July 2009

July 08, 2009

Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith: “It’s not about the American flag being waved everywhere”

For the first time, the Department of State, under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has...

June 2009

June 19, 2009

Filmmaker Jennifer Taylor: “There are so many things that surprised me”

Filmmaker Jennifer Taylor gives some insight into the people at the heart of her documentary...

June 17, 2009

Movie "The Mosque in Morgantown": Pushing the envelope without breaking it

Asra Nomani, deserves credit for bringing light to the issue of gender inequity in American...

May 2009

May 04, 2009

Author Reza Aslan: “We are fighting a war of the imagination”

For much of the past decade we have been fighting a "cosmic war" under the...

November 2008

November 09, 2008

Assalamu Aleikum, Mr. President: The third time’s a charm

As everyday Muslim-Americans take their political destiny into their own hands, they find a degree...

October 2008

October 03, 2008

Comedian Azhar Usman: Allah made him funny

We speak to Muslim comedian Azhar Usman, whose concert film with fellow comedians Preacher Moss...

September 2008

September 04, 2008

Author Sherry Jones: “I did all this in the service of a truth”

Jewel of Medina author Sherry Jones speaks to us about her book, a semi-fictional novel...

August 2008

August 07, 2008

Perspectives: Free speech is a two-way street

Some of the more abrasive encounters between Muslims and others have not centered around politics...

March 2008

March 18, 2008

US Elections: Blocking the vote

Block vote proponents are faced with two bad choices: either tell Muslims to abandon the...

December 2007

December 27, 2007

Eid al-Adha: Is there room at the inn for a Muslim holiday in America?

I know it can be hard for people to share their most "religious" holidays with...

November 2007

November 12, 2007

Public diplomacy: Karen, we hardly knew ye

Karen Hughes' public diplomacy administration was certainly better than her "brand America" predecessors. Too bad...

September 2007

September 04, 2007

44th ISNA Conference: Ready for a close-up

Though the Islamic Society of North America still attracts accusations of extremism from some on...

August 2007

August 12, 2007

The Nation of Islam: The final call?

With the stepping down of Louis Farrakhan and the stepped-up pressure of WD Muhammad, the...

July 2007

July 29, 2007

Opposing terrorism: What would marches against extremism achieve?

If Muslim-Americans were able to pull off a grand protest, would it curtail the rise...

May 2007

May 16, 2007

Preventing homegrown terror: Seeing eye to eye on extremism

American Muslims and the US government are often on opposing sides when it comes to...

April 2007

April 17, 2007

Musician Kareem Salama: “There’s something reverent about country music”

For Oklahoma native Kareem Salama, the Islamically-inspired country music he creates is no novelty. We...

April 09, 2007

Muslim journalism: Western Muslims need a “fourth estate”

We started altmuslim.com because we could no longer tolerate the absence of an independent Muslim...

March 2007

March 21, 2007

Promoting civic involvement: Introducing unitedmuslims.org

With the launch of our new sister site unitedmuslims.org, we hope to broaden the base...

December 2006

December 20, 2006

Muslims in India: The new “untouchables”?

India's Muslim population, once thought to be relatively integrated, has been found in a recent...

December 07, 2006

Talk show host Dennis Praeger: The extremists among us

Which is the extremist threat in America? The Muslim American bogeyman that everyone talks about...

September 2006

September 14, 2006

US Elections: The lessons of Keith Ellison

There are Muslim leaders, and then there are leaders who happen to be Muslim. In...

September 11, 2006

9/11 Anniversary: Still caught between two hells

Sometimes it seems like the average Muslim American, caught between the extremists on both sides,...

August 2005

August 31, 2005

Muslims in Prison: Rehabilitating Islam’s prison image

The Islam that I encountered in prison several years ago was very different than what...