It was a hot August day in Detroit. I was standing on a street corner downtown, looking at the front page of The Detroit News in a news rack. I remember a streetcar rattling by on the tracks as I read the headline: A single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city. My first thought was that I knew exactly …

The fourth pillar of Islam is fasting. Allah prescribes daily fasting for all able, adult Muslims during the whole of the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the lunar calendar, beginning with the sighting of the new moon. Exempted from the fast are the very old and the insane. On the physical side, fasting is from first light of …

In what is largely seen as a sham election, Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul and a few other areas where United States and NATO troops are in control, went to the polls yesterday to elect a president. Though the West tries to portray the election as a healthy sign of Afghanistan’s fledgling democracy, independent analysts say a majority of the Afghan …

‘Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’– George Santayana How quickly we forget. With the Inquisition still fresh in memory, America’s Founders embraced democracy as a means to protect liberty from the manipulations of faith. That’s why facts were enshrined at the core of self-governance grounded in the rule of law. The duplicity at the …

At only 13 years old, Farik Naik (the son of Dr. Zakir Naik) gives a lecture on the topic: “Similarities Between Islam & Christianity.” Some of Farik Naik’s achievements are: He is able to speak Arabic fluently, and has understood the entire Arabic language, he has memorized the whole Quran of by heart, he can easily read and understand the …

New York, New York – To hear Americans and Muslims talk about each other over the past years, you’d think the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world has been permanently belligerent. The violence and inflammatory polemics generated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan make it difficult to think otherwise. But if …