Faisal Shahzad sought to massacre scores of fellow Americans in Times Square with a bomb made of M-88 firecrackers, non-explosive fertilizer, gasoline and alarm clocks. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a U.S. airliner over Detroit with a firebomb concealed in his underpants. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot dead 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood and wounded 29. Why …

  The Kansas City Star W henever there has been a crisis in the world, from 9/11 to events in the Middle East, no one group in the metro area has been able to speak for the local Muslim community. The newly formed Midland Islamic Council wants to change that. And it also has other ambitious goals, such as unifying …

Facebook is now sharing your personal profile information with third parties. For now, it's just a few web sites, like the music site Pandora, and the consumer review site, Yelp. Facebook is automatically sharing that information, without your consent. If you don't want to share, you have to opt out. University of Minnesota law professor and privacy expert Bill McGevern …

Shahid Buttar defines civic engagement and political activism as his life's purpose. He was in law school at Stanford and on his way to becoming an anti-trust lawyer until September 11 when the trajectory of his life changed dramatically. Now the executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Buttar sees his role as a leader in the Muslim …

Organised hypocrisy is relatively a new concept that is being studied by sociologists and political scientists. Nowhere is organised hypocrisy more visible than in international relations where states blatantly violate the very norms that they claim to be following in conformity with civilized behaviour. Sociologists and political scientists are never short of examples to prove that organised hypocrisy exists and …

Moved by the miserable plight of Afghan girls Hollywood super star Angelina Jolie has set up a separate school, at a cost of US dollar 75,000,to accommodate as many as 800 students. The question which put to shame the worldwide 1.6 billion Muslims is where are the so-called Muslim millionaires and billionaires and what have they done to alleviate the …