Muslim Issues

Roger Stockham Arrested With Explosives Outside Major U.S. Mosque A 63-year-old Southern California man who had explosives in his vehicle was arrested outside one of the nation’s largest mosques in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, authorities in Michigan said. Dearborn police said Roger Stockham was arraigned Wednesday on one count of making a false report or threat of terrorism and one …

  "Peace is not a process. It is a state of being. You either have it or not. The Palestinians have not had peace since 1949. They have been under siege." That is how Trevor Purvis, Carleton University professor of international law summed up the situation of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and in Israel itself. He was speaking …

  US Administrations have been blighted since 9/11 by a deadly cocktail of arrogance and ignorance with a twist of the strong desire for revenge. But before you take aim and fire you have to know your enemy, and the scattergun policies of the Bush and now the Obama regimes have served only to create hatred and mistrust against the …

If more and more Arabs breach the wall of fear that has prevented them for decades from demanding their rights, expressing their rage at the corruption and repression of their governments and at regime impotence in the face of Israel’s arrogance of power, there’s one question above all others America’s policy makers will have to ask themselves.Who do we need most …

• Mubarak: 'If I resign today there will be chaos' • 10 dead and hundreds injured in fresh crackdown • Protesters have dubbed today 'departure Friday' Protesters carry away an injured companion in Tahrir square in Cairo. Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA The Obama administration is working on a plan in which the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, would stand down immediately in spite …