Muslim Issues

  *Most independent studies exonerated Muslims of any role: * Demonization of Islam and Muslims continues:   In the US, and indeed in much of the western world, the attacks of 9/11 have been declared as the most catastrophic event ever to occur in history. The attacks being dramatic is not in doubt; what is less well established is the …

THE London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defence experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia and India. I’ve been an IISS member for over 20 years. IISS’s reports are always authoritative but usually …

 The horrible era of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States yielded a one-day silly season on Thursday, covered wall-to-wall by the US cable news channels. The weird cultist Terry Jones, fired from his church in Cologne, Germany last year for abusing his congregants, preaching hate-filled sermons, and demanding absolute obedience, was favored by an unprecedented telephone call from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates …

Special to The Seattle Times Freedom of religion was one of the principles upon which our great country was founded, and we are admired the world over as a free, tolerant and literate people. We are proud of the fact that many U.S. citizens struggled to come here in order to freely practice their religions. This freedom and the diversity …

Clearly the spiritual disease of Islamophobia is all too prevalent in our society, spread by the malicious politics of such people as Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin and such supposed pundits as Cal Thomas, whose Aug. 18 commentary in The Day, "Ground zero sum game," is but yet his most recent endeavor to spread this disease. While I could offer …