Countering Threats Abroad, and at Home

The calls by a Florida pastor to burn the Quran, coupled with the controversy over a planned Muslim community center near Ground Zero, pose risks that the United States will be increasingly viewed worldwide as a setting for anti-Muslim sentiment.

How to contain radical Islam

THE EVENTS OF Sept. 11, 2001, brutally announced the presence of an enemy seemingly distinct from any our country had faced before. Unlike previous adversaries, such as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Spanish monarchy, this new enemy was difficult to define, let alone understand. It was not motivated by causes that an avowedly secular government could easily comprehend, and ... Nazi Germany ...

Donald Trump makes bid for proposed mosque building

How do you say "Let's Make a Deal" in Arabic? New York real estate mogul Donald Trump today offered to buy the proposed site of a mosque near Ground Zero, seeking to end what has become a nationwide controversy. Trump's all-cash offer of more than $6 million, if...

Protests Against Quran Burning Threats Sweep Afghanistan

Thousands demonstrate against American pastor's threat to burn copies of Islamic holy book

Quran burning controversy brings local religious leaders together

"I don't call it freedom of speech, I call it freedom of stupidity, everyone is free to be stupid, he's exercising that kind of freedom to the max,” stated AlDarsani during a heated conversation.