Truth, Islam(ophobia) And The American Way. Again. (5-31-11)
Apparently, it bears repeating.

Pakistan: Christian girls kidnapped, forced to marry, convert to Islam (5-30)
Two Christian girls--Rebecca Masih and Saima Masih--were forced to marry and convert to Islam after they were kidnapped by a wealthy businessman on May 24.

‘Jesus: Prophet of Islam’ Irks Christians (5-30)
Billboards promoting that Jesus is one of the prophets who Muslims believe in are causing uproar in Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday, May 30.

Osama and Islam (5-28)
It's a bit late to write about Osama Bin Laden's death, which happened on May 2.

Imam teaches Islam with a distinct U.S. style (5-27)
Oklahoma-born convert Suhaib Webb, who sprinkles public addresses with pop culture references, has a growing following, especially among young Muslims. Traditionalists are leery.

The Truth about Islam and Book-Burning (5-25)
The burning of books is an uncivil and distasteful act no matter where and under what circumstances.

Netanyahu: Militant Islam threatening the world (5-24)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is telling Congress that militant Islam is threatening the world.

Dutch court pushes ahead with hate speech trial (5-23)
Dutch appeals judges on Monday ordered the continuation of anti-Islam lawmaker's Geert Wilders' hate speech trial, rejecting his claim that the court trying him was biased.

Australia/Islam: Australia denies Muslim request for sharia law (5-21)
The Australian government has rejected a call from a leading Muslim group for the introduction of a non-extremist version of sharia law.

Gaza group rejects U.S. terror classification decision (5-20)
A Gaza-based extremist group on Friday rejected a recent U.S. decision that labeled it a foreign terrorist group.

After Bin Laden: has militant Islam failed? (5-19)
Among the dozens of tweets that I received from fellow Turks following the breaking news of Osama Bin Laden's death, one was a bit uncommon.

Commentary: For Islamic radicals, times are tough (5-18)
Osama bin Laden is dead. The Middle East is in chaos. And radical Islam is floundering.

Egypt: Dialogue emerges over forced conversion to Islam (5-17)
The Freedom and Justice party, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, has appointed its Vice-President, the Coptic Rafiq Habib. Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, an intellectual close to the Muslim Brotherhood, who did not join the Freedom and Justice party and presents himself as an independent candidate in the upcoming presidential election, stressed the right to freedom of conscience and condemned  forced conversions to Islam.

Zuhdi Jasser interview: The key is separation of mosque and state (5-16)
In the second half of our interview, Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum on Democracy and Save Syria Now!’s most prominent American of Syrian descent, talks about the battle against Islamic extremism, the toxic co-dependency between Muslim victim-mongers, the theological debate within the American Muslim community, and the effort to promote pluralism and constitutional values among Muslim youth.

An Ill Season (5-14)
The Arab spring unleashes Islamists on Egyptian Christians.

Graffiti is illegal; anti-Islam remarks are not (5-13)
Just as patriotism was renewed while Americans mourned on 9/11, it flourishes again less than 10 years later as we celebrate the long-awaited justice finally served by Osama bin Laden's death.

To fight the xenophobic populists, we need more free speech, not less (5-12)
Geert Wilders should not be on trial for his words on Islam. But mainstream politicians must confront and not appease him

Muslim Mob Kills 12 Christians in Attack on Church in Egypt (5-11)
Essam Sharaf, Egypt's prime minister since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak on March 3, 2011, convened an emergency cabinet meeting after 12 people were killed in Cairo when deadly violence broke out between Muslims and Christians over the alleged conversion of a Christian woman to Islam.

What role will Islam play in the new Egypt? (5-10)
The recent wave of sectarian violence Saturday night which claimed a dozen lives and left hundred wounded made my heart ache in a country where Christians and Muslims have lived together in peace for centuries.

Anti-sharia measure under attack in the courts (5-10)
The first anti-sharia law to pass in the nation, a ballot measure in Oklahoma that bars courts from considering Islamic law, creates "harmful, real-world consequences" and "tramples the free exercise rights of a disfavored minority faith," the American Civil Liberties Union charges in a new brief challenging the law.

Man sentenced to 28 years for plotting to bomb federal courthouse (5-9) 
An Illinois man who tried to blow up the federal courthouse in Springfield two years ago was sentenced Monday to 28 years in prison, the Justice Department announced.

Egypt riots raise worries over Islamic hard-liners (5-9)
The escalation of a household drama into a national crisis reflected the stormy politics shaking Egypt at a fragile time, with the ruling military trying to navigate a transition to democracy following the Feb. 11 fall of Mubarak.

Normative Islam and Osama (5-6)
There’s so much interesting journalism happening in the aftermath of the Osama bin Laden killing.

Radical Islam at UC Berkeley Law (5-5)
The exploitation of the University of California's law schools as platforms for Arab and Islamist propaganda continues. A convocation on "Litigating Palestine," replete with extreme rhetoric against Israel, was held at the university's San Francisco-based Hastings Law School on March 25-26, 2011-- without official endorsement by Hastings -- and on April 20-21, an equally radical conference took place at UC Berkeley Law School.

Islam: Bin Laden "killed" by the Jasmine Revolution (5-4)
Support for the terrorist leader and al Qaeda was already at its lowest point in recent years, even in Pakistan.

Police: Minnesota man kills stepdaughter in Michigan over dispute she wasn't following Islam (5-3)
Authorities say a Minnesota man killed his 20-year-old stepdaughter in Michigan because she left home and wasn't following Islam.

Osama Bin Laden Burial Breaks With Islamic Tradition, Say Scholars (5-2)
Osama bin Laden did not receive a customary Islamic burial, despite what U.S. government officials reported, according to experts in Muslim funeral rites.

Osama's Islam-violence link weighs heavy on Muslims (5-2)
* Bin Laden linked Islam and violence * Peaceful Muslims struggle to shake off suspicions