Political reactions

The Turkish prime minister's dismissal of anti-government protests as the work of opposition thugs fits a pattern of how many Islamist political leaders are responding to

British counterterrorism officers were investigating a suspicious fire today at a Somali community center in London, where graffiti spelling out the name of a far-right group

This week Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan decided the crisis at home did not merit cancelling a trip he had planned to North Africa. He left his deputy to look

The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed an Open Skies agreement that will "permit unrestricted air service by the airlines of both countries between and beyond the

Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan said twice this week that he waged the 2009 Fort Hood shooting massacre to defend "others" from his fellow soldiers. Those others, he said

"Kwak! Ouch! Please don’t kill me! Ah-h-h-h … oink?”

If a cartoonist wages an anti-jihad campaign featuring a piggish hero, but the New York Times, Rolling Stone and NBC fail to comment – did it actually happen? Bosch Fawstin

The controversies in Oklahoma and Alabama are just a glimpse of what the North American Islamic Trust is up to nationwide

Local residents are challenging proposals to expand Muslim Brotherhood-linked mosques in Oklahoma and Alabama. The mosques’ land is owned by the North American Islamic Trust

Western politicos love to shed swamps of crocodile tears about "the Syrian people" and congratulate themselves within the "Friends of Syria" framework for defending them from

The proliferation of "temporary marriages" shows how Muslims in Britain are using Islamic Sharia Law to establish parallel forms of marriage that are otherwise illegal

An increasing number of Muslims in Britain are reviving the Islamic practice of temporary marriage, according to a recent BBC television documentary focusing on the "taboo