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Opinion: Getting Clear on Rep. King's Muslim Hearings

Rep. Peter King's congressional hearings Thursday on the radicalization of American Muslims reminds me of the TV commercial, "There's clear, then there's Claritin clear." My eyes are not itchy and my nose isn't running, but my mind is foggy about the true goals and objectives of these hearings. This is what I mean. The...

Calif. Mosque Mole Erodes Trust Between Muslims, FBI

(Dec. 6) -- When Farouk al-Aziz allegedly tried to incite members of a California mosque to blow up a mall, they reported him to the FBI, but nothing happened. Apparently, that's because al-Aziz was actually Craig Monteilh, a paid FBI informant and ex-convict sent to infiltrate the mosque and expose a potential terrorist....

What Would Bush Do About the Ground Zero Mosque?

WASHINGTON (Aug. 17) -- The political battle over plans to build an Islamic center two blocks from ground zero is reaching biblical proportions as Republicans pummel President Barack Obama and Democrats for being insensitive to victims of 9/11. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday compared the center -- which...

5 Americans Have al-Qaida Link, Pakistani Police Say

SARGODHA, Pakistan (Dec. 10) -- Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al-Qaida-linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, a Pakistani law enforcement official said Thursday. Another senior officer said the men...

american muslims News From the Web

08/03/11 American Muslims Stand Out as a Multicultural Market... Source: PRWeb New Brunswick, NJ (PRWEB) August 03, 2011 American Muslims are the most diverse religious group in America according to Magali Rheault, Senior Analyst, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies.

Background on american muslims

From the 1880s to 1914, several thousand Muslims immigrated to the United States from the Ottoman Empire, and from parts of South Asia; they did not form distinctive settlements, and probably mostly assimilated into the wider society.

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