In his recent article, Sam Harris, a popular critic of Islam, referred to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist, as “the best thing to come
FACT 1: Islam is a religion of over 1.6 billion people. Islam is not ISIS or Islamic State. FACT 2: Police said, the gunman had
There have been Muslims involved in terrorism … but they’ve also spoken out against it. From September 11, 2001, until the end of 2014, 109
… but they’re not as dogmatic as they are portrayed Much has been made about fundamentalist Muslims and their strict interpretation of the Quran. But
They’re as religious as Christians …The general perception of Muslims has one thing right: Most Muslims are very religious. About half say they attend the
… and they’re not just clustered in big cities American Muslims live in cities big and small all across the United States. The first mosque
Early reports indicated that the man shot by police in Paris Thursday yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he carried a knife and wore a fake suicide
There were 3.3 million Muslims of all ages living in the United States in 2015, or about 1 percent of the total U.S. population, the
They’ve been here since the birth of the nation … Scholars estimate about a quarter to a third of the Africans brought to the United
They have more gender equality While in many parts of the Muslim world, women are confined to second-class status, that’s not the case among American
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