Rarely has a day gone by in the past few years where I haven't been told by someone that the Constitution of the United States of America is absolute, or that true freedom is defined in some fashion as the government not regulating our lives or our choices in any way, shape, or  …

Last week, legislators in Tennessee introduced a radical bill that would make "material support" for Islamic law punishable by 15 years in prison. The proposal marks a dramatic new step in the conservative campaign against Muslim-Americans.

In March, the House of Representatives will begin hearings on preventing domestic terrorist attacks. Rep.

"A University of Colorado student who started wearing hijab after converting to Islam is fighting the Boulder County Jail's insistence that she remove her headscarf for a booking photo, saying that to do so would violate her religious beliefs.

A Muslim woman was banned from entering a roller-skating rink because her headscarf breached the 'no hoods' rule. Marisol Rodriguez-Colon, 40, was 'mortified' when she turned up to the Ron-A-Roll rink in Vernon, Connecticut only to be refused entry. When she asked why,  …

A Saudi Arabian court sentenced a man to five years in prison and 500 lashes for having sexual relations with another man, Jeddah-based Okaz reported.

Turkey's ruling party is trying to create an official form of Alevism that can be subsumed into its Sunni-led Directorate of Religious Affairs while delegitimizing all other forms of the faith, an Alevi labor union leader says.

""I tried to prevent (being touched) with my hands but Mrs. Michelle held her hands too far toward me (so) we touched," Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring told tens of thousands of followers on Twitter.

In many ways, State Question 755 will likely have little impact either in Oklahoma or elsewhere -- Muslims quickly point out they never lobbied for shariah law, and many wouldn't support its use anyway.

Defense lawyers now say Tyler Clementi's bullying wasn't as bad as it seemed — but the invasion of his privacy was still a standout in a year that's been rife with bullying incidents. After the jump, a timeline.

After issuing the veil ban on Sunday, which bars the full-face niqab veil from both public and private universities, Syria is now heading into waters that have proved difficult for Egypt. Courts there struck down similar bans.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 13 (CDN) — Islamic organizations have mounted a campaign against the planned construction of Mother Teresa Catholic Church in West Java Province, where Christian leaders report 20 other churches have faced Muslim hostility since 2009.

If someone was getting beat for wearing a rainbow necklace, would you walk on by feeling they deserved it because they must be gay? If a student was getting their books knocked out of their hands because they were carrying a Qur'an, would you laugh?

Since much of sharia law is contrary to British law and public policy, in theory they would be unlikely to be upheld in a British court.

Molly Norris, the writer who called for a world draw Muhammad day, is not a here, not admirable, not fighting a good fight. She did something stupid and for no rational reason in willfully insulting 1.2 billion people. She has even admitted she was wrong.

While discussing a significant event here in the United States with a friend of mine, we discovered that another friend, Robert, has a life story that truly speaks volumes to that event.

Tensions between Denmark and the Muslim world could be reignited as the man who approved the controversial Mohammed newspaper cartoons prepares to publish a book

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.

There is a book that has inspired people to kill others, causing grief, panic, and sorrow for millions upon millions of people. A book that has changed the lives of others, and has ended the lives of others still. I'm sure you know the book I'm talking about, too.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning was subjected to a mock execution by hanging. In preparation for her death, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison.

It came as no surprise when I learned this morning that the mosque protests in New York City have assisted terrorists in their recruiting efforts.

An AP writer has a provocative thesis: the availability of porn in Iraq mirrors the level of freedom and security there. Is he right? And what would that look like?

Many of the tropes of classic anti-Semitism have been revived and given new force on the American right.

If you've only left ten comments on Newsvine in the past few weeks, there's a strong chance that at least one of them was directly related to the Mosque being built near ground zero in New York City.

Protesters have recently been rallying against a proposed Islamic educational center containing a mosque near Ground Zero, claiming that the proximity of anything Muslim to Ground Zero would contaminate a hallowed place.

Earlier Thursday, one of Ashtiani's lawyers told the International Committee Against Stoning that Iranian authorities have decided to go forward with Ashtiani's execution. The lawyer told the group that no more appeals will be allowed.

On September 11th of 2001, religious zealots attacked The United States. In those attacks, friends and acquaintances of mine were viciously murdered. It is in their memory, speaking on their behalf, that I write this article. I knew these people well.

Now these Muslim feminists have had enough. Hoping to reform Islam by making it more women-friendly, Ms. Thompson—an American convert to Islam—has organized several "pray-ins" at mosques in the D.C. area.

A popular Saudi cleric said Saturday it is permissible for Muslim women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned to avoid harassment, while deploring the effort to outlaw the garment in France.

Long story short: It's starting to become clear that some conservative groups think that if Muslims are able to worship on American soil, the terrorists have won.

As expected, the French Assembly has indeed voted in favor of banning the full facial veil in public spaces; the measure extends to both burqas and niqabs. The bill is expected to be ratified by the Senate in September.

In a shocking incident, some unknown assailants chopped off a Christian professor's hand in the south Indian city of Kerala on Sunday morning.

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, convicted of adultery in Iran, may be stoned to death unless a last-minute campaign saves her.

Shoaib Choudhury, a Muslim Zionist in Bangladesh, told IsraelNationalRadio's Yishai Fleisher last week, "Political Islam and hate speech are our biggest enemies."

KATHERINE KERSTEN, MINNEAPOLIS: That`s correct. Well, here, since 2001, we have had 5,000 instances of Muslim cab drivers at the Minneapolis- St. Paul Airport refusing to transport passengers carrying alcohol.

Sakineh A@!$%#ani has been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran.

She decided to attend some of the MSU's events that week and was exposed to their violent intimidation tactics at the conclusion of another Malik-Ali speech.

So the U.S. Army Psychiatrist, who is also a Muslim and shouted "God Is Great" in Arabic as he murdered 11 people on a United States Military Base, not to mention the injured. Some multiple survivors of Iraq & Afghanistan, mudered in their own country by one of their own.

A Facebook Page and group which were called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" have been pulled from Facebook following protests, and the eventual banning of Facebook in Pakistan.

Armenian Genocide day commemorates the 24 April 1915 commencement of the Turkish Armenian Genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians were systematically murdered by the Turks in the period 1915-1923.

Indoctrination to genocidal anti-Semitism is epidemic among Palestinians and in Arab and other Muslim states.

JERUSALEM — Palestinian political activists from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Sunday condemned a camp youth orchestra's performance for Holocaust survivors in Israel last week, and said they were banning the orchestra's director, an Israeli Arab woman …