Major Hasan, now paralyzed, will have his first court hearing from his hospital room this weekend. It will determine whether to place him in jail or leave him in the hospital pre-trial. A democratic senator also claims there may be additional emails between Hasan and radical imam Anwar Al-Awlaki that were intercepted by the government….
In this article Irshad Manji points to how Americans are posing questions about the Fort Hood shootings, demonstrating that they are far from rushing to judgment. If an alleged criminal merely happens to be a Muslim, then religion may well be immaterial. But if his crime is committed in the name of Islam, then religion…
Security expert Shannon Rossmiller, who helped conduct a study that would recognize the signs of extremism amongst US troops, says the Department of Defense failed to use it and thus may have contributed to the loss at Fort Hood. There is also concern that the US has not learned as much as it could have…
Herman Van Rompuy has become the first president of Europe. Mr. Rompuy is a hard-line opponent of Turkey’s bid to join the European Union because it is an Islamic country. Van Rompuy, Belgium’s Prime Minister and a Christian Democrat, has in the past spoken out against Turkish EU membership because, he warned, it would dilute…
A new division opened in the State Department this year: the office of the Special Representative to Muslim Communities. Farah Pandith’s mission is to reach out to the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims. She tells Steve Inskeep the office will influence how Muslims perceive the United States.
