More ethnic Turks are now moving out of Germany than in. As the German economy lags, a Western education helps professional Turkish Germans find work in a booming Muslim nation. But they aren’t always welcomed “home”. The first time Ömer Küçükbay felt homesick for Germany, he was lying on a cot in a military barracks…
Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of Somalia’s independence, but there is little to celebrate. Al-Shabab, which means The Youth, emerged from this bleak chaos in 2006. Human Rights Watch says Somalis living under Al-Shabab control are subjected to grinding repression. The impact of the conflict is felt in Canada, home to between 150,000 and 200,000…
Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who is known for his depiction of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a fuse, was attacked in his home January 1st by a Somali man armed with a knife and an axe. The 28 year old Somali man is now charged with the…
By EBOO PATEL The recent spate of high-profile news on Muslim-Americans can be summed up easily: horror and terror. The high-profile actions of the few are overshadowing a trend that is capturing the many: the emergence of an American Muslim civic identity, which is to say, how Islam inspires its followers to be better citizens…
