December 6, 2013 When William J. Bratton takes over as commissioner of the New York Police Department early next year, he will inherit the country’s most powerful local counterterrorism force, but one that has alienated the city’s large Muslim community. “We need to heal some of the wounds, reopen the communications and the partnership,”…
November 30, 2013 Federal officials say Americans are joining the bloody civil war in Syria, raising the chances they could become radicalized by al-Qaida-linked militant groups and return to the U.S. as battle-hardened security risks. The State Department says it has no estimates of how many Americans have taken up weapons to fight military…
December 5, 2013 The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) today announced the filing of a federal complaint against the United States by Irfan Khan, an American Muslim citizen, alleging false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Khan was arrested and imprisoned for 319 days and made to endure what he…
December 2, 2013 Across Europe, the general feeling is that integration of Muslim immigrants has failed and that multicultural policies are responsible for this failure. However, a closer look at data on integration of Muslims reveals a more nuanced reality, writes Jocelyne Cesari, Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Center of Georgetown University and…
