A team of five mostly 20-something Americans, led by esteemed Muslim scholar Akbar Ahmed, are crisscrossing the nation on an anthropological mission to discuss American identity, Muslim identity, and find out how well the US upholds its ideals in a post-September 11 world. “As a social scientist … as a Muslim, it was almost my…
According to a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post daily newspaper, the Canadian government has been using “counter-radicalization techniques” to steer Canadian Muslims from “extremism.” The measures described in the report range from meeting with community and religious leaders and urging them to tackle radicalization to the more controversial tactic of intervention by…
Lawyers for a Canadian youth found guilty of terrorism-related offenses argued that a police informant who infiltrated a home-grown terrorist cell broke the law. The youth in question is one of 18 men arrested in Toronto in 2006 in connection with an alleged plot to truck-bomb nuclear power plants and a building housing Canada’s spy…
According to a study published by the Panoptican Journal, Turkish immigrants were found to have more trust in police than the Flemish, while differences between Flemish and Moroccan immigrants were negligible. The study was carried out by researched from Hasselt University, who conducted the survey in the former mining towns of Henk and Houthalen-Helchteren, questioning…
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the FBI and local law enforcement to investigate a paintball attack on a mosque in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Officials at the Islamic Center of Maryland (ICM) said that up to 70 paintballs were shot at the facility on a recent early Saturday morning. “We urge both the…
