By 2050, the number of Muslims worldwide will grow by 70 percent, outpacing every other religion and matching Christianity as the world’s most numerous faith. That rate of growth means that by midcentury, one in 10 people in France, Germany, Italy and Britain will be Muslims. That’s according to a Pew Research Center study out […]
islam
Posted inOp-Eds
Fareed Zakaria: Let Arab world lead the fight against ISIS
AMMAN, Jordan — Washington is getting enthusiastic about an ideological war these days: not between Democrats and Republicans — that’s old news — but rather between Americans and radical Islam. Many of those who spent the past several weeks insisting that we label jihadi terrorists “Islamic” now urge that we fight them on the ideological […]
advertisement
Posted inOp-Eds
Fareed Zakaria: The limits of the ‘Islamic’ label
NEW YORK — President Obama stands accused of political correctness for his unwillingness to accuse groups such as the Islamic State of “Islamic extremism,” choosing a more generic term, “violent extremism.” His critics say you cannot fight an enemy that you will not name. Even his supporters feel that his approach is too “professorial.” But […]
Posted inMaine
Muslim who worked at Bath Iron Works files federal lawsuit claiming shipyard employees harassed and spat at him
BRUNSWICK — A former Bath Iron Works employee who says he was harassed, routinely spat at by other employees and subjected to hate speech over a number of years because he is of Palestinian descent and a Muslim has filed suit in U.S. District Court claiming the company violated his civil rights. The suit also […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Jodi Hayashida: A conversation worth having
I have begun to wonder how long we as a nation are going to waste our time on the pointless and destructive debate over whether or not Islam promotes violence. It isn’t possible to answer the question objectively. And it diverts our attention from the truly necessary conversations about how any of us learn to […]
Posted inLetters
C. Soule: Media bring trouble on themselves
I remember a few sayings I heard while growing up: “Don’t poke the bear,” “Never hit a bee’s hive with a stick,” “Never spit into the wind” and “When hunting, stay downwind.” It is tragic when others have to pay for the sins of a few who have tried to make a buck at the […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Austin Bay: The struggle to reform Islam continues
It is much easier to count the dead in Paris than in rural Nigeria. Islamist terrorists connected to al-Qaida or Islamic State (perhaps both) murdered 17 people in the modern, globally linked capital of France. Seventeen is a definite number. Last week, Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist terror movement, murdered several hundred people. Initial reports […]
Posted inOp-Eds
Fareed Zakaria: Blasphemy takes on a political agenda
NEW YORK — As they went on their rampage, the men who murdered 12 people in Paris this week yelled that they had “avenged the prophet.” They follow in the path of other terrorists who have bombed newspaper offices, stabbed a filmmaker, and killed writers and translators, all to mete out what they believe is […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 638
CAIRO (AP) — Weeping relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead in a Cairo mosque near the smoldering epicenter of support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi, as the death toll soared past 600 Thursday from Egypt’s deadliest day since the Arab Spring began. World condemnation widened for the […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
Egypt erupts with protests demanding Morsi ouster
CAIRO — Hundreds of thousands thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country Sunday and marched on the presidential palace, filling a broad avenue for blocks, in an attempt to force out the Islamist president with the most massive protests Egypt has seen in 2½ years of turmoil. In a sign of the […]