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What We’ve Learned Since 9/11
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![Mohammed el-Sioufi, vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, and his wife, Nagiba, are interviewed about the New York Police Department's surveillance of the Muslim community in Newark, New Jersey. (AP/Charles Dharapak)]()
What We’ve Learned Since 9/11
In order to make our world safer, we need to focus on factual evidence and real threats rather than target entire communities because of their ethnicity or religion.
Sharia and Foreign Law Bans in a State Near You?
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Sharia and Foreign Law Bans in a State Near You?
Legal Difficulties, Practical Problems
Not in Our Name: Understanding Youth Engagement in the Middle East and Around the World
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Not in Our Name: Understanding Youth Engagement in the Middle East and Around the World
Interview with Zeenat Rahman, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's special adviser for Global Youth Issues at the U.S. Department of State.
Attacks on Muslim American Houses of Worship on the Rise
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Attacks on Muslim American Houses of Worship on the Rise
Acts of violence against Muslim Americans and their houses of worship have increased, especially in the weeks since Ramadan began this year.
Anti-Islam Zealots Undermine American Values
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Anti-Islam Zealots Undermine American Values
Members of the Islamophobia network in the United States are behind the anti-Islam video that sparked the protests in the region and the deaths in Libya.
The 9/11 Generation
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![Smoke pours off one of the towers of the World Trade Center as flames explode from the second one as it is struck by a plane Tuesday, September 11, 2001. (AP/Chao Soi Cheong)]()
The 9/11 Generation
Eleni Towns examines how the Millennial generation was affected by 9/11.
Fear, Inc.
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Fear, Inc.
A look at the Islamophobia network that profoundly misrepresents Islam and American Muslims in the United States.
Combating Islamophobia in Florida
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Combating Islamophobia in Florida
Muhammed Malik talks to Eleni Towns about his recent success defeating Florida’s anti-immigrant racial profiling bill.
Understanding Sharia Law
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![Muslim Americans and supporters rally in the rotunda of the Illinois State Capitol during Illinois Muslim Action Day in Springfield, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP/Seth Perlman)]()
Understanding Sharia Law
Wajahat Ali and Matt Duss explain why Sharia, or Islamic religious law, is not the threat conservatives claim it is.
Setting the Record Straight on Sharia
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Setting the Record Straight on Sharia
Sally Steenland interviews Boston College Law School professor Intisar Rabb about what Sharia law is—and what it isn't.
Congressional Hearings May Inflame Islamophobia
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![According to Rep. Peter King, 80 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by radical imams—including the Long Island mosque in his district that he regularly used to visit. (AP/Harry Hamburg)]()
Congressional Hearings May Inflame Islamophobia
Scheduled House hearings on conservative charges of “radicalized Muslims” in Muslim-American mosques could inflame an already dangerous trend of Islamophobia in America.
Why Religious Education Matters
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![Muslims pray during Eid-al-Fitr to mark the end of the month of Ramadan on Red Road in Calcutta, India. A Pew poll released in August shows that 55 percent of Americans “do not know very much” about Islam while 25 percent “know nothing at all.” Despite this lack of knowledge 38 percent of Americans have an “unfavorable” view of Islam and 35 percent believe that Islam “is more likely to encourage violence than other [religions].” (AP/Bikas Das)]()
![Muslims pray during Eid-al-Fitr to mark the end of the month of Ramadan on Red Road in Calcutta, India. A Pew poll released in August shows that 55 percent of Americans “do not know very much” about Islam while 25 percent “know nothing at all.” Despite this lack of knowledge 38 percent of Americans have an “unfavorable” view of Islam and 35 percent believe that Islam “is more likely to encourage violence than other [religions].” (AP/Bikas Das)](https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/muslims_praying_onpage-1.jpg?w=610)
Why Religious Education Matters
Brian Thorn explains the problems a society faces when it lacks understanding of religions at home and abroad.