Islam

9/11 is different this year, and not

Sheila Liaugminas | 11 September 2010

Each September 11th since 2001 has had its own climate in which we remember the horror of that day, and we all deal with it in our own way, publicly or privately. But on this anniversary, we’re caught in a confluence of events that expose our collective raw nerves.

One God

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 January 2010

Four churches in and around Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia have been firebombed in the continued reaction to a court ruling that Christians may use the word “Allah.”

What new textbooks will teach our children

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 December 2009

About Islam and its role in history and modern civilization.

A million acts of kindness…untold?

Sheila Liaugminas | 01 December 2009

Here’s the walkup to Thomas Friedman’s incisive piece in the New York Times about what Maj. Hasan may have been thinking at Ft. Hood.

A favoured religion

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 November 2009

A newly appointed federal judge President Obama named to the Seventh Circuit isn’t getting much media scrutiny for a controversial ruling he made that, effectively, makes prayers to Allah politically correct and perfectly acceptable in the public square, but not prayers invoking the name of Jesus Christ.

Are we getting too ‘touchy-feely’?

Sheila Liaugminas | 14 November 2009

There was no reason not to grant Maj. Nidal M. Hasan’s pressing requests to be released from the Army.