Forgiveness is in the air. Three days after Dylann Storm Roof allegedly gunned down Sharonda Coleman-Singleton at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, her son forgave him: “We already forgive him for
At a time of international turmoil and racial tensions, American Muslims were preparing to hold their annual convention in Chicago on Labor Day weekend. The 52nd Annual Convention of the Islamic
Imam Mohamed Magid, the chief imam at the third-largest mosque in America, has counseled several teens who sought to join ISIS in its effort to establish a caliphate across Iraq and
Washington, D.C.’s transit authority has squashed Pamela Geller’s dream of plastering a controversial image of Muhammad all over Washington-area Metro stations and buses. According to news reports, Geller’s organization, the American Freedom
They came from as far away as New York, Texas and Virginia on Sunday to celebrate the opening of a new mosque in Fort Wayne, Masjid Noor ul-Islam. More than
Catholic church leaders and scholars are not the only ones praising the 50-year-old church document Nostra Aetate (“In Our Time”), the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on relations with non-Christian religions. During the first
When Muslim leaders in the Dallas area learned in February that a provocative blogger had rented space to exhibit caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, they decided to ignore her.They were
If you had told me, five or 10 years ago, that in the near future I’d find myself standing among an all-female Muslim congregation in a former synagogue-turned-multifaith space in East Los
This year again the History Gallery will be on display at the 52nd ISNA Annual Convention over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago. There will be photographs and documents related to
(Plainfield, IN 4/14/15) Over the past weekend, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) hosted meetings for its executive council and board (Majlis Ash-Shura) at ISNA Headquarters in Plainfield, Indiana. The
