9/11
Giving while Muslim: How Ramadan philanthropy has changed from 9/11 to COVID-19
By Muhi Khwaja — May 5, 2021
(RNS) — Twenty years after 9/11, American Muslims’ giving priorities have shifted to funding civil rights and social justice movements at home.
Why President Biden is right to get our troops out of Afghanistan
By Thomas Reese — April 23, 2021
(RNS) — A fundamental principle of the just war theory is that you should not fight an unwinnable war.
Work resumes on church destroyed on 9/11
By Karen Matthews — August 3, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — After a three year halt due to financial problems, work resumed Monday on a Greek Orthodox church being built to replace one destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Valarie Kaur: ‘Revolutionary love is showing up in the labor for justice’
By Simran Jeet Singh — June 30, 2020
(RNS) — The filmmaker, lawyer and civil rights activist talks about her debut book, ‘See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love.’
‘Muslims in my house’: A tribute to a beloved centenarian
By Afeefa Syeed — January 8, 2020
(RNS) — A small-town hero, she said yes to our fledgling Islamic school during a time of uncertainty for Muslims, delving deep into what it means to be American.
An American Muslim imam’s letter to the American Sikh community
By Omar Suleiman — October 22, 2019
(RNS) — Despite the real harm Islamophobia has caused Sikhs, they have consistently refused to throw the Muslim community under the bus by simply distancing themselves from Islam.
9/11, my eternal classroom
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 11, 2019
The young women at Starbucks. The woman with the dusty windows....the stories that are part of my own personal Torah scroll.
9/11 timeline project traces ‘underlying Islamophobia’ in war on terror
By Aysha Khan — September 10, 2019
(RNS) — The visual timeline of post-9/11 policies and programs highlights the 'underlying Islamophobia' linking nearly two decades of torture, immigration crackdowns, surveillance overreaches and more.
Religion in the classroom: Where the faithful and the ACLU can agree
By Stephen Mansfield — June 7, 2019
(RNS) — A Pew poll from 2010 found that a majority of Americans cannot name the first book of the Bible but can provide the names of the four Beatles.
How remembering the dead has evolved from graveside eulogy to farewell address
By Yonat Shimron — May 24, 2019
(RNS) — 'A great eulogy cannot beat back death, but it can give new meaning to life and this moment,' says Cyrus M. Copeland, who has written three books on the subject.
World’s oldest marathoner, at 108, is a model of more than simply stamina
By Simran Jeet Singh — April 22, 2019
(RNS) — The 108-year-old's record-breaking running career traverses key issues like classism, racism, literacy bias, ableism and ageism.
How 9/11 spurred New Jersey’s Sikh attorney general into public service
By Simran Jeet Singh — March 8, 2019
(RNS) — New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal's faith is not the primary driver of his work as attorney general; its core teachings of service, justice and kindness are, and they align well with his progressive approach to policy.
Seventeen years after 9/11, Muslims are still ‘presumed guilty’
By Aysha Khan — September 10, 2018
(RNS) — Todd Green, the author of a new book on Islamophobia, says that if we’re still asking Muslims to condemn terrorism despite repeated disavowals, the trouble lies not with Muslims, but with the American majority.
Travel ban decision follows the Supremes’ record of racial classification
By Hussein Rashid — June 27, 2018
(RNS) — The high court’s ruling Tuesday is not surprising. When it comes to welcoming people to America, the court almost never acts for the rights promised in the U.S. Constitution without first denying them.
Islam scholar Bernard Lewis’ legacy of disdain for Muslims
By Hussein Rashid — May 29, 2018
(RNS) — Lewis understood Muslims as violent by nature, irrational, abusive toward women, lacking in culture. He could not conceive of Muslims in the context of modernity.
