Nahid K. grew up in Iran, where 90 percent of the population is Muslim. Her parents, however, were not very religious. When she was 25, Nahid converted from Muslim to Catholicism, something that is very rare, especially because the Islamic law condemns conversion. According to Dr. Konden Smith, a lecturer of religious studies at…
A man going under the alias Brian sits behind his computer as he anonymously posts “I’m going to kill every last … Muslim & Jew on the entire planet,” to his website bombislam.com. White supremacists and hate groups alike are now using the Internet as a forum to post their ideologies with like-minded people. And…
Tucsonan Hashem Khazdooz is Muslim. He does not have a beard and he is not a terrorist. “A terrorist is anyone who kills innocent people regardless of their religion, race, gender or beliefs,” said Khazdooz. “Those terrorists are not humans, they are animals.” A great majority of Muslims in most countries say that suicide bombing and…
It was a bad morning for Samantha Noyes. The stakes were high and her nerves were shot – the start of fifth grade was serious business. As she ran around her house collecting pencils and notebooks, the veil she clenched in her…
