Muslims Could Prove Crucial in Election
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With more than 1,200 Muslims and Arab-Americans taken into custody after the Sept. 11 attacks, and a U.S.-led war raging in Iraq, many Muslims oppose George Bush in the November presidential election. But their voting for John Kerry is not a slam-dunk, either.
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Voters in last year's presidential  election showed a new polarization within some religious  faiths, a fact that may make it all the harder for Democrats to  recapture the White House, according to a report released on  Thursday.
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The FBI has launched a new drive to  seek information from Muslim and Arab Americans to help thwart  any pre-election attack, a move some communities consider a  racist campaign which will not make America safer.
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U.S. officials hoping to stop a possible al Qaeda attack before the November election face the difficult task of providing enough security without scaring voters away from the polling stations.
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The post-Arafat era will be the latest test of a quintessentially American article of faith: that elections provide legitimacy even to the frailest institutions.
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JAKARTA - Indonesians have begun voting in a historic presidential ballot. It will mark the first direct election of a president in the world&#39;s largest Muslim nation.
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A key factor in determining the legitimacy of elections is the participation of the minority Sunni population.
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Pakistanis will brave the risk of bomb attacks to vote in an election on Monday that could return a parliament set on driving U.S. ally President Pervez Musharraf out of power.
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Some say Mustafa Barghouthi's campaign may lead to the creation of a viable secular opposition in Palestinian politics.
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A better-integrated Muslim population would better serve the United States as it navigates critical domestic and foreign-policy challenges involving Muslim populations, a new report argues.
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For the first time in 41 years, Saudi Arabia is allowing local elections. The ruling family's goal, political analysts and diplomats say, is to determine whether a more open government might help defuse a rising armed threat by Muslim  militants in the kingdom.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Top Shi'ite clerics, emboldened by what they perceive as a massive turnout by their followers for the coalition of Shi'ite religious parties, have already directed their attention to advocating for an Islamic constitution, several of them said in the aftermath of Sunday's election.
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U.S. officials hoping to stop a  possible al Qaeda attack before the November election face the  difficult task of providing enough security without scaring  voters away from the polling stations.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Pakistani voters are expected to succeed where President Pervez Musharraf has failed, pushing back the Islamist tide and throwing out of power political clerics governing Pakistan's violent northwest.
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The people of Najaf, the symbolic heart of Shiite Islam, came out in force to vote in Sunday's election.
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The Bush administration is considering reserving a few high-level posts in the next Iraqi government for Sunni Muslims, regardless of how well they fare in next month&#39;s elections, for fear that their exclusion could prolong the country&#39;s military and
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As the U.S. wrestles with questions of terrorism and immigration control, Muslims appear to be moving here again in surprising numbers.