US Muslims take tougher line this election cycle
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The leaders of the US Muslim community said that they will announce whether they will endorse any political candidate for president this year, and if so whom, in mid-October.
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A baby step towards popular suffrage sees conservative Islamists trounce liberal reformers
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They may not face the segregation that once defined the lives of black Americans, but many Muslim Americans feel that they are fighting the civil rights battles of the 1950s and 60s all over again.
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Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, according to a nationwide poll.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Her full, traditional veil, which stands out even here in the religious capital of the socially conservative Shi'ite south, makes it hard for Anwar Uboud-Ali to see on the campaign trail.
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DUBAI -- The United States will face worse attacks than those on Sept. 11, 2001 if it does not heed Al Qaeda demands effectively allowing the group control over Muslim countries, a US Islamist militant said yesterday.
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Islamist candidates swept to victory in Bahrain's parliamentary election, splitting the vote between hardline Shiite and Sunni Muslims while female and liberal candidates fared poorly in the U.S.-allied kingdom, preliminary results showed Sunday.
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She&#39;s not one of the married women with kids whose top concern is terrorism, a group some analysts peg as a distinct voting block shifting to President George W. Bush that&#39;s pivotal in the US election.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (IPS) - People in Europe and the United States may tend to  associate Islam with immigrants, autocratic regimes in the Middle  East and political violence. But many more Muslims live in  democratic countries in Asia, where political developments are  less spectacular and not as headline-grabbling, but as decisive.
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At the largest annual convention of American Muslims, a pro-Bush booth has stirred anger among attendees who believe the president's actions since Sept. 11, 2001, have hurt more innocent Muslims than terrorists.
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Major American Muslim groups gave what they called a "qualified endorsement" Thursday to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, urging Muslims to vote for him while calling his platform on civil rights inadequate.
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Belgrade: With the US election coming down to the wire, the Republican and Democratic camps are leaving no stone unturned in their hunt for votes, even if it means waging their campaigns in far-flung corners of ...
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American Muslims still face high levels   of hatred and suspicion nearly five years after the September   11 attacks and political leaders and the news media are mostly   to blame, Muslim leaders said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia has failed to take substantial steps to promote religious tolerance, despite assurances from the Bush administration that the kingdom has made progress on reform, a US watchdog group said yesterday. A report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom called for new congressional scrutiny of Saudi Arabia's progress in implementing religious reform policies announced in ...
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The September 11 attacks in the United States have left Britain's Muslim community feeling &quot;under siege&quot; and increasingly the target of racist incidents, Muslim leaders around the country say.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: The American election may be taking centre-stage, but on the other side of the Atlantic there&#39;s another neck-and-neck Presidential race underway, and this campaign is so dirty and bruising it makes the US poll seem rather genteel.
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WASHINGTON -- US efforts to win over the world's Muslims via news broadcasts, cultural exchanges, and other initiatives to explain American policies to skeptical audiences abroad are uncoordinated and underfunded, and risk sending contradictory messages about US intentions, according to a report by a bipartisan review panel appointed by President Bush.