Author: Laurie Goodstein

Source: The New York Times Magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/us/politics/08muslim.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Monday that he planned to call mostly Muslim and Arab witnesses to testify in hearings next month on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism.

Author: Kimberlee Hauss

Source: The Huffington Post/Religion News Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/11/congress-muslim-staff-bri_n_572357.html

It's a long way from the Syrian refugee camp where Mouaz Moustafa started his life to the Capitol Hill office building where he spends his days handling reams of correspondence for a U.S. senator.

Within the span of just 10 years, Moustafa says he's now living...

Author: Paul Schmelzer

Source: The Minnesota Independent

http://minnesotaindependent.com/58561/muslim-group-decries-minnesota-womans-repentance-prayer-over-ellisons-election

As the Minnesota Day of Prayer was being held at the State Capitol Thursday, the Muslim Public Affairs Council called on the National Day of Prayer Task Force to repudiate a statement made by a...

Author: Andrea Elliot

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/us/politics/19muslim.html?ref=us

When President Obama took the stage in Cairo last June, promising a new relationship with the Islamic world, Muslims in America wondered only half-jokingly whether the overture included them. After all, Mr. Obama had kept his distance during the campaign, never visiting an American mosque and describing the...