Morocco's Hassan II Mosque
AFKTravel has a photo essay about the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. Said to be the seventh largest mosque in the world, it cost some $12 million and was completed in 1993. The photo shows the top of the 60-story minaret, where there's a laser light shining the way toward Mecca. (

posted 1:25:36pm Mar. 02, 2015 | read full post »

Applying for a Job Wearing Hijab
According to the Associated Press, the Supreme Court indicated yesterday (25 February 2015) it will side with a Muslim woman who didn't get hired by clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch because she wore a black headscarf that conflicted with the company's dress code to her job interview.

posted 1:56:41pm Feb. 26, 2015 | read full post »

An Example for ISIS?
"More than 1000 Muslims formed a human shield around Oslo's synagogue on Saturday, offering symbolic protection for the city's Jewish community and condemning an attack on a synagogue in neighboring Denmark last weekend," Reuters reports. The response? Norwegians said they'd form a peace circle a

posted 11:50:27am Feb. 23, 2015 | read full post »

What Muslims Really Believe about ISIS
Here's an analysis of ISIS that places the bleme for its rise squarely on U.S. foreign policy decisions. "From Sunni to Shi’a, secular to conservative, Islamist to liberal, autocratic to democratic, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his doppelganger of a Caliphate have united the Muslim world like no on

posted 1:08:50pm Feb. 20, 2015 | read full post »

What ISIS Really Wants
"The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse." Thus begins a lengthy assessment of ISIS in The Atlantic. Read it here and tell us what you think. Do you agree that

posted 1:13:35am Feb. 18, 2015 | read full post »