Kenan Malik’s latest book From Fatwa To Jihad: the Rushdie affair and its legacy distorts anti-racist history and plays into the hands of today’s anti-Muslim politics.

A young Muslim veiled woman has joined the Christian Democratic Party in Brussels to become the first and only veiled Muslim in a Christian political party with the likelihood of entering parliament, Al Arabiya TV reported Saturday.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama will offer his personal commitment to “change the conversation” with the Muslim world in a long-awaited speech in Cairo this week.

Many regional officials and militia commanders continued to perpetrate human rights violations with impunity.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has demanded that Israel put an end to all settlement building in the Palestinian territories, in a newspaper interview published Saturday.

As Numbers Continue to Climb, Top Officers Meet Monthly to Look for Answers.

Associated Press Writer MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Renewed fighting between government troops and Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital killed seven people on Friday, residents and an independent radio station said.

Somalia’s Western-backed government forces have launched a major attack against Islamist militants in the capital, Mogadishu.