Upon hearing Warren Buffett’s announcement on June 25, 2006, of giving $37 billion to charitable foundations, mostly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, declared that Muslim organizations “are lagging behind,” only because of intimidation by the West.
Following a decision of the US government not to appeal a court ruling ordering it to either issue a visa or provide good reasons for not doing so, Tariq Ramadan is on the eve of entering the United States, two years after his visa was revoked, based on provisions of the US Patriot Act allowing exclusion of foreign citizens who have “endorsed or espoused terrorism”.
BY DANIEL HENNINGER Friday, September 22, 200612:01 a.m. EDT
Who says the world lacks leaders? After again expressing his "respect" for Islam, Pope Benedict XVI at his weekly Vatican audience two days ago moved one of his knights forward on the global chessboard of Islamic politics
The war on terror will not be won unless people stop blaming UK foreign policyfor causing it, Prime Minister Tony Blair told Labour delegates. In his last conference speech to the party, he argued that to retreat from Iraq and Afghanistan now would "put our future security in the deepest peril".
AUSTRALIA has come well through the week that followed Pope Benedict's passing reference to Mohammed in his university address on the role of reason in religion.I never expected violence in Australia, and fully expected Moslem leaders and commentators to have their say. This is their right.
The Term ''''Islamic Fascist'''' Is Accurate, Even If Not Popular
Steve Huntley
The new president of the Islamic Society of North America admonishes President Bush and the rest of us not to use terms such as Islamic fascists in describing terrorists responsible for killing Americans and plots to do so.
Christianity and Islam must move beyond triumphalism -
Sep 16, 2006
John Paul II's papal rule was largely defined by his relationship with a global conflict between West and East. On Tuesday 12 September 2006, in a badly judged speech before a home crowd of Bavarian academics, Benedict XVI may well have set the parameters of his own period as Pope, pitching himself into a debate over Islam that has prompted outrage throughout the Muslim world.
Saudi Arabia's religious police, the Muttawa, are normally tasked with chiding women to cover themselves and ensuring men attend mosque. Now they are turning to a new target: cats and dogs. They have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets, seen as a sign of Western influence.
دون إبداء الأسباب ورغم حصولهم على تأشيرات... السلطات الأمريكية ترحل أربعة رجال دين مصريينبعد احتجازهم 24 ساعة في مطار ميامي
كتب أحمد حسن بكر (المصريون) : بتاريخ 22 - 9 - 2006
رحلت سلطات الهجرة الفيدرالية الأمريكية، أربعة من رجال الدين المصريين كانوا قد احتجزوا منذ الاثنين الماضي في مطار ميامي لمدة 24 ساعة بعد أن منعوا من النوم أو الاتصال بمحامين، من دون أن تقدم أي تفسير لقرار منع دخولهم البلاد أو ترحليهم، رغم سلامة التأشيرات الحاصلين عليها من سفارة الولايات المتحدة بالقاهرة.
To allow Islamists to direct the post-7/7 debate was a disaster
Michael Gove
THE BRITISHState has come under severe criticism following the Forest Gate raid for its intelligence failures in the fight against terrorism. But the biggest failure of all in the battle against Islamist extremism has gone practically unnoticed.
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE :: Bernard Lewis Explains The Clash With Islamic FundamentalismPosted by The Editors on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 7:55 PM
It is said that a truly brilliant person has the ability
to explain complex problems in clear, concise ways
that everyone can understand. Bernard Lewis, the
most distinguished scholar of Islam in the world,
proved that dictum on Monday, September 11th
when he spoke at the Hudson Institute's conference
on the problems with the U.N.
THE scene was peculiarly British. In an old cricket pavilion adorned with photographs of long-forgotten Essex batsmen, the Home Secretary was making much of being descended from an oil-and-water mix of Irish Catholics and Scottish Presbyterians, and of his ability to think on the dual level of being Scottish and British at the same time.
Although not a religious person myself, I am usually in favor of a revitalization of Christianity in Europe. However, I sometimes have my doubts when I see how many, too many, church leaders consistently end up on the wrong side of issues related to Islam and Muslim immigration.
William Rees-MoggBenedict did give offence — but no great religion should be immune from difficult questions.Journalists should not criticize Pope Benedict XVI for his lecture at Regensburg. He has done only what every sub-editor on the Daily Mail does every day. Confronted with a long and closely written text, he inserted a lively quote to draw attention to the argument. We all do it. Sometimes the quote causes trouble, but more often it opens up an argument that is needed.
The war on terror will not be won unless people stop blaming 
Michael Gove
It is said that a truly brilliant person has the ability
By Nicola Woolcock