Mar 19th, 2010 · Retired Gen. John Sheehan claimed that Dutch military leaders had called the presence of gay soldiers "part of the problem" that allowed Serb forces to overrun the Srebrenica enclave in Bosnia in 1995 and kill 8,000 Muslims. He was speaking before a Senate committee in opposition to a proposal to allow gays to serve openly in the U.S. military.
Mar 18th, 2010 · U.S.-born radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki released an audio message in which he calls on American Muslims to question their loyalty to the U.S. government "that is leading the war on Islam." Officials say it is the first time Awlaki has combined his propaganda efforts with a call to action.
Mar 18th, 2010 · Colleen LaRose is accused of conspiring with jihadist fighters and pledging to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war. Authorities say she wanted to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims. Her trial was set for May 3.
Mar 12th, 2010 · Recently a group of Muslim women in Washington, D.C. sought to protest what they considered to be an injustice — being confined to a separate prayer space from their male counterparts. The issue of gender segregation is one that many Muslims are talking about and to get some perspective host Michel Martin speaks with Asra Nomani who participated in the protests and wrote about them for The Daily Beast, and Asha Abdi, a student studying sociology at San Jose State University in California.
Mar 9th, 2010 · Colleen R. LaRose is accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday. She called herself JihadJane in a YouTube video in which she said she was "desperate" to ease the suffering of Muslims, the indictment said.
Mar 8th, 2010 · Violence in three mostly Christian villages that left more than 200 people dead Sunday appeared to be reprisal attacks following January unrest in the town of Jos — when most of the victims were Muslims, a Red Cross spokesman said.
Mar 1st, 2010 · Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic told the U.N. War crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that his people were defending themselves against Islamic fundamentalists. He is accused of trying to destroy the Muslim and Croat communities to create an ethnically pure Serbian state.
Feb 22nd, 2010 · With his intense stage presence and relentless drive to improve, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan singlehandedly brought Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, to the West and the non-Muslim world. In the process, he influenced an unlikely array of music around the world.