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  • The former Woodmont Academy in Lisbon, Md., is the proposed site for development by a Muslim group. Although the debate is about zoning, a perception of religious discrimination is never far from discussion. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Muslim development plans meet resistance in rural Maryland

    A Muslim group's effort to move its campus from College Park to Maryland's rural Howard County is being met with opposition from local residents, who say dense construction plans for the site would spoil the quiet character of the area.

  • President Barack Obama attends the memorial for firefighters killed at the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Thursday, April 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Obama's scrub of Muslim terms under question; common links in attacks

    Before the Boston Marathon bombings, the Obama administration argued for years that there is a big difference between terrorists and the tenets of Islam.

  • PIPES: Education by murder in Boston

    What will be the long-term impact of the Boston Marathon attack that left four dead and injured 260, followed by an action movie-style chase?

  • Illustration Muslim Hope by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    GAFFNEY: Obama's 'friends of Hamas'?

    Last week, 25 Republican senators wrote a letter to a former member of their caucus and the man President Obama wants to lead the Defense Department, demanding full disclosure of his financial dealings. To date, Sen. Chuck Hagel has demonstrated afresh his contempt for the legislature by declining to do so.

  • ** FILE ** Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is shown in a video released by the Department of Defense on Saturday, May 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)

    Detroit gun shop stops selling Bin Laden targets after CAIR outcry

    A Detroit gun shop has pulled its Osama bin Laden skeleton targets after an outcry by the the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

  • Probe of Muslim food maker questioned

    A national Muslim lobby group called on U.S. authorities Wednesday to explain their investigation into a leading maker of food for observant Muslims, saying it is troubled by the secrecy surrounding the seizure of the company's bank account and records.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s fantasy world

    Unlike Daniel Pipes, I couldn't care less whether President Obama is Christian, Muslim, Jewish or Hindu ("Obama: 'My Muslim faith,'" Commentary, Wednesday). My major concern is whether his religion governs his actions in domestic and foreign policy. Undoubtedly the president's pronounced hostility toward Israel and its leaders does not prove that Mr. Obama is a Muslim, nor does it disprove that contention.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bachmann on the right track

    U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, has been accused by the political left of using wrongful and unfair tactics against Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's longtime aid, Huma Abedin, in suggesting Ms. Abedin has ties to terrorist groups ("The company they keep," Commentary, July 17).

  • Illustration: Obama and Islam

    GAFFNEY: The company they keep

    The truism that you know someone by the company they keep has rarely been more true than in respect to the Obama administration and its burgeoning ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists. Just last weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton became the latest member of Team Obama to consort with sworn enemies of the United States when she sat down with the newly installed president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

  • Illustration CAIR by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    WEISS: Islamically correct counterterrorism

    The Department of Justice and the FBI are revising their counterterrorism training material to remove "inaccurate and biased information" at the direction of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Protect freedoms of all Americans

    Wake up, America. Our country is under attack and we are either too blind, apathetic or politically correct to acknowledge it. have we, like Europe, succumbed to the intimidation of radical Islam and the cultural subversion of Shariah?

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    ALLOTT: Separation of church and scrutiny

    Of all the double standards that define the left-leaning political media, perhaps the most glaring involves the separate standards it uses in covering candidates' religious beliefs.

  • Florida mulls outlawing Shariah, other foreign law

    A measure to ban the use of foreign laws in domestic courtrooms is progressing in Florida's statehouse, one of dozens of similar efforts across the country that critics call an unwarranted campaign driven by fear of Muslims.

  • Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    GAFFNEY: American laws for American courts

    Shortly before Newt Gingrich's decisive victory in South Carolina last week, he was asked a critical question by a Palmetto State voter: Would he support a Muslim candidate for president? The former speaker of the House answered in a way that was both characteristically insightful and profoundly helpful with respect to one of the most serious challenges our country faces at the moment.

  • Illustration: Shariah in the U.S.

    EDITORIAL: Shariah in America's courts

    A panel of federal judges has ruled that states cannot protect their courts from jurists who base their decisions on international or Koranic law. America needs better judges.

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