JERUSALEM -- A solid majority of Jewish Israelis worry that President Barack Obama's outreach to the Arab and Muslim world will come at their expense, a new poll showed Monday. Israelis also strongly back stopping Iran's nuclear program, even if Israel ...Read More
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Efforts to rescue the sinking Middle East peace process are losing support. Influential U.S. pundits have lost faith. Those Israelis who never did believe in it are saying: we told you so. Some Palestinians believe it is as good ...Read More
JERUSALEM, Nov 13 (Reuters) - More than half of Israelis would support peace talks with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas if it recognised Israel, a poll published on Friday said. The results of the survey conducted by the Israeli Dialog Institute ...Read More
U.S. Muslim service members say they stand out in both their worlds. Among fellow troops, that can mean facing ethnic taunts, awkward questions about spiritual practices and a structure that is not set up to accommodate their worship. Among Muslims, the ...Read More
Washington - The Army's top officer is concerned about a backlash against Muslims in the US military following the shootings at Fort Hood. But, he says, the military's tradition of accepting people from different faiths must never waver. As investigators sifted ...Read More
JERUSALEM, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- It is not the first time Mahmoud Abbas has said he intends quitting as Palestinian leader. When he said on Thursday he does not plan to seek re-election, the general feeling amongst Israelis was that ...Read More
FORT HOOD, Texas—An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by ...Read More
CAIRO (AFP) – Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority. "The relationship ...Read More
KILLEEN, Texas - Leaders of the vibrant Muslim community here expressed outrage on Friday at the shooting rampage being laid to one of their members, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who had become a regular attendee of prayers at the local ...Read More
As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.
From a professor who just testified in Congress, to a ...Read More
When he saw the name of the Army officer accused in Thursday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Imam Awni Qudah got that sick feeling again. "I feel nervous when I see a Muslim name or an Arab name," Qudah, the spiritual ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arab and Muslim Americans on Friday braced for the possibility of verbal or physical attacks after an Army psychiatrist of Arab descent allegedly killed 13 during a shooting rampage at a military base in Texas.
Suspected gunman Major ...Read More
Palestinians turned out on Friday to show their support for Mahmoud Abbas
Israeli officials have expressed concern over the decision by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not to seek re-election.
Several officials suggested that if carried through, the move could hamper ...Read More
Bradley Burston is offended by my characterization of Israel's inability to let go of the occupied territories as a pathology, a characterization he says can only be made by someone who hates Israelis. Perhaps to soften the blow, Burston also wrote ...Read More
TEHRAN -- Iran's supreme leader, spurning what he described as several personal overtures from President Obama, warned Tuesday that negotiating with United States was "naive and perverted" and said Iranian politicians should not be "deceived" into starting such talks. Ayatollah Ali ...Read More
JERUSALEM, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Palestinians on Sunday to restart the peace negotiation, but offered no breakthrough on his policies over the peace process. "The Palestinians should come to their senses and enter negotiations ...Read More
Upset yet content with God's will, Muslims called for justice Saturday at the funeral of an Islamic leader who was killed by FBI agents in a shootout last week. More than 1,000 packed the Muslim Center in Detroit in a spillover ...Read More
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed on Saturday to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks with Israel, a spokesman for Abbas said, citing Jewish settlements as a stumbling block.
Clinton, ramping up efforts by ...Read More
As stunned Muslims tried to make sense of the shooting death of a Detroit imam, some sought to tell a different story about the life of Luqman Ameen Abdullah. To them, Abdullah was a selfless man who took the time to ...Read More
Muslim leaders from metro Detroit said at a meeting today with the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office that the shooting death of a Detroit imam was a case of entrapment involving unreliable informants who targeted poor Detroiters. Imam Abdullah El-Amin, head ...Read More
Federal officials today asked the public for help in finding three suspects who remain at large, and could be dangerous, after Wednesday's raids in Detroit and Dearborn that resulted in a shootout and killing of the head of an Islamic ...Read More
