(RNS) — Where does the history of Muslims in America begin? With enslaved African Muslims brought to the U.S. in the 1600s? In the 1930s, when the Nation of Islam was established by Wallace Fard ...

Michael Jackson, the king of pop, is “on the verge” of converting to Islam, CBS News reported last week. If that’s true, it fits into a recurring and important African-American pattern. Rumors of Mr.

(RNS) — Conversion stories are an American tradition. The stories are often the same, no matter what religion is involved. Someone was lost, then they were found. Or they were wandering in the dark ...

Yesterday’s Washington Post profiles a handful of Hispanic immigrant women who converted from Catholicism to Islam. “Across the nation, thousands of Latino immigrants are redefining themselves through ...

In his 2015 novel, Submission, Michel Houellebecq depicts a France of the near future in which a Muslim party has gained political power and, virtually overnight, transformed the Republic into an ...

Precious little courtesy or understanding. Are these comments just the overheated responses of incautious leaders following an unprecedented act of terrorism? Partly. But such conservative Protestant ...

Last month, the Pew Research Center conducted the first ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans, and some of the findings might surprise you. Here are a few key findings from the ...

The name Don Stewart-Whyte is an unlikely fit with any racial-profiler’s description of your typical Qaeda-inspired terror suspect. Yet, Stewart-Whyte, aka Abdul ...

British musician Yusuf Islam, who is also known by his stage name Cat Stevens, revealed he would be postponing his North ...