Moustafa Bayoumi

In his speech to the Muslim world, President Obama offered little that was new. And he didn’t connect the dots in his bullet-point lecture. He failed to recognize how the multiple problems that hover over the region are increasingly linked and feed dangerously off each other.read more

McCain had an opportunity to wash the smears away. But instead he added another layer.read more

McCain had an opportunity to wash the smears away. But instead he added another layer.read more

It’s been seven years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and many young American Muslims are convinced that much of American society views them with growing hostility. They’re right.read more

Sen. Barack Obama needs to mend fences with Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans.

He initially inspired people in these groups.read more

July 26, 2006

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to the Middle East was belated, and her misplaced rhetoric could end up only exacerbating the violence.read more

June 22, 2006

Should the police be able to arrest you based on your religion and then imprison you indefinitely while they search for a crime to charge you with?read more

March 22, 2006

Muslim-bashing has become socially acceptable in the United States.read more

August 22, 2005

As a New Yorker, I ride the subway almost every day.

Since July's subway bombings in London, I, like other New Yorkers, have been gripped by the fear of global terrorism hitting our city's mass transit system. In response, police have
begun randomly checking bags of straphangers to deter would-be suicide bombers.read more

June 30, 2005

As they defend the nation, the U.S. armed forces should also protect the separation between church and state.

Several military leaders have lately been using their positions of authority to promote a specific religious point of view. This threatens the very idea of religious freedom.read more

March 31, 2005

Dramatic changes in Lebanon in the past few weeks have pushed the country's Syrian-backed government to the brink of crisis.read more

January 27, 2005

Times are tough these days for American Muslims.

Since last fall, a Muslim family in Arizona was shot at while sitting at home, an Islamic Center in Texas had firebombs lobbed at it, and vandals smeared feces on the walls of a mosque in Fargo, N.D., to mention just a few incidents.

And now a recent survey by Cornell University has revealed a chilling fact: Nearly half of all Americans support some sort of restriction on the civil rights of Muslim Americans.

According to the study, 27 percent of Americans believe that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their whereabouts with the federal government; 26 percent agree that mosques should undergo surveillance; 22 percent think the government should profile citizens as potential threats based on being Muslim or having Middle Eastern heritage; and 29 percent accept that Muslim organizations should be infiltrated by undercover law enforcement agents.read more

July 8, 2004

The Bush administration says it wants to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.read more

January 8, 2004

Raise your right finger and repeat after me: I promise I'm not a terrorist.read more

June 11, 2003

The American-led summit on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on June 4 had an unfortunate whiff of familiarity about it.read more