Karin Friedemann

Judith Butler began her February 7 talk at Brooklyn College in support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel by saying, ...

Students who organize Palestine Solidarity events on US campuses have come to expect pro-Israel groups to bully and threaten the universi...

In his book, “The Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham: Islam and the Future of Money,” Imran Hosein makes a compelling argument in favor of r...

“But waste not by excess: for Allah loveth not the wasters.” (Quran 6:141) One question that has puzzled me since I took shahada 20...

Due to social pressure, great strides have been made within the past 50 years to include women and non-whites in the picture of the past. ...

Imagine if you had 100 pennies, and you counted them, one by one. It does not take a very long time. Now imagine that each penny is one y...

In November, 2012, President Obama became the first US president to visit Burma since 1955. Human Rights activists felt this goodwill ge...

When I was young, New Year’s Eve was spent listening to the Top 40 music countdown with Casey Kasem and playing monopoly with my parents an...

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a relatively new way of extracting natural gas or oil from shale by exploding the rock with pressur...

It is widely taught that the most important quality in a potential spouse is high moral character. Yet, many people still choose their lif...

In 2010, 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was charged with leaking classified information to Wikileaks, which was widel...

There are many sad stories about Muslims who were sent to prison. Not all of them were misguided romantics framed by the FBI. Some earlie...

In the past, I have written about the connection between the women’s hijab and the struggle for protecting environmental resources. H...