Pope Francis's first canonization ceremony was a record-breaking one. The new pontiff named over 800 new saints on Sunday. That's already almost double the number of saints declared by Pope John Paul II, whose 480-odd canonizations were, at the time, more than those of all of his predecessors since 1588, combined.
The suspected Boston marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsaraev, are Muslim.Were their actions motivated by religion? And if it was, were they part of an organized radical Islamist group? We don't know. But that doesn't matter to a segment of anti-Islam bloggers who are latching onto the sparse biographical details as vindication.
The Innocence of Muslims saga came one step closer to a conclusion on Wednesday, when a U.S. District Court judge sentenced Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to a year in prison for charges unrelated to the film.
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority
amended their rules on Thursday prohibiting any ads they feel might "imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace." Like, say, one that results in an activist being arrested (on video!) for defacing an ad.
The filmaker behind the controversial anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims was arrested and ordered to be held without bond in a California prison for violating his probation from a previous arrest for bank fraud.
For the fifth straight day, around 1,000 Nigerian women taking the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca are stuck in Saudi Arabia airports because of a rule that says they must be accompanied by men.
Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian journalist and activist, made a very public show of defacing a controversial "anti-jihad" ad in a New York subway station, and getting herself arrested in the process.
In address to the UN General Assembly, President Obama will defend the First Amendment values of the United States in wake of the riotous uptick of anti-American protests caused by the anti-Islam video Innocence of Muslims.
Pakistan was willing to devote a national holiday to protesting the film Innocence of Muslims but calling for the producer's assassination is a step too far, apparently.
Protests in Pakistan over the anti-Islam film have continued to be ugly, and today things managed to get worse. While speaking at a rally, a Pakistani government official placed a $100,000 bounty on the head of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the filmaker behind Innocence of Muslims.
Protesters burned U.S. flags and hurled objects at riot police amid fires and clouds of tear gas in Pakistan's capital. Looks like the blowback over the Innocence of Muslims film isn't ending anytime soon.
One of the actresses in Innocence of Muslims claims she was misled when she agreed to be in the movie, and now that it's sparked outrage around the world, she's suing the producer and Youtube, for hosting the movie, in attempt to repair her image.
For the most part, the West has been spared of the kind of turbulent protests rocking the Muslim world in recent days, but that soon could change as anti-Islam groups threaten to screen the film Innocence of Muslims in the U.S., Canada and Germany.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice surprised journalists Sunday when she contradicted prevailing wisdom that the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya last week was not a pre-meditated attack.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man believed to be behind the anti-Islam movie that's sparked international outrage, may be on his way back to jail. He met with federal authorities late last night to review whether his participation in the movie violated his probation.
If you can't keep track of all the Muslim protests erupting across the globe, you're not alone.
Everyday Americans spout off hours upon hours of offensive statements about Islam. So how on Earth did a poorly-produced, wildly obscure 14-minute YouTube clip spark violent uprisings from Yemen to Afghanistan to Algeria to Egypt?
As members of the crew who worked on Muslim Innocence speak out, we're learning more and more about the mysterious man behind the movie, allegedly named Sam Bacile, what the real cost of production was, whether the movie played anywhere, or what it was originally about.
The biggest international news story of the month may be based on a total fraud. That's the sinking feeling reporters are getting about Muslim Innocence, the so-called "film" attributed to a flurry of riots from Algeria to Gaza to Egypt to Afghanistan.
From banning YouTube in Afghanistan to nationwide protests in Egypt, the outrage cycle is far from over following the release of an anti-Islam movie by a Israeli-American filmmaker Sam Bacile.
Few biographical details are known about the Israeli-American filmmaker who enraged Muslims yesterday with his incendiary film about the Prophet Muhammed. But one thing is clear: Director Sam Bacile expected his film to incite violence.
Geert Wilders is the leader of the Netherlands' Freedom Party, an anti-Islamic party polling fourth ahead of Wednesday's Dutch election, whose platform includes banning the construction of mosques and stopping all non-western immigration.
Last we saw John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban," he had being captured in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban, but today he's suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons so he and his fellow inmates in a secret Indiana prison can all pray together.
It only took one day for Fox News to identify the ex-Navy SEAL responsible for a new book on the death of Osama bin Laden. It took even less time for Al Qaeda-affiliated websites to begin distributing his name and image while calling for his "destruction."
In what must have been the oddest day of a long and painful trial, attorneys for Norwegian mass murderer Andres Breivik called anti-Muslim extremists to the stand to testify in their client's defense.
If you endured beatings, intimidation and arrests to bring about the end of a dictator's 30-year reign only to decide between his former crony and an Islamist to take over the country, you'd be upset too.
Thousands of Aghans protested at Bagram Air Base, the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, on Tuesday, as local laborers found out that NATO personnel had been burning Korans at the base.
Counter-terrorism experts said Al Qaeda wouldn't vanish in a sweeping final act but in a gradual, winnowing decline. A new report out of Southeast Asia gives a sketch of what that looks like.
An Islamist movement in Algeria has lead to the shuttering of the country's oldest bars, the rise of fly-by-night networks of suppliers, and secret sales of liquor in people's homes--all signs that the country is in the middle of its own prohibition era.
Salman Rushdie has canceled a planned appearance at a major literary festival in India after receiving a tip that his life may be in danger.
The Middle Eastern nation has designs on bridging East-West gaps in business, and, with the World Cup, in sports. But permissive Western attitudes toward liquor won't fly with locals.
The draw of all these Republican debates is the chance to see how the candidates act unscripted, and Tuesday night we learned that under pressure, some forget their name while others spill state secrets.
The office of French magazine Charlie Hebdo was destroyed after the satirical paper put a drawing of Muhammad on the cover and jokingly named him its "editor-in-chief."
Radical settlers target both Palestinians and the Israeli government
The Fox News head takes issue with the AP's characterization of people praying in mosques
A recently defunct FBI program had a rather simplistic view of Islam
The agency wants to "make sure we are doing the right thing"
The most powerful predictor of mistrusting Muslims: trusting Fox News
People, unsurprisingly, are worked up about this
Ramadan has renewed a longstanding debates in Morocco and Saudi Arabia
Is the press not properly vetting our politicians' faith?
The university says Subramanian Swamy has a right to free speech
Even as they report discrimination, a new Gallup poll find Muslims are "thriving"
Controversy sparks debate over free speech in academia
On Norway's far-right, Geoff Dyer, and Republican fanaticism
Al Qaeda has to walk a fine line when recruiting kids through cartoons
The obscure Dutch politician finds a friend in the right-wing blogosphere
Geert Wilders is acquitted in Amsterdam
The Party for Animals want to ban kosher slaughtering practices
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On electric cars, the problem with teacher's unions, and joining with China to fix Pakistan
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