The family of the alleged Fort Hood shooter held his mother’s funeral at the same Virginia mosque that two Sept. 11 hijackers attended in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.

The Dutch are marking the fifth anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic, a brutal killing that continues to shape politics in the Netherlands.

Anti-Islamic Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders has been allowed into Britain and is due to address the media at London’s Parliament, the politician said Friday.

An Istanbul court says it has acquitted a Turkish author of charges of insulting Islam in his latest book.

You are there—sipping green tea with President Obama in this imaginary one-on-one . . . Sir, in your Cairo address to Islam you were the first Western potentate since Napoleon to embrace the Islamist narrative dividing humanity into warring religious camps: Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc. That implicitly supports re-establishment of the caliphate—

Leaders of Richmond’s Muslim community said they are pleased with President Barack Obama’s speech yesterday in Cairo, not just because they’re Muslims but also because they’re Americans. “There’s a lot of excitement,“ said Imam Ammar Amonette of the Islamic Center of Virginia. Obama “addressed both the American Muslim community and our history and our part in America, as well as acknowledged the Muslim world as a whole and the need for a new beginning of mutual respect and recognizing problems.“

I’ve had no exposure to Islam until this past decade, but have had an abiding interest since meeting a couple of Muslim colleagues. Muslims do embrace the natural law of Aristotle, which reflects the best of Western culture, and they do worship the one God of Abraham of the Old Testament. They reject the Christian Triune God, but do accept Jesus Christ as a great teacher, prophet, and miracle worker and they pay great homage to his blessed mother, the Virgin Mary. Pillars of Islam do include well-defined habits of prayer and fasting, which are the backbone of traditional religious practice. Muslims adhere to a very strong family tradition with a marked emphasis on modesty, sometimes excessive in certain cultures, but nevertheless an essential ingredient for carnal probity. They rightfully abhor the pornography so prevalent in Western society and the subtly salacious sex education thrust on our children.

Today, as Muslims around the world celebrate the holiday Eid al-Adha, known as the Feast of Sacrifice, thousands of Richmond-area Muslims will gather at the Arthur Ashe Center for a morning prayer service.

Today, as Muslims around the world celebrate the holiday Eid al-Adha, known as the Feast of Sacrifice, thousands of Richmond-area Muslims will gather at the Arthur Ashe Center for a morning prayer service. The holiday comes at the end of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. According to Islamic teachings, the hajj is a spiritual journey that cleanses the soul and wins absolution. Yesterday, nearly 3 million Muslims converged on Mount Arafat, a rocky desert hill outside Mecca to perform the ritual of forgiveness marking the climax of the hajj.