Canadians are struggling to understand the threat of "home-grown" terrorism after the arrest of 17 Toronto-area young men in connection with what investigators said were plans to commit massive terrorist attacks in Canada. The suspects all lived in Canada at the time of arrest; many are longtime residents and citizens.

The Virginia case has concerned civil libertarians and some Washington area Muslims since it began in June 2003. Eleven Muslim men were charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria with training with and fighting for Lashkar-i-Taiba, a group fighting the Indian government that the U.S. government considers a terrorist organization.

Fast forward to 2006, and President Bush is telling us, thank you very much, that we're addicted to oil. I heard [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi on the radio over the weekend saying that the Democrats now have a plan to make us energy independent by 2020.

The Ontario divison of Canada's largest union has voted to support an international campaign that is boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. Delegates to the Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario convention in Ottawa voted overwhelmingly Saturday to support the campaign until it sees Israel recognizing the Palestinians' right...

The northern Virginia-based Muslim Students' Association (MSA) might easily be taken for a benign student religious group. It promotes itself as a benevolent, non-political entity devoted to the simple virtue of celebrating Islam and providing college students a healthy venue to develop their faith and engage in philanthropy.

US President George W. Bush's decision to promote democracy in the Middle East as a cornerstone of his strategy in the "war against terrorism" came as a surprise to Americans and the rest of the world. Bush had not shown much interest in this subject or even in foreign policy in general before the 9/11 attacks.

Sorting out the various schools of thought about American foreign policy is difficult for Americans, so it must be pretty confusing to foreign observers. To decipher our debates requires knowing their background. The roots of the various positions are found in earlier arguments going back to World War II.

Pope John Paul II in January 2005 appointed a special committee to rebut the story based on Dan Brown's international best-selling novel, and so far this year one leading church figure has called for a boycott of the film and another has hinted at possible legal action.

We Americans have long been guilty of these crimes. On the eve of our entry into World War I, William Jennings Bryan, President Woodrow Wilson's first secretary of state, described the United States as "the supreme moral factor in the world's progress and the accepted arbiter of the world's disputes."

 The case, Hepting v. AT&T, 06-cv-00672, was filed in January, but made its first real waves on Thursday, when a retired AT&T technician alleged that the phone company lets the NSA review all its online and phone traffic, not just the relatively small number of calls the administration has admitted to monitoring.

At this moment in history, we cannot allow a large influx of Arab and Muslim immigrants who have no intention of assimilating into a Western, modern, and democratic American way of life. Please note that I am saying a "large" influx of immigrants who do not wish to "assimilate."

IN Anaheim, Calif., last week, a banquet to raise money for a former Florida professor drew top officials from a host of "mainstream" Muslim-American civic groups - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the American Muslim Taskforce and the American Muslim Alliance.

This dispute is unfortunate in purely human terms, and it is also a distraction. Whatever one’s views about Iraq then or now, the pressing question before us concerns the principles and goals that should guide American strategy going forward.

In the dark days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a small group of lawyers from the White House and the Justice Department began meeting to debate a number of novel legal strategies to help prevent another attack. Soon after, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency...

The report summarizes findings by five UN human rights investigators who spent six months interviewing former detainees. Their report is also based on information provided by the U.S. and by defense lawyers for some of the detainees. The investigators decided not to visit the prison because the U.S. wouldn't allow private interviews with the detainees.

The Iraqi government Thursday condemned prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, following an Australian TV broadcast of newly released images, the aired timing of which a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq called "irresponsible and "unnecessarily provocative."

In the last third of the 20th century, 22 million immigrants entered America. Many of these immigrants were Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, or members of other faiths. Unfortunately, the spread of these “new” religions tends to raise concerns among a minority of Americans who believe in a zero-sum version of inclusion.

Marking the fourth anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, January 11, 2006, Amnesty International released new testimonies alleging the use of torture and ill treatment against prisoners in the U.S. detention center and additional details on several detainee cases.

What is particularly chilling and revealing about this is that John Yoo was a key architect post-9/11 Bush Administration legal policy. As a deputy assistant to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, John Yoo authored a number of legal memos arguing for unlimited presidential powers to order torture of captive suspects,

The city of Jerusalem has a profound significance in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And to all three religions no place in Jerusalem is more full of apocalyptic and messianic meaning than the Temple Mount—the massive, 144,000-square-meter platform, 32 meters high, built by King Herod as a base for the biggest and most grandiose religious...

"I recognize the pattern," said Joe Lombardo of Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, who knows Umar. "Based upon what I've seen, I believe this is just a continuation of the harassment of Umar and of Muslims in general, to create fear that 'these people' are planning some actions directed toward the U.S."

Several judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said they want to hear directly from administration officials why President Bush believed he had the authority to order, without the court's permission, wiretapping of some phone calls and e-mails after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Lawyers for an Islamic scholar, a Fort Lauderdale computer programmer and an Ohio trucker want federal judges to determine whether evidence used against their clients was gathered by a secret domestic spying program. The cases are among the first to challenge the legality of the Bush administration's use of domestic wiretaps without authorization from a cour

A little-noticed holiday week executive order from President Bush moved the Pentagon's intelligence chief to the No. 3 spot in the succession hierarchy behind Rumsfeld. The second spot would be the deputy secretary of defense, but that position currently is vacant. The Army secretary, which long held the No. 3 spot, was dropped to sixth.

The Senate's decision to block a Bush administration push for long-term reauthorization of the Patriot Act -- which would have enshrined in law for years, and in some cases permanently, assaults on basic rights contained in the measure -- came after Feingold threatened a filibuster and then organized a bipartisan coalition of senators to back him up.

Four years after September 11, 2001, numerous non-Muslim Americans repeatedly ask, “Why do American Muslims stay silent in the face of extremism and terrorism? Why do they not act to cleanse their religion of the reputation it has acquired?”

Washington - A $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the US government as the source, one of the military officials in charge of the program says.

President Bush estimated Monday that 30,000 Iraqis have died in the war since U.S.-led forces invaded in March 2003, but he offered no second thoughts about ordering the attack and said the threat of terrorism against the United States has subsided as a result.

Today, these editorial pages begin a series of comments and opinions on Islam in America, the rise of the religion, what is happening to its followers and why every American should understand the basic tenets of the three founding religions of the Middle East.

Al-Timimi, who is now waiting for his appeal to be heard and is serving his sentence in isolation at the Alexandria City Detention Center, was convicted by a jury that included no Muslims and whose members had no prior knowledge or understanding of Islamic tenets.