Where Were the Tunisian Islamists? – NYTimes.com

As Rep. Peter King’s Muslim hearings approach, his past views draw ire. In 1985, the Irish government boycotted the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City, the biggest celebration in the Irish-American calendar. The cause of its umbrage was Peter King, that year’s grand marshal and someone the Irish government said was an “avowed” supporter of a terrorist organization, the Irish Republican Army.

Matt Reed: What you didn’t know about Sharia law, privatization , GOP election ‘reforms.’ | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com. Since 9/11, authorities have identified an average of seven Muslim-American terror suspects a year in domestic plots or attacks, including those caught in the early stages of planning, according to tracking by UNC sociologist Charles Kurzman. Those bad guys (and gals) represent 0.0004 percent of the U.S. Muslim population.  Tip of the iceberg, you say? Even if we multiplied the number of known domestic plotters by 10, it would still mean that 99.996 percent of U.S. Muslims have had no link…

The Power of Pop Culture. The following is a guest post from Dr. Hussein Rashid, a member of the Our Shared Future Advisory Board. Dr. Rashid took part in our recent panel discussion, “Across the Atlantic: Islam, the West and the Repercussions of 9/11.”