The Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi has ignited controversy with his latest song, which refers to a highly revered Shiite Muslim cleric. Now an Islamist website has offered $100,000 for anyone who kills Najafi.
After years of controversy, DuPage County’s Board will consider whether the Islamic Center of Western Suburbs may turn a house near west suburban Bartlett into a mosque.
Hear historian Dr. Daniel Greene speak about his new book, The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism. In it, he traces the emergence of cultural pluralism to a group of Jewish college students and intellectuals who faced challenges as they sought to integrate themselves into the early 20th-century American academic and literary circles.
Should something happen to the two Cuban dissidents arrested during Pope Benedict XVI's recent visit to the island, I point the finger of responsability squarely at Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega.
The story of a Brazilian man who died after performing the role of Judas in the Passion of the Christ inspired writer Ian Belknap to think about this story as a performance piece gone inspirationally wrong.
