Omar Sacirbey
Omar Sacirbey writes for Religion News Service in Washington, D.C.
Blog Posts by Omar Sacirbey
Posted by Omar Sacirbey 1 week 6 days ago
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed a bill that would have made his state the seventh in the nation to prohibit judges from considering Shariah, or Islamic law, and other “foreign laws” in their...
Posted by Omar Sacirbey 3 weeks 21 hours ago
Oklahoma is probably one of the tougher places to be a Muslim in America, but Muslims have stepped in to help with the cleanup of a massive tornado that killed 24 people.“As Oklahomans, we’re part of...
Posted by Omar Sacirbey 4 weeks 5 days ago
When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved a 2010 ballot measure that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law, or Shariah, the Council of American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit...
Posted by Omar Sacirbey 7 weeks 21 hours ago
Muslims in America are much less inclined to support suicide bombing than other Muslims abroad, and are more likely to believe that people of other faiths can attain eternal life in heaven, according...
Posted by Omar Sacirbey 7 weeks 1 day ago
When Karen Hunt Ahmed and her Muslim husband divorced four years ago, many friends asked her, “Now you can stop this Islam stuff, right?”Some friends, she thought.“Like it was a hobby I took up when...
