Long-standing Christian narratives about Islam continue to inform political language, argues a sociologist of Islam.

Traveling to Europe's Dark Ages, one might expect to find newspaper headlines like these: "Archbishop of Canterbury says sharia law to be incorporated into British laws," "A Danish cartoonist is ...

Magdi Allam is Italy’s answer to Ayaan Hirsan Ali, the Somalian-born Dutch writer and politician forced to live under police protection for her repeatedly stark public criticism of Islam. Like Hirsan ...

Islamophobia, with its “phobia” suffix, implies that any fear or criticism of Islam itself is irrational and racist. This linguistic imprecision has real consequences for civil liberties and public ...