When it comes to wearing burqas, the French government needs to mind its own business.

The Diwan Foundation, an alumni-sponsored organization that supports Islamic activities on campus, plans to bring an Islamic chaplaincy to Cornell.

Chuck Guzak law discusses the public mania over the potential use of Sharia courts on American soil.

Arsalan Iftikhar, an internation human rights lawyer, lectured on anti-Muslim sentiments in the post-9/11 world.

Cody Gault '11 explains why the recent controversy around the proposed Qur'an burning ceremony showed America is a positive light.

David Murdter '12 says the backlash against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque is emblematic of growing anti-Muslim sentiment in the US.

Each semester, Cornell invites one professor from another university to deliver three lectures in their specialization, as part of the University’s Messenger Lecture series.

Ever since French President Nicolas Sarkozy infamously stated that the burqa was “not welcome” in his country, triggering a contentious debate between Muslims, secularists and everyone in between, I’ve been struggling to identify what exactly is at issue. Women’s rights? Secularism? National security? French culture? Is the French parliamentary panel’s proposed ban on full-veils — the burqa and the niqab — legitimate legislation or the latest form of Islamophobia?

Seventeen professors and students gathered around a table yesterday to hear Sidney Griffith, professor at Catholic University of America, speak about 10th-century Baghdad. Griffith used the personage of Yahaya ibn Adi, a prominent Christian Intellectual of the time, as a tool to describe Baghdad at the time: a society comprised of Jews, Christians and Muslims willing to correspond and talk with each other.

ISTANBUL — It’s Sunday morning. I’ve been sleeping for the past eleven hours and wake exactly how I feared — hurting all over. This is a product of my own doing. I’ve grown up my whole life watching football and have always had a burning desire to play. When the opportunity came along, albeit in Turkey, there was no chance I was turning it down.

My first practice started a bit shaky — “Stretch your calves, Aleks!” yelled Jokson, the burly team captain leading stretches at the center of our circle. As I repositioned my legs, the whole team went up in fits of laughter, thoroughly enjoying their leader’s elementary English. “Hello by the way,” I thought after this fine introduction, “My name is Alex, pleased to meet you!”