Islamophobia goes back decades, before 9/11, a new book argues

The post-9/11 infrastructure of Islamophobia

(RNS) — For US Muslims, the legacy of Sept. 11 is not confined to a terrible morning. It includes the institutions, organizations and assumptions that took shape afterward.

Some critics cite Mamdani's Muslim faith in demanding he skip 9/11 anniversary ceremony

NEW YORK (RNS) — The mayor — who released 170,000 documents incriminating past city officials for improperly assessing health risks after 9/11 — still plans to attend the ceremony.

What an Illinois village says about the US 25 years after 9/11

(RNS) — This anniversary finds the United States still unable to defend the American way that the Sept. 11 terrorists attacked.

What the AfD’s victory means for German churches’ influence

WITTENBERG, Germany (RNS) — The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party scored a pivotal victory for the far-right in Germany, an outcome churches fiercely fought to prevent. Their inability to stop it and the spread of the party’s anti-immigrant agenda expose a deeper rift in communities in which churches were a check on right-wing extremism.

A journalist coined ‘the Bible Belt’ 100 years ago – it’s been oversimplifying the South ever since

(The Conversation) — ‘The Bible Belt’ has been used for a century to describe religion and politics in the South. But it captured just some of life in the region then – and doesn’t capture what’s going on today.