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

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.

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

(RNS) — Journalist Rozina Ali argues that there has been little reckoning with the War on Terror and the lasting effects of post- 9/11 surveillance policies targeting American Muslims, in 'Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America.'

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.