Islam

Terry Jones, Koran-Burning Florida Pastor, Sentenced to Death in Egypt

Terry Jones is going to have to put off that tour of the pyramids. The firebrand, Koran-burning, riot-inciting minister of hate in Gainesville has been sentenced to death in Egypt over his role in promoting a film tied to deadly protests around the Islamic world this summer.Jones, predictably, used ... More >>

Janet Jackson and Six Other Secret Celebrity Muslims

Just when you think you know someone, because they've literally grown up in the public eye, you find out that they're one of four wives to an Arab millionaire and a secret Muslim! Well, that's what the National Enquirer is saying about Janet Jackson in its latest cover story. And you know the 'Quir ... More >>

Most Ridiculous Anti-Obama Ad Ever Runs in Major Florida Newspaper

According to an ad running today in The Sarasota Tribune-Herald, Barack Obama is basically going to come down to your place of work and fire you, and then give it to an illegal immigrant. He's then going to reach into your pocket and steal all your cash to pay for gay babies and abortions. Go ahead ... More >>

Florida Pastor Terry Jones' Latest Stunt Tied To Attacks In Egypt and Libya, Where U.S. Ambassador Killed

Violent outbursts against the U.S. tore through Libya and Egypt last night, with protestors in Cairo scaling the embassy walls and tearing down an American flag and armed militiamen in Benghazi attacking a consultate and killing the U.S. ambassador and three other diplomats.Florida's hate-mongering ... More >>

Terry Jones Unapologetic After Libyan Violence, Calls Muhammad "Mentally Ill"

Hours after four American diplomats died in an attack sparked by an anti-Islamic video he has promoted, Florida pastor Terry Jones was in no mood to apologize. In an interview with New Times inside his Gainesville-area church this morning, Jones railed against Obama and Islam, even calling Muhu ... More >>

Miami imams accused of funding terrorists: Hate and redemption

Oh, the Humanity

"NUTS!" Allen West's One-Word Response to South Florida Muslim Group

​Congressman and possible senator Allen West lives in his own serene and strange reality where, no doubt, his recent response to a local Islamic group makes perfect sense. In early August, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent a 679-word letter to West urging him to cut ties w ... More >>

Koran Shredding to Be Held in Boca Raton

Mark Rowley wants to shred the Koran.​We're not sure what the Koran ever did to Florida, but residents of our state seem to have a habit of wanting to burn it. Hot on the heels of Rev. Terry Jones' burning of the Muslim holy book in his tiny Gainesville church, Boca Raton resident Mark Rowley soug ... More >>

Hafiz and Izhar Khan, Alleged "Terror Imams," Head to Court this Afternoon

via Google StreetviewThe Flagler Mosque​The father-and-son Miami imams charged this weekend with aiding Pakistani terrorists will make their first appearance in court today at 1:30 pm as South Florida's Muslim community tries to come to grips with the accusations.The Miami Herald says that the cas ... More >>

Allen West, uncut

A candid conversation with South Florida's rising Tea Party star.

Rev. Terry Jones Faces Trial For Mosque Protest in Michigan

​Rev. Terry Jones, perhaps Florida's most vile exporter of hate since Anita Bryant, is set to face trial over a planned protest near the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan. Apparently, encouraged by the response he got first from his threat to burn Korans and then actually carryin ... More >>

Twenty-Two Dead in Afghan Protests Over Florida Koran Burning, But is Terry Jones Directly to Blame?

​Twenty-two people, including several United Nations workers, have been killed in Afghanistan during protests over Florida pastor Terry Jones's burning of a Koran in his tiny Gainesville church. Jones, who had postponed the burning after threatening to hold International Burn a Koran Day on the ni ... More >>

Koran Set on Fire at Terry Jones's Gainesville Church

​Remember Terry Jones? The pastor of the tiny, fundamentalist Dove World Outreach Church in Gainesville, who set off a mini-international spectacle by threatening to host International Burn a Koran Day on the anniversary of 9/11? After widespread criticism and condemnation, he decided to ... More >>

Muslim Brotherhood Has Nazi Roots, Argues Florida Author John Loftus

wikimedia commonsThe emblem of the Muslim Brotherhood, which one Florida historian claims was founded on Nazi ideology​John Loftus knows him some Nazis.The former Department of Justice prosecutor and St. Petersburg native has made a career out of revealing what he says is the US government's deepe ... More >>

Ground Zero Islamic Cooking School: The Curriculum

Lee KleinLearn how to make this in Falafel 101Overlooked in the brouhaha over the Ground Zero Islamic Center is the cooking school to be located within the building. Although the place is still years from completion, Short Order has obtained preliminary descriptions of five courses to be included in ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Will Burn Korans Now

Back when we first picked up on the story of Dove World Outreach Center's planned "International Burn a Koran Day," back before it had become a media spectacle, we mused, "The Westboro Baptist Church currently holds the title of most insane thing purporting to be a Christian church in America, ... More >>

Koran Burning Cancelled, Pastor Claims Deal with Park51 Imam

Pastor Terry Jones​The tiny Gainesville, Florida, Dove World Outreach Center ignited an international controversy when they announced plans to burn Korans on the ninth anniversary of September 11. The story stirred the same strong feelings surrounding a planned Muslim community center near Ground ... More >>

Gerald Posner Plagiarized in Why America Slept and Secrets of the Kingdom, Research Shows

Photo by Bill Cooke Gerald Posner​In this week's Miami New Times, we write about new evidence that Gerald Posner plagiarized dozens of passages in his 2003 book Why American Slept and in 2005's Secrets of the Kingdom. After the jump, you can check out all the proof. But first, a little back ... More >>

FBI tries to deport Muslim man for refusing to be an informant

After Imam Foad Farahi declined to become a federal informant, the government tried to destroy him.

House Majority Leader Adam Hasner Leaves Chamber During Muslim Prayer

HasnerHere's is my personal take on officially lead prayer in public areas like legislative chambers, schools, and other government functions: If I had it my way, it wouldn't happen. Now, a bit of personal prayer is fine. Back in my school days I prayed to Jesus before many a test, and I'm not ... More >>

Guantanamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

The Stain of Gitmo: "We Destroyed People's Lives."

Tomorrow on newsstands, we tell the story of Omar Khadr, who is the youngest detainee at Guantanamo, the only Westerner, and a symbol of sorts. To some, he is exhibit A for all that is wrong with America's War on Terror. For others, he's an example of why the camp exists in the first place. For us, ... More >>

Joe Scarborough Won't Run For Senate Because Republicans are Now the Taliban

Just Yesterday, we were talking about a Joe Scarborough Senate run in 2010. And why not? If Charlie Crist doesn't run, former Rep. Joe "I Have a TeeVee Show" Scarborough sounds just as good or better than Connie "Hey, Remember my Dad?" Mack IV, Vern "Not Katherine Harris" Buchanan, and Marco "Check ... More >>

Hateful New Year

Muslim advocacy group counters "propaganda" film with a hotline — and gets blasted by racist callers.

Letters from the Issue of December 18, 2008

"If the missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of America, including New York."

South Florida Muslims use bus ads, hotline to counter "Obsession" DVD campaign

Remember when a copy of the DVD Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West -- a film decried as Christian propaganda that seems to suggest Islam leads to terrorism -- was included in a Sunday Herald? And we ripped the daily a new one for not initially explaining the controversial inclusion -- ... More >>

We get chastisted for running "right-wing propaganda" in our ad space

Tadahisa Yoshida, Kill Miss Pretty, DJ Heavygrinder Among Musical Guests at Anime Supercon

Herald Finally Acknowledges Controversial Nature of DVD Insert

Herald Bundles Controversial Documentary with Sunday's Paper

A Taste of Gitmo in Miami

Liberty City Seven Trial Travesty

The case against Miami “terrorists” is mired in greed and falsehoods.

Liberty City Seven Trial Begins!

Padilla Trial Gets Under Way With a Focus on History

Chris Brown

Lights! Camera! Terrorists!

The federal indictment against the so-called Liberty City 7 was TV at its finest

War: What Is It Good For?

In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege

Steve Earle

Must See DVD

Capturing the essence of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

The Sounds of Silence

Tune out the empty rhetoric from both the White House and the antiwar camp; you'll hear a new anthem

Muslim McCarthyism

A Miramar family gets the full suspect treatment

Letters from the Issue of December 26, 2002

The antiwar battle continues

A Tale of Two Mosques

Both are in South Florida and both attracted terrorists, but they could not be more different

Playing Is Praying

Omar Faruk Tekbilek finds the divine in the downbeat

The Accidental Terrorist

He stumbled into a group of Muslim extremists with plans to attack America. Then he stumbled into Miami. Today Shaheed Mohamed is nowhere to be found.

Fair Game

A terrorism survivor and expert digs into the bin Laden dilemma

Of Pain and place

Documenting devastation near and far-of the body, the mind, and the soul

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Complete Paris Concerts
Ocora/Harmonia Mundi

Two Faces of Islam

Two distinct factions of a religion -- one extremist, the other orthodox -- are vying for the minds and souls of Miami's Muslims