'Obama Is Said to Be Preparing to Seek Approval on Saudi Arms Sale'...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/world/18arms.html?hpw

People of the book - The true history of the Koran in America

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/09/12/the_true_history_of_the_koran_in_america/?page=full

Democracy Now: Tariq Ramadan Debates Moustafa Bayoumi on Proposed Islamic Center Near Ground Zero

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/13/tariq_ramadan_debates_moustafa_bayoumi_on

Ever Wonder What It's Like to Be a Muslim Woman in Post-9/11 America?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dinu-ahmed/muslim-women-on-park51_b_711254.html

"They shook that in Los Angeles.

 It wasn't being refused employment in the plants so much. When I got here practically the only job a Negro could get was service in the white folks' kitchens. But it wasn't that so much. It was the look on the people's faces when you asked them about a job. Most of 'em didn't say right out they wouldn't hire me. They just looked so goddamned startled that I'd even asked. As if some friendly dog had come in through the door and said, 'I can talk.' It shook me.

Maybe it had started then, I'm not sure, or maybe it wasn't until I'd seen them send the Japanese away that I'd noticed it. Little Riki Oyana singing 'God Bless America' and going to Santa Anita with his parents next day. It was taking a man up by the roots and locking him up without a chance. Without a trial. Without a charge. Without even giving a chance to say one word. It was thinking about if they ever did that to me, Robert Jones, Mrs. Jones's dark son, that started me to getting sacred.

-If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel (Himes, Chester), pg. 3

Zaheer Ali: Islamophobia Did Not Start at Ground Zero - Long before Sept. 11, African-American Muslims were the targets of anti-Muslim fears.

Important article by Columbia grad student Zaheer Ali

http://www.theroot.com/views/islamophobia-did-not-start-ground-zero

Zaheer Ali is a doctoral student in history at Columbia University, where he is focusing his research on 20th-century African-American history and religion. His dissertation is on the history of the Nation of Islam in Harlem, N.Y., during the time of Malcolm X's ministry. You can follow him on Twitter.

Tariq Ramadan on the Charlie Rose Show

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11199

Sherman A. Jackson: What Is Shariah and Why Does It Matter?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sherman-a-jackson/what-is-shariah-and-why-d_b_710976.html

Tariq Ramadan: Even now, Muslims must have faith in America

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/10/AR2010091005366.html

'My Nine Years as a Middle-Eastern American'

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/opinion/12khakpour.html?hp