In response to a controversies over the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero and on Staten Island, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, on his official blog condemned Islamophobic prejudice. Archbishop Dolan is the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, which includes Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island.

On June 17, 2008, I turned 28. I also got to watch the Lakers get spanked in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, a 39-point shaming by the Boston Celtics. Nothing can more deeply wound a Lakers fan than to see his (my) team lose to the Celtics, let alone for the ninth time in the NBA finals, never mind by nearly 40 points in Boston.

On Friday, June 11, at 7:57 p.m. in the 8600 block of International Boulevard in East Oakland, 22 year old Samier Ayesh, a Hayward resident, was shot and killed outside the store his family owned.

Lots of food trucks pepper city streets around the Bay Area, but there's only one bringing fresh, hot meals to the hungry.

School officials may suspend UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union for one year. The group is accused of repeatedly disrupting Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren last February.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born former Dutch parliamentarian and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute is clear about one thing: There is no hope for Muslim women who do not renounce their faith.

The latest in Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants focuses on what some refer to as ‘anchor babies’ – a label that describes children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants.

Forty four years after the brutal assassination of Malcolm X, the only suspect who admitted to his role in the murder was freed from prison.

The International Committee of the Red Cross is in Afghanistan teaching the Taliban basic first aid and giving them medical equipment. The ICRC's situation report revealed that its workers assisted "over 100 Afghan security personnel, over 70 members of the armed opposition, taxi drivers involved in the transport of wounded people, first-aiders and its own staff" in April.

Thousands of Bay Area residents joined forces Saturday in San Francisco to protest the passage of Arizona’s controversial immigration bill, SB 1070.