“We have to be able to decode what’s happening and realize that this is religious intolerance on one hand, and it’s [also] good ol’ red-blooded American racial and ethnic bias on the other hand,” said Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, sitting in his office at the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Inc. in Harlem.

In response to the heightened bigotry against Muslim-Americans in recent weeks, a number of prominent Muslim organizations are calling their communities to action.

This is the way the Muslim calendar works: because it’s lunar, it slips back about 11 days each Gregorian year. Lunar months are 29 or 30 days (years are 354 or 355 days). So every 33-odd Gregorian years, the Muslim calendar makes a full pilgrimage through the seasons.

New York taxi driver Ahmed Sharif was allegedly stabbed Tuesday night for being Muslim. The 43-year old victim is now in stable condition.

Miss USA Rima Fakih says she is fasting from sunrise to sundown in accordance with her religious beliefs. The 24-year-old beauty queen is in Las Vegas preparing for today's Miss Universe beauty pageant, but says observing the Islamic month of Ramadan is important to her.

One wonders why only 20% of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim, considering the overwhelming evidence conclusively proving his slavish allegiance to Islam and utter disregard for Christianity.

In the midst of the national commotion around the proposed mosque near Ground Zero and the President’s recent defense of the plan at the Annual White House Ramadan Iftar, two Muslim-Americans have announced their intention to visit 30 mosques in 30 different states during the holy month of Ramadan.