“Veiled Voices” shows the world of Muslim women religious leaders through the eyes of three women in Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt.

A 2009 report from the Pew Research showed that eight years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Americans saw Muslims as facing more discrimination inside the U.S. than other major religious groups. Nearly six-in-ten adults (58 percent) said Muslims are subject to a lot of discrimination, far more than said the same about Jews, evangelical Christians, […]

A report by Pew Research, Public Remains Conflicted Over Islam, showed that favorable opinions of Islam have declined since 2005, but there has been virtually no change over the past year in the proportion of Americans saying that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence. As was the case a year ago, […]

A report by the Pew Center on Religion and Public Life found that Islam and politics made up a major part of religion coverage in 2011 and predicts that the global Muslim population will increase 35% by 2030 to 2.2 billion (from 1.6 billion in 2010).

While 1 in 5 people practice Islam internationally, A survey by Pew in 2010, The U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, found that about half of Americans are able to correctly identify the Quran and Ramadan as associated with Islam.

Stephanie Summers is CEO of the Center for Public Justice, a Christian-based policy research center.

Amy Sullivan is a contributing writer for TIME magazine and a former editor for Washington Monthly, where she wrote of the Democrats’ need to reclaim religion from the Republican Party. She is the author of The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats are Closing the God Gap (Scribner, 2008).

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics 2012. He has said Americans increasingly vote as they pray or don’t pray.

Corwin E. Smidt is a research fellow at the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics and a professor of political science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. He is author, editor or co-author of books on religion and public life, including In God We Trust? Religion and American Political […]