Rashied Omar is Research Scholar of Islamic Studies and Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He says bin Laden defiled Islam. An expert on Islam, religion and violence, interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding, Omar trained in religious studies at the University of Cape Town and in Sudan, Pakistan and Malaysia.

Flagg Miller is a religious studies professor at the University of California, Davis, who can talk about bin Laden’s influence among a diverse range of Islamic militant movements. Miller is writing a book, Becoming Bin Laden, that investigates the contents of the al-Qaeda leader’s own audiotape library, a collection of more than 1,500 tapes.

Read a Feb. 11, 2009 CBS News poll that found that nearly half of Americans’ belief in ghosts and the supernatural.

Nicholas Fotion is a philosophy professor at Emory University in Atlanta and and an expert in military ethics. Fotion can talk about whether the killing of bin Laden was justified as an act of war, the differences and parallels in ethical considerations between conventional wars and wars on terrorism, and whether terrorism violates conditions of just-war […]

Read or listen to an NPR report on the UFO sighting at the O’Hare airport in Nov. of 2006. 

Sarah Eltantawi is a scholar of religion, with a specialty in Islamic studies. She has written widely on Islam and politics.

Read a Feb. 18, 2011 Telegraph article that examines the myths behind out-of-body experiences, and scientists claims that the  effect can be created using computers and cameras.

Read an April 5, 2007 CNN article about the study of the human brain and its relationship and interaction with faith and religion.

Read an Nov. 4, 2011 Huffington Post article drawing a comparison between the smartphone app Angry Birds and religious lessons.