David Hawa manages the Muslim trio Native Deen and other Muslim musicians through his entertainment marketing company Daze Studios in Sterling, Va. He can discuss the Muslim music scene and connect reporters with musicians, including Native Deen.

Jamsheed K. Choksy, Indiana University professor of Central Eurasian studies, history and religious studies, has written about the dissemination of ideas about evil through Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Mithraism and Islam, and the development of moral codes based on good and evil. He sees more scholarship focusing on collective responses to evil and on societal inequities, the […]

Mbaye Lo teaches Arabic at Duke University, Durham, N.C., and studies Islam in America. He is the author of Muslims in America: Race, Politics and Community Building (Amana, 2004).

Rabbi Marc Schneier is founder and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and a leading figure in building up relationships between the Jewish community and African-Americans, Latinos, Christians and Muslims. He wrote Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. & the Jewish Community.

Read a Sept. 5, 2012 Patheos article about the violence in Burma and the conflict stemmed from the discourse between race and religion.

A March 2004 paper by the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California which details the history of faith groups’ involvement in adoption.

Article from The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health & Ethics website about views on abortion and contraception in Islam.

ReligiousTolerance.org provides an article on marriage and divorce in Islam.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life provides provides a resources page listing religious groups’ official positions on same-sex marriage.