How do I find an expert on a particular religion or theological issue? By Adelle Banks Religion News Service Face it now: You will never know everything about religion. The key as a reporter is to learn whom you should know who could ably explain various aspects of the faith groups you cover. At a […]

Amaney A. Jamal is an associate professor of politics at Princeton University and the director of the Workshop on Arab Political Development.

President Obama stressed that bin Laden was “not a Muslim leader,” as USA Today‘s Faith & Reason blog notes in an article about bin Laden’s death and burial.

Read the text of Obama’s initial remarks after the raid on Osama bin Ladin Pakistani compound, posted at Time.com.

Read CNN’s article and obituary on Osama bin Laden.

Read The Washington Post’s obituary on Osama bin Laden.

Read The Washington Post’s news story on bin Laden’s death.

Keith David Watenpaugh is a contemporary Middle Eastern historian and Islamic studies specialist at the University of California, Davis, who can discuss human rights in the Middle East, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Christian-Muslim relations. Watenpaugh is the author of Being Modern in the Middle East and editor of The Arab Intellectual and the Question of Modernity (2009).

Christian van Gorder is an associate professor of religion at Baylor University who teaches world religions. He is the author of multiple books, including Islam, Peace, and Social Justice and (as co-author) Jews and Christians Together: An Invitation to Mutual Respect.