With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire? A small group of Europeans have been doing just that — provoking death plots and at least one murder by turning out art that derides the Prophet Muhammad and the ...

DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado woman who converted to Islam last year and was lured to Europe by online extremists is among seven people arrested in Ireland in connection with a suspected plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist, her parents said on Saturday. The arrest of Jamie Paulin Ramirez, a 31-year-old mother, confirmed by a U.S. law enforcement source who ...

The White House on Wednesday offered its condolences following the death of Sunni Islam's top cleric, who last year hosted President Barack Obama's landmark speech to the Muslim world. Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, 81, died of a heart attack earlier Wednesday in Saudi Arabia. "We express our deepest condolences on the passing of Egyptian cleric Sheikh Mohammed Sayed ...

Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia. He was 81. Tantawi was the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar ...