Earl Jackson is an old hand at manufacturing right-wing outrage. In January 2009, he went ballistic after President Barack Obama, speaking during his inauguration, made the non-controversial (and rather obvious) point that Americans hold many different religious and philosophical beliefs.

Democrats who now control the U.S. House of Representatives plan to alter the chamber’s ban on hats so that a newly elected Muslim woman can wear a headscarf.

A national Muslim group has gone to federal court to challenge a Virginia jail’s program that allows Christian inmates to live separately in a special unit dubbed a “God Pod.”