The last year or two has been a bumpy road for American Muslims. From the Lowes  advertising fiasco with TLC’s “All-American Muslim,” to the never-ending Murfreesboro mosque protests, to the NYPD surveillance program, it has become apparent that as one controversy cools down, another comes up along the way. Right now, we’re in one of those troughs, one of those lulls in action, with many American Muslims awaiting the inevitable controversy

An appeals court has granted permission for the construction of a grand mosque in France’s second-largest city of Marseille to meet the religious needs of the sizable minority. “The case was in the hands of the courts, we had total confidence,” Abderrahman Ghoul, the head of the Marseille Mosque association, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Muslims have planned to build a grand mosque in Marseille’s northern Saint-Louis area. The mosque was