published Jun 5th 2016, 10:00 am, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — Boxing made Muhammad Ali famous, but his conversion to Islam — and the meaning the world attached to it — made him a global historical figure. Ali’s conversion came to be understood as an act of transnational identification

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJZR906K50Y1 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said the U.S. and its allies must strip away any legitimacy that Islamic State and al- Qaeda claim by portraying themselves as religious movements. Obama, who has come under criticism from Republicans who say he avoids acknowledging the Muslim roots of extremist