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The article discusses Muslim cleric Ahmet Tuzer. An imam who preaches in a mosque in Turkey, Tuzer also performs in a rock band called FiRock that in December 2013 is readying the release of its first album. He hopes that his genre of music, which he calls Muslim rock and contains elements of heavy metal, will help attract more young people to the Islamic faith.

The author cites Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the April 2013 bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon road race in Massachusetts, as an example of the small minority of Muslims hostile to the U.S., and considers what can be done to prevent such people from becoming U.S. citizens. She believes that all applicants for citizenship should be questioned by a diverse panel of experts on ideological extremism.

The article discusses a massacre in Nigeria in which persons belonging to the largely Muslim Fulani ethnic group allegedly killed at least 378 members of the predominantly Christian Berom ethnic group. In January of 2010, some 300 Muslims were killed by Christian assailants. An unstable political climate could exacerbate sectarian animosities.

The article focuses on criticism facing professor Larycia Hawkins after wearing a head scarf to express solidarity with Muslims.