By Mona Eltahawy NEW YORK — As Condoleezza Rice becomes the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Libya in 55 years, Fathi al-Jahmi will still remain in the cockroach-infested hospital room where he has been held against his will for months. You don’t know who Fathi al-Jahmi is? Ask vice presidential candidate Joe Biden. [...]

By Mona Eltahawy NEW YORK — If it’s been hard for American Muslim supporters of Barack Obama to hear right wing “accusations” that he’s a “secret Muslim” — and to feel that the Obama campaign keeps them at arm’s length — imagine how it feels to be an American Muslim Republican. “The last 8 years [...]