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Hussein Rashid

Hussein Rashid is a contingent faculty member of Religion at Barnard College and a Fellow at Truman National Security Project.

Archive, Hussein Rashid, RD BlogApril 28, 2017

In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regime, we are intimately linked to the death of Syrians.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Hussein Rashid, StoriesAugust 17, 2015

Toward a More Inclusive Islam

By Hussein Rashid

An item in this week’s LGBT Global Roundup about the struggle to recognize marginalized pro-LGBT voices in…

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Archive, Hussein Rashid, RD Blog, StoriesJune 24, 2015

Enlightenment Values Aren’t Just the Solution to Racism, They’re Also the Problem

By Hussein Rashid

The slaughter of nine worshippers in a Charleston church once more forces us to have…

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Hussein RashidApril 19, 2013

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

Jenik Radon, professor of international affairs: “not likely this was part of a larger plot or movement.”

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Hussein Rashid, Politics/LawMarch 12, 2013

I’d Rather Go Back to Yemen than Face NYPD

By Hussein Rashid

A new report details the egregious civil rights violations and damage to communities from the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim communities post-9/11.

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Hussein RashidJanuary 17, 2013

Islamophobia is Real, Mr. Mayor—A New York City Muslim Explains

By Hussein Rashid

We cannot trust the police, we cannot trust people on the subway, and Mayor Bloomberg fiddles. 

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Hussein RashidJanuary 9, 2013

Aurora, Batman, Crazy Congressmen

By Hussein Rashid

Politicians say the strangest things.

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Pam Geller’s Latest Subway Ad Inadvertently Attacks Hebrew Bible
Hussein RashidDecember 18, 2012

Pam Geller’s Latest Subway Ad Inadvertently Attacks Hebrew Bible

By Hussein Rashid

When you don’t know anything about the object of your hatred, it has a tendency to show. 

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Hussein RashidOctober 12, 2012

Muslims Lie, and Other Myths

By Hussein Rashid

A new document sets the record straight (though you won’t find anything on the president). 

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Jihad of Islamophobes
Hussein RashidOctober 1, 2012

Jihad of Islamophobes

By Hussein Rashid

What are we to make of Robert Spencer’s admission?

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