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Ground-Zero Mosque: A Call for Internal Muslim Debate

…closing ranks automatically to support any project or organization that’s under siege by ignorance and misunderstanding. Instead, our community needs to debate the merits of the project in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere. A substantive back-and-forth amongst Muslim voices on both the economics and the impact of this building needs to happen. The projected $100 million budget is massive. Could there be better ways to spend this money?…

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Pew Survey Skews Christian

…there is also a presumed knowledge of American Christian history that I found odd. Question 15 asks about the First Great Awakening. I don’t know how much this is emphasized amongst Christian communities, but the Awakenings are not something that are part of popular culture. I think this highlights a conclusion of the survey, that we do not know a lot about religion. Pew defaulted to Christian thinking in presenting this survey. As a result, we k…

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Ihram: Dressing for the King

…have taken it to mean that is all they are permitted to wear so they go around without any underwear. My friend Na’eem wrote a nice little book on his hajj experience some years back with his wife before she died. He described a man running for a bus, who just managed to get in the door way when his bottom half of his ihram was ripped off by the momentum, leaving a naked buttock exposed for all to see (and enjoy, because if you think about it, it’…

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The Real Context Of The “Taliban Dan” Ad

…gious extremist. For the record, I do not like the ad. I think throwing around the comparison with the Taliban, like the label “Hitler,” is not constructive for civil discourse and actually weakens the effectiveness of the labels when we really need them. Still, contrary to both FactCheck.org and PolitiFact’s assessments, Webster’s 2009 talk is actually an excellent example of the point made in the Grayson ad: that Webster holds views that are out…

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Studying Religion is Suddenly Popular

…theology and Bible. The question is whether this requires starting over on completely new foundations, as opposed to evolving from roots that are passably healthy. Since Protestantism is the majority religion of the United States, one might hope that quality work in this area is not mere esoteric elitism. And although everyone knows about the disturbing aspects of Religious Studies legacy on this front (in my view, neither more nor less damning th…

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Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

…-‘a’mal al-salihah. The relationship between orthodoxy and orthopraxis has come under attack recently, and by these three scholars in particular. If you challenge some of the presumptions about orthodoxy, you effect change in orthopraxis and all of these men were vanguards in this respect. Islam is built upon ideas. If we contribute to the world of ideas in any way, but in particular in such a way that everyone benefits from the contributions, the…

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Everyone Should Know the Story of Cary Crall

…Web page where Crall’s article had been: The Daily Universe made an independent decision to remove the student viewpoint titled “Defending Proposition 8” after being alerted by various readers that the content of the editorial was offensive. The publication of this viewpoint was not intended to offend, but after further review we recognized that it contained offensive content. This is consistent with policy that he Daily Universe has, on rare occa…

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Lessons Learned this Ramadan

…ut nothing resembling companionship ever resulted. I prayed tarawih at the community around my shaykh (whom I have known for 8 or 9 years), with most of them American converts about my age and level of education, and the worship was sweeter. Go figure. Family matters. I did take a few days off from the intensified worship just to be with my family who lives farther away from me. Still, we fasted and prayed and ate together and that too was a remin…

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Pastor Has Novel Response: Read the Qur’an Day

…rance and to attempt to provoke others to violence and conflict. For those who wish to read the Qur’an online, here is a link. McGrath ends with a quote by Heinrich Heine, who said, “Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.”…

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