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Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…jjis, we don’t all look like hajjis. Only one other woman has on white: an African sister, whose partner does not wear the two cloths. In fact, several Africans were in their native dress. Okay, so maybe they will change on the plane. Well, about four and a half hours into the flight, they announce over the speaker that we will be passing over the mikat in about five minutes. How cool is that? Well, I thought it was cool and that some of these guy…

Hate Crimes Drop, But are Gays Safer?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sexual orientation or gender identity are “speech chilling, and religious freedom killing” and not needed. According to the Associated Press, the FBI reported that there were 6,604 hate crime incidents reported in 2009, down from 7,783 in 2008. In addition, “there were 8,336 reported victims, down from 9,691 in 2008. The victim totals include not only individuals but also businesses, religious buildings and other institutions.” FotF’s blog notes…

Hajj Journal: Tawaf: How I Fell in Love…

By Amina Wadud

…t getting ever more taut. Soon, she just disappeared. At another point, an African guy circled close enough to me from behind that his elbow stayed square in my back for more than one of the sides; and so, I told him, in English too, “remove your elbow from my back,” and he did, and then he too disappeared. At the 6th round, I was certain that we would not get close enough to touch the black stone, touch the Ka’abah, kiss the black stone, or even…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…ward anniversary: 100 years ago, in 1911, the Ottoman Empire lost its last African territory, Libya, to Italy. And speaking of Italy—the mother country of our favorite ethnic white reality show cast—this brings us to the most profound, insistent and unexpected influence on the Arab revolutions: Jersey Shore. Season Zero I met my first “ethnic” white person when I was well into my third decade, after I’d spent some years in New York City. The exper…

Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me to pass. As today’s Pentagon study notes: “[B]y 1953, 95 percent of all African-American soldiers were serving in racially integrated units, while public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and other cities were still racially segregated.” AFA’s talking points on the trumped-up religious freedom issue are still having an effect on those who have a vote in the repeal. Even Democratic Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas echoed AFA’s talking points, saying,…

Utah’s New Senator And The Intellectual Decline Of LDS Conservatism

By Joanna Brooks

…Founding Fathers (misremembered as devout Christians), the family, and the free market. Lee offered by contrast a modest, measured, reasoned, and footnoted account of the Constitution’s design and implementation in the branches of government. Sadly, that modest, educated, reasoned tone has gone missing from LDS conservatism in the wake of the Skousen-Beck revival, a revival Mike Lee has both profited from and promoted. Compare the views of Rex Lee…

Hajj Journal: Visiting the Kingdom is Not the Same as Visiting the King

By Amina Wadud

…arted, then I might be done by fajr salah. Then I could sleep and be ihram-free. Mr. Mansour said that fajr was at 5:10 a.m. He also said we would be required to make one check point stop, where we would “pick” our mu’allim. Well, I guess he meant have one picked for us, because nobody on the bus had any input on this point. This stop lasted maybe 40 minutes and fortunately, some of us also used it as a restroom stop. They passed us another boxed…

Surprise: Local Press Does Good Job Covering Anti-Islam Campaigning…

By Hussein Rashid

…g political backlashes against Islamophobic ads happened in Ohio where the Republican challenger for the State Treasurer, Josh Mandel, launched an attack against the incumbent, Kevin Boyce, claiming that Boyce showed favoritism in his hiring practices. The crux of the argument was that Boyce’s deputy, Amer Ahmad (disclosure: Ahmad and I were college roommates and remain friends), advertised a position only at his mosque to give preferential treatm…

The Constitution, the Bible and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Divide

By Julie Ingersoll

…coming to the podium to take their turns at reading. Especially moving was African-American Democrat from Georgia John Lewis reading the Thirteenth Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” My courses have long included the idea that there is an aspect of our national ide…

Illinois Pastors and Politicians Paint King as Homophobe

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…um, I mean, a “man of God and a leader who fought for the civil rights of African Americans [who] was not a champion for gay rights.” To properly remember King, according to David E. Smith, executive director of Illinois Family Institute, who attended the luncheon, people must remember that “Martin Luther King was first a minister of God.” As a minister, King wouldn’t have supported immorality, he asserted. Their assertion, of course, flies in th…