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A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…an Advocacy and Civic Engagement Coordinator for the National Network for Arab American Communities (a network of organizations across 11 states), Sarsour represents a strong, independent voice. She’s been selected as a “Champion of Change” by the White House, calls Trump a “fascist” on national television, has been arrested by the NYPD at a Black Lives Matter protest, and works tirelessly to advocate for social justice for all Americans. The pow…

Tajwid: To Read with Love… and Competence

By Amina Wadud

…ecause sometimes people cannot. And it is more then just a complaint about Arabs reciting Arabic text that keeps them out. I lost out last year because after my accident I could no longer bend from the waist or prostrate. That much blood rushing to my head was painful, while the stitches were still there; and even after they had been removed. It was not the custom at the musallah, small prayer space, closest to my house for women to sit on a chair…

Netflix’s Iranian ‘Messiah’ Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base

By Tony Keddie

…ar (but by no means “solid”) teaching this viewer could detect is that any Arab or Middle Easterner might be a terrorist, whether they are an adherent of ISIS or a new-agey faith like Golshiri’s. It’s also worth noting that Golshiri’s message, presented as duping so many Americans, is a caricature of progressive positions: it’s opposed to capitalism, borders, and American military intervention abroad. The season ends with pious Christian families…

Protesters in Washington DC, the day before the January 6 insurrection, wrapped in American flags blow shofars.

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind

By Brock Bahler

…romised Land,” but they also start with a parallel us vs. them religiously-coded binary that envisions Native Americans and Arab Muslims in a similar category of the “savage” other. This rhetoric, in fact, serves a dual purpose for Netanyahu. On the one hand, it resonates with the faction of Israelis who see themselves following in the footsteps of those who, in addition to serving as a solution to European antisemitism, imagined Zionism as an ext…

Mubarak Steps Down; The Birth of a New Egyptian State

By Zaid Hassan

…lf-immolation, sparking the deepest and most widespread changes within the Arab world in generations. In the hours before Mubarak appeared on state television, rumours about his impending resignation swirled through the streets of Cairo, shooting across time and space through Twitter, Facebook, bouncing off satellites to millions of televisions around the world. The mood in Tahrir swelled with the crowds, as more and more people hit the streets, a…

Hajj Journal: Using the Toilet at the Grand Mosque

By Amina Wadud

…negotiating the terrain without undue hassle. In my case, because I speak Arabic, I “pass” as Arab and therefore supposedly a bit more in the know. It also let me bargain my way through the shops, whatever little shopping I did in Makkah. The shopkeepers are mostly not Saudi, so they detect an accent, but usually think I’m Egyptian, the dialect I use the most. My roommate said many of the shopkeepers are Urdu-speaking, but she got better service…

Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?

By Salman Hameed

…arly, because Arab astronomy was dominant in the late medieval period, and Arabic atlases played a key role in the development of modern astronomy, more than half of the brightest stars in the sky have Arabic names. But for some Muslims today, that’s not enough. Even if we concede the colonial legacy of GMT, what would justify Mecca to be the replacement reference point for the entire world? Things start to get messy pretty fast. There is now a wi…

Reading the Qur’an: Wherefore Art Thou?

By Amina Wadud

…ways of reading the Arabic of the Qur’an which matter little if you are an Arab or a non-Arab competent to read Arabic. For one thing, the Arabic of the Qur’an is not spoken by anyone. I could say not spoken by anyone anymore, but I would rather say not spoken by anyone ever. It is much closer to the Arabic spoken at the time of the Prophet. But a careful study of ahadith, statements recorded and passed down from that time, and of the Arabic of th…

Dear Reader, I’m Assuming You Don’t Know Any Muslims

By Haroon Moghul

…n I was growing up, all I knew about Pakistanis—other than that we weren’t Arabs and didn’t speak Arabic—was that we were Muslim. I believed all Indians were Hindus, because all the Indians I knew were Hindu. Fortunately, adolescence, attendance at a big college, and a healthy addiction to books disabused me of such naive assumptions. But they continue to run rampant, due in part to lack of exposure. I’m assuming you don’t know any Muslims, which…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…imes, Caldwell should understand that if fewer than one in five Muslims is Arab then, ipso facto, Islam is not isomorphic with Arabness. He describes the “vanquished enemy” of World War II as racist, although many of the vanquishers were structurally racist themselves. When describing large-scale Algerian immigration into France, he blames the violence of the “Algerian revolution,” though who or what Algeria was revolting against is evidently imma…