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Satanic or Silly: Does Yale Press Censorship of Cartoons Insult Muslims?

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…ieve that radical extremists are lurking everywhere just waiting for an excuse to promote violence. To suggest that deadly protest over these images can be rekindled by a book that attempts to explain the whole affair in academic prose is an insult to the vast majority of Muslims, especially those in the United States. Reaction by Muslims to visual images of the prophet Muhammad is not uniform, nor has it ever been. Predicting how Muslims will res…

The White Nationalist Fantasy of Ancient Christian-Muslim Conflict Would Get an ‘F’ in History Class

By Tony Keddie

…”). Some Christians in places like Syria, Persia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Arabian peninsula resisted these doctrines. In these regions, there were two main theological camps—the Monophysites, who spoke of Christ as having “one nature of the incarnate Word” (Logos), and the Nestorians who accepted that Christ had two harmonious natures but refused to attribute human sufferings to the divine nature. They also called Mary the Christotokos (“Christ-b…

Hijab: Culture, Custom, and Chaos

By Amina Wadud

…hoice both ways: choice to wear and choice to not wear. This is mostly because of the way I read the related Qur’anic passages. I pretty much stick to the Qur’anic ones because it was clearly such a non-subject from the perspective of the Prophet that we can scarcely find ahadith related to the topic. Unlike menstruation, that has a whole bab, book/chapter, in the hadith volumes, hijab or any of the other words have very obscure (then overused, or…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…l for the Church: a creed “without mortification or whips,” free from abstruse theology and hierarchies of priests. Enmity for the Church also led Voltaire, in 1772, to praise Islam “because it does not descend into the folly of giving God any assistants, and it has no mysteries.” This new view of Islam, particularly as expressed in Boulainvilliers’ biography, was a decisive influence on Edward Gibbon, who had already cultivated a lifelong interes…

Banning the Burqa Isn’t the Answer

By Rushda Majeed

…. In the case of the immigrant communities in France, he would serve the cause better by examining more fully the reasons for the marginalization of Muslim women; not simply focusing on an infrequent manifestation. One hopes that the 32 lawmakers of the French National Assembly (charged with finding ways to restrict the use of the burqa) will, after due consideration, give wider-ranging recommendations for improving the conditions of the women und…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…tis, “Article V: The danger to democracy you may not know about,” Common Cause, September 30, 2021, https://www.commoncause.org/illinois/democracy-wire/article-v-the-danger-to-democracy-you-may-not-know-about/. [84] Peter Montgomery, “Will Corporations, The Christian Right and the Tea Party Get to Rewrite the Constitution?” The Public Eye, October 16, 2017, https://politicalresearch.org/2017/10/16/will-corporations-the-christian-right-and-the-tea-…

If Muslims Stop Drinking Will They Become Violent?

By Haroon Moghul

…he majority of Muslims believe. Further, these assumptions handicap us because they mislead us about extremism’s origins. Rather than blame political causes, which are potentially solvable, we are pushed to see this violence as emerging out of religion and therefore incapable of solution. When you ascribe the enemy “irrationality,” you absolve yourself of the need to try to understand. Ten years on from the Iraq War, have we learned so little? N…

Sexual Ethics and Islam

By Kecia Ali

…nto a consistently insightful piece of prose. Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris, because she is a master of the personal essay, and because for those who love to read books, it’s wonderful to write about them. I could go on indefinitely. What’s your next book? Remember that book about the ninth century? I’m finishing up Marriage, Gender, and Ownership in Early Islamic Jurisprudence, which explores the conceptual frameworks used by Muslim legal authorities t…

Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

By Shane Burley

…escribed as such must likewise be antisemitism. When antisemitism is the cause Because antisemitism has a particular pedigree and logic, antisemitic attacks often have an easily detectable DNA. On January 15th, 2022, a rabbi and his congregants were held hostage in Colleyville, Texas by a gunman demanding the rabbi, somehow, order the release of an al-Qaeda prisoner held in the nearby Fort Worth prison. The gunman’s logic is clear: since Jews cont…

UPDATED: Religion Has Been Framed; Covering the Aga Khan’s Visit

By Hussein Rashid

…ia covering the Aga Khan’s visit?” Patel, with his interfaith interest, focused on the message of Pluralism the Aga Khan espoused, and the role education plays in generating a sense of pluralism amongst people. All these messages are accurate and necessary, but of the three writers of this event, all are Shi’ah, and two are Isma’ili, followers of the Aga Khan. Looking at that spread, one would think Shi’ah dominate America’s Muslim population, or…