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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…

Libya’s Religious Leaders take Surprising Position:

By H.A. Hellyer

The Arab world is like a genie out of the bottle right now—it just won’t be put back in. First it was Tunisia, then it was Egypt, and now it’s as though the entire Arab world is stirring. Nothing is certain in Libya, except that violence will continue. But in a country that bred the likes of Omar al-Mukhtar, the famed 20th century resistance leader who struggled against Italian fascist occupation for so long, there’s no lack of courage or a taste…

Living Between Worlds: Muslim, American, Five Percenter

By Hussein Rashid

…idence. Early on, he also actively discounts any potential evidence for an Arab background for Fard. However, at the end of the text, as he explores the intellectual precursors to the Five Percent, he most closely aligns them with Arab movements, which is where my sympathies lie. I think he needs to address these competing ideas he puts forward more directly. He also talks about the fact that placing the Five Percent in a broader Islamic framework…

Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

By Haroon Moghul

…d by the emotional commitment requested by TheCall. A friend took me to an Arab restaurant, where all the waitresses wore hijab. That, and seeing Arabic signs and advertisements everywhere, only fifteen minutes from Ford Field, was pleasingly jarring (and strategically reassuring: In case things turned ugly, I knew where to run, and had a reasonable sense of how fast). I explained to one of the friendly, all-American, veiled waitresses what I was…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…f racism, a decision that was eventually rescinded under pressure from the United States. In the U.S., the publication of Jimmy Carter’s 2007 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which makes the first claim but not the second, caused an irreparable break between the former president and the leadership of American Jewish organizations. Within Israel the use of the “A-word” has a venerable history and had been associated with critiques from the Jewi…

Obama’s Bunker-Busters to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…strike will provoke Russia—which wants Persian Gulf oil—to lead an army of Arab nations against Israel. Then God will wipe out all but one-sixth of the Russian-led army, as the world watches “with shock and awe . . . .” But Hagee doesn’t stop there. He adds that Ezekiel predicts fire upon those who “live in security in the coastlands.” From this sentence he concludes that there will be judgment upon all who stood by while the Russian-led force inv…

Hawk Attack on Liberal Pro-Israel Conference

By Sarah Posner

…, the former AIPAC staffer, labeled any support to J Street from Muslim or Arab donors as an automatic taint, and launched a tirade against the support of J Street’s “allied organizations,” and in particular peace advocate Rebecca Abou-Chedid. It’s hard to imagine a more disgusting — and revealing — maneuver than to claim that Arab or Muslim support instantly undermines an organization’s “pro-Israel” credibility. Stand With Us accused J Street of…

Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…o cope with the following pronouncement: The problem is not the absence of Arab or even Muslim humor, but its application to the most sacred values… True humor is unrestrained and potentially liberating. The few traditions about Muhammad’s sense of humor do not mitigate the extreme caution that attends Islamic joking about sacred matters. And that may point to the source of the problem. (p. 284) Muhammad didn’t laugh enough. Muslims take themselve…

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…

When Is a “Religious War” Not Really a Religious War?

By Sarah Posner

…d the shiva for one of last week’s terror victims, Moshe Twersky: I saw an Arab man walking out the door with an entourage. His name was Ibrahaim Wassim, and he had come to pay his respects to the victims’ families. He was the deputy head of the Palestinian-Israeli village in the north called Baka el-Garbiyye. He told me that they had come, a delegation of Arab citizens of Israel, because he didn’t want “the extremists to drag us into this.” Har N…