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The Latest Suspicious Ex-Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…transformation of using a double “s” is funny because it doesn’t exist in Arabic. For someone who insists he knows Arabic—and he spends a lot of time telling us he does—he doesn’t really show it. I also find it odd that he was apparently raised in secular Iraq as an engineering student and decided that he was programmed with “Islam.” In the span of 23 years he has managed to become a theological scholar with a 780 chapter thesis. It almost reads…

On Death and After-Death

By Amina Wadud

…neffable, so no language will suffice. Starting with the gender-neutral in Arabic “whoever”; then, we get the gender inclusive: “male or female”; then we revert to the male, but in this case it is clearly the generic, “believer,” because finally, we get plural, as in “all such” will be rewarded. The struggle to make this gender-inclusive while still concise in language tells me a lot about Qur’anic logic and guidance, but that deserves a whole dif…

Of Gods and Men Resurrects Martyrdom

By Nathan Schneider

…eeds at a monk’s pace, with long silent portions between spoken French and Arabic. It’s to Beauvois’ credit that you’ll never wish you could fast-forward; as for a monk, there is no reason to hurry. Such ordinariness is also a feature of the martyrdom he portrays. It stems from neither overzealousness nor a death wish. (May some early Christian martyrs forgive me for saying they could’ve learned from this.) The monks aren’t living in harm’s way si…

Run Hajar Run

By Amina Wadud

…ere. So she does indeed bear a child, and they name him Isaac (or Ishaq in Arabic). Then the story gets interesting. Well, what good are Hajar and her pesky kid if the couple has their own? According to biblical versions (we don’t have these details in the Qur’an), Sarah gets jealous and harasses the old man to get rid of the both of them. And the old man—who stood up to his people, but cannot stand up to God, nor stand up to Sarah—takes the slave…

Feisal Abdul-Rauf Still not Providing Leadership on Park51

By Hussein Rashid

Feisal Abdul-Rauf’s return to the United States, first from an extended visit to Malaysia and then an a short State Department-funded trip to several Arab nations, reignites the questions about leadership at the Park51 Project. His return resulted in a coordinated media outreach that continues to confuse the issue and show that no one really seems to be in charge. Abdul-Rauf begins this media offensive by writing an op-ed in the New York Times, i…

Anti-J Street Inquisitor and Palin Israel Guide Close with Christian Zionists

By Sarah Posner

…for their treatment of Israel and explain the continued funding. . . from Arab nations and donors.” J Street, which favors a two-state solution, calls itself “pro-peace” and “pro-Israel,” which incenses pundits like Caroline Glick, quoted in the CBN article as saying, ridiculously, that J Street wants to “wage war against Israel.” There was negative reaction to Danon’s show trial from other American Jewish groups, even from the Anti-Defamation Le…

The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark

By Jay Michaelson

…ack. In an interview with the Forward, the largest Jewish newspaper in the United States, Foxman explained that, to him, this controversy was like the one in the late 1980s over a Carmelite convent at Auschwitz. Then, Foxman said, “we asked the world to understand our pain, our sensitivity.” And now? “I felt and we felt that here is another group who is in the same position.” Of course, there are at least two huge holes in the syllogism here. The…

The Uneasy Coexistence of the Cairo Rumor Mill with Muslim Principle of Isnad

By H.A. Hellyer

…ciety, and Islamic thought is based on the principle of ‘isnad’ – from the Arabic word that means ‘support’. The idea is that no principle or idea can be believed or relied upon unless it has a confirmed and absolute chain of transmission, so that people can verify the authenticity of the information that is coming to them. It’s described by some Muslim sages as being the secret of Islam that ensures that it remains authentic to the original teach…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…nority rights.” The Conference of Presidents declares that “Israel and the United States share political, moral and intellectual values including democracy, freedom, security and peace.” These groups would never say, as do some in Netanyahu’s coalition, that Israeli Arabs don’t deserve full citizenship and West Bank Palestinians don’t deserve human rights. But in practice, by defending virtually anything any Israeli government does, they make them…

Islam, Meet Maureen Dowd

By Haroon Moghul

…wer is blind, entitlement is deaf. Dowd is frustrated by her trip to Saudi Arabia—but it’s not clear why she expects that because Saudi Arabia is “the cradle of Islam,” that it would provide the best introduction to Islam. The bias towards origins is a bias that has gone on for far too long. One can experience Islam in many places, and those different practices of Islam—most of them not even Arab—are as fully Islam as any other. (She could have em…