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State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…pment of US policy toward Sudan, which IRFA-associated groups named as the Number One violator of religious freedom for five years in a row, as US policy evolved to support the country’s division into Sudan and South Sudan in 2010. But the law plays virtually no role in US policy toward Saudi Arabia, given that, for 15 years, the president has waived sanctions on the basis of US national security interests.) More recently, people generally mean th…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…, informing us how new connections are organically emerging—in astonishing number—between rising Arabs, looking to invest massive sums of wealth in new markets, and risen China, a positive model for socially stable growth. These links involve much more than oil alone (Simpfendorfer makes much of the place of Islam in these relationships), but oil has produced the hundreds of billions that now constitute sovereign wealth funds taken seriously acros…

Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…religion. He associates mostly with South Asian immigrants, even going to Pakistan for a while, which, I believe, explains his ability to render the immigrant experience so well. He has a crisis of faith that happens as he learns about Shi’ism: I had been taught to revere that first generation. The Prophet had said that they would be the greatest Muslims of all time, seconded by the generation immediately after them, and then the generation after…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…ajority of the world’s Muslims live in democracies: Mali, Turkey, Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia, among other countries, with 700 million Muslims; more than half the planetary total. Other millions of Muslims live in majority non-Muslim dictatorships, such as Russia and China. But the best proof of Islam’s allergy to liberty is found in democratic Senegal. Independent in 1960, this 90%-Muslim country proceeded to ele…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ing, Russia invades Georgia, the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, Pakistan is on the verge of imploding, we don’t even know if the dictator of a nuclear North Korea is alive (and, if not, who is running that country), Iran may be building a nuclear weapon, and they are crawling all over one another to pledge their allegiance to…Israel? What exactly is going on?! Answers came from all sectors. “They’re pandering to the Jewish octogenarians…

Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…saying in an email that hiring Ghori-Ahmad to analyze religious freedom in Pakistan would be the equivalent of “hiring an IRA activist to research the UK twenty years ago.” Ghori-Ahmad claimed that her treatment by the USCIRF was part of a broader “pattern of bias against Muslims” on the part of the commission. Indeed, former USCIRF commissioner Khaled Abou El Fadl, a Muslim who teaches at UCLA School of Law, told the Washington Post that “[USCIRF…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…ass status; the Ahmadiyya Community, a large Muslim minority victimized by Pakistan’s blasphemy laws; or revisionist legal scholars like Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, author of Islam and the Secular State. Their advocacy for equal treatment of the heterodox, if it succeeds, will improve the lot of unbelievers in the Muslim-majority countries, yet its animating, organizing principle is not unbelief but freedom of belief. To them, the doctrine that God…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

…ly, they function in a similar way to qawwals in northwestern India and in Pakistan. Their music draws on Indic and Islamicate sources. Parvathy Baul was the first female Baul I had seen in public, and her music demonstrated the ways that cultures combine to create new forms. The song in the clip below ends with an invocation of figures normally associated with the qawwali tradition, showing how the Baul tradition is still evolving. Bab Makina The…

Ahmadi Muslim Community Doesn’t Speak For All Muslims

By Hussein Rashid

…rting African-Americans to Islam in the early part of the 20th century. In Pakistan, they are targeted by certain sectors as being heretics. This history of being a persecuted minority, but also being fairly cosmopolitan, should increase the community’s sensitivity to the way Muslims are being portrayed. Regrettably, that does not seem to be the case. About a month ago, Faheem Younous, President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Youth Organization…

Is This Light?

By Amina Wadud

…iqh, Islamic jurisprudence — since shari’ah is more abstract than law). In Pakistan or Nigeria an overinflated interest in penal codes, or the hudud ordinances, has left women to face the brunt of this Islamization project — and usually in a bad way. So if a woman says she has been raped that is taken as confession to a sexual relationship outside of marriage, and she is punished (again, since, rape, a crime of violence is punishing already). In N…