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There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

By Austin Dacey

…ds us what is at stake. Whether it is the Copts of Egypt, the Ahmadiyya of Pakistan, or the unregistered Protestants of China, self-identifying religious minorities can, to varying degrees, suffer the consequences of being deemed inauthentic by decree. During the French debate on the veil, President Sarkozy declared, “The burqa is not a religious sign,” suggesting that women had no religious right to don it. If the ideal of religious freedom means…

Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart

By Haroon Moghul

…out? Anything to make a social impact?” I had been on the Daily Show for a number of years at this point, and spoken to a lot of Islamophobes, people who had a lot of misinformation about Islam and Muslims. It was a personal thing to me, and it was an issue I thought I could lend my voice to in a satirical space. Were there any particular misconceptions or fears you wanted to address? There was a lot of stuff about Shari’ah Law, the protests again…

Bin Laden’s Death: Redress of a Wrong Suffered

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…nced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a targeted military action in Pakistan. One principle of just war theory has been fulfilled: To redress a wrong suffered. As a veteran of the United States Army, and one whose son served in the US Army during the first days of the war in Iraq, for all the many nights I fell asleep looking at the news hoping not to hear the dreaded “knock on the door” with news of a soldier lost at war, I have mixed feel…

No Fireworks, Only Candles: Our Work as Americans and Muslims

By Ayesha Mattu

…y by a streetlamp, filled with sadness for those who have died in America, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, and apprehension at the terrorism-related deaths to come. Our work as Americans and Muslims is far from done. The next morning, all I want to do is read news articles and listen to NPR, but the baby is grouchy, refusing food and wanting to be held. The more he grabs at my legs, the more irritated I become. Aggrieved, I take him to…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…he destruction of Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, the drones bombing in Pakistan, Yemen, the torture of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and the colonisation and occupation of Palestine. While most identified themselves as Muslims, they also said they were horrified by the ideological war the West has carried out against what it wrongfully calls “the Muslim world.” Patrick Eddington made a similar point in his critique of the politics of CVE: CVE-…

The Drowning of Bin Laden

By Haroon Moghul

…bin Laden; in that there is cause for profound spiritual reflection. There is also, I hope, cause to end any confusion of what he and his followers did with what Muslims want and what Islam teaches. I pray we find in his anonymous burial, in the sea south of Pakistan, that at the end, none of the peoples he claimed to be fighting on behalf of wanted him; more than that, to the few grumbling voices out there, President Obama’s framing—and the decis…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…ry support brings them closer to al-Qaeda extremists. 9. Malala Yousufzai, Pakistani Teenage Education Activist Escapes an Assassination Attempt by Taliban. 10. Brazen Taliban attacks in Afghanistan/Pakistan cause over two thousand deaths—but they still participate in negotiation talks in France and Qatar. 11. Boko Haram, Radical Islamists in Nigeria, Increase Attacks against Christian churches, moderate Muslim mosques, and Nigerian security insti…

United Nations Affirms the Human Right to Blaspheme

By Austin Dacey

…s not only a clear condemnation of the blasphemy laws of countries such as Pakistan, which despite having ratified the ICCPR in 2008, continues to impose the death sentence for blasphemy and “defiling” the name of Prophet Muhammad. The Comment equally repudiates the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which has upheld Austrian, British, and Turkish laws against blasphemy and religious insult by invoking a sui generis rig…

Muslim Women and Family Law

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…niversities is surpassing 60%. That doesn’t mean that every woman in rural Pakistan is literate, or that every woman in rural Morocco has a university education. It doesn’t even mean every woman in Iran is literate or employed: despite the high university figures, the country’s unemployment rate is still staggering, and women are often not employed if there’s a male candidate for the same position, especially if he has a family to provide for. And…

Carrie Prejean, God’s Prophet or Porn Star?

By Paula M. Cooey

The economy tanks, war in Afghanistan heats up and spreads to a nuclear Pakistan, and climate change escalates even faster than scientists originally predicted. But the real controversy, the real issue of the moment facing Americans? Carrie Prejean (currently Miss California, runner-up to Miss USA) takes on gay marriage. She’s opposed, in the name of God and her Christian faith—“no disrespect intended.” Clearly the culture wars wage on, though pr…