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Mercy and Justice Can Meet at the Border

By Michael Brendan Dougherty

…l Roger Mahoney of Los Angeles once speculated that those who wished to refuse entry to the United States would be refused entry to heaven. While speaking on his policy of offering sanctuary to illegal immigrants, he said, “Anything that tears down one group of people or one person, anything that is a negative in our community, disqualifies us from being part of the eternal city.” But most have acknowledged that nations do have a right to regulate…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…ing. Such an approach justifies the creation of an insurmountable boundary between modern and pre-modern, and between secularism and Islam. A more accurate assessment of Muslims in Europe should abandon the false precept of a monolithic Islam. Instead it should focus on the multiplicity of cultures belonging to Muslims around the world, and highlight results from surveys which regularly point to the important role played in an individual’s relatio…

S.O.S.

By Amina Wadud

…, my kids call me OCD (overly careful about details) in terms of a clean house including kitchen, but trust me, the kitchen needs to at least be clean enough that you can find the bowl you plan to eat your cereal in, so that it does not have left over caked-up spaghetti sauce from a late night snack. NObody—not even I the OCD, suhur diehard—wants to do dishes and wipe up a space to lay down your toast for butter and jam. So, clean up the night bef…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…ause you actually used your wealth and anything over and above of what you used is an unused asset. That’s the simplest version of it. It also includes other aspects of personal wealth, for those who have it, and so is not limited to savings. There are juristic differences in considering what is taxable to zakah from assets and what is not taxable. It is a lot more complicated than I have ever had to figure out: I’ve pretty much been limited to pa…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…male-only i’tikaf. In lieu of the mosque as the location of the retreat, I used to invite women to spend at least one weekend night, during the last ten days, in my house when I lived in Virginia. I thought if we could give women a reprieve from their regular schedule—a time for greater worship, more dhikr, muraqabah, Qur’an reading, shared suhur, and additional prayers during the night—that way maybe we too could taste this especially devout form…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…ion. I was in my teens when I found out there was supposed to be animosity between us. In high school, I learned about the split between Shi’as and Sunnis. I asked my parents what we were. They said, “Oh, we’re all the same, it doesn’t matter.” My father’s college roommate was Jewish American so our families celebrated holidays together every year. At 13, I’d heard the prayers so often I’d memorized them. I could have had my own Bat Mitzvah. I rea…

Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…Islamophobia. Some shoppers buy kosher not for religious practice, but because they think it’s safer. In Poughkeepsie, New York, a local Jewish group has been given the okay to place a menorah on public property downtown—they just can’t use city resources to build it or light it. Clothing retailer and gatekeeper of what’s hip (or at least what was hip in the early 2000s), Abercrombie & Fitch, is being sued because hijabs don’t fit into the “Abercr…

The “F” Word: Feminism in Islam

By Amina Wadud

…decades of my work on gender I refused to accept the label “feminist,” because of the politics of its use in the west. I gave my own title: pro-faith, pro-feminist. I was adamant that I would not bargain one against the other. This is probably because in the context of the west, the first time we begin to hear about Muslim women, we hear about them from some one other than Muslim women. Muslim men or non-Muslim women were our chief spokespersons….

Foreclosure, Fraud and Pharaoh

By Daniel Schultz

…explanation for this curious reluctance is the one offered by the White House: declaring a foreclosure moratorium punishes legitimate interests and puts economic recovery at risk. A not-so-charitable explanation is that this White House needs Wall Street bucks to finance its next campaign and is therefore unwilling to step out against robber barons, even in their excesses. That leaves the most of us to appreciate stories like this one perhaps mor…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…ently. If you think about it, anytime marriage is used to explain away rape, as in: “she is my wife, I can do anything I want,” then, clearly we have no clue what consensual means. We’d approve of forced sex or rape because it is between two heterosexuals with a contract, but we’d kill or hurt someone who had consensual sex with another person just because they are of the same sex. Yeah, we have a long way to go on these matters….