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Nonviolent Resistance in the West Bank: A Review of Budrus

By Ira Chernus

…lence did not “melt the stoniest heart,” as Gandhi predicted it would; at least not yet. But they, and the filmmakers who framed their efforts, seem to have melted the knee-jerk opposition that sympathy for the Palestinian cause usually evokes on the American political right. The positive reception of Budrus in the U.S. says a lot about the political climate today. The right-wing “pro-Israel” movement (I prefer to call it the “Israel right or wron…

10 Years Later: An American Muslim Looks Back at Iraq

By Haroon Moghul

…rebrenica, advising America to think beyond war when it came to the Middle East. This suggests there is a purpose to the universe. Things come full circle. Or they cascade, like dreams inside dreams, except instead of Leonardo DiCaprio you have various tyrants, and there are only escalating nightmares. Because of Iraq, Syria looks like Iraq. It’s called the ‘Islamic State of Iraq,’ or Jabhat an-Nusra. The two most brutal secular dictators of the r…

What is Community?

By Amina Wadud

…house, while not living alone. I find it difficult. So when I came to the east coast, I got to enjoy fasting, suhur, prayer and iftar with the people I love the most on the planet: my own family. I remember posting on Twitter just how awesome it was to have that combination: my own eat, pray, love in the month of fasting, right here in America. I confess, I was so busy enjoying family that I let my tarawih and Qur’an reading slip… Now, I am here…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…a with the goal of bringing together close to 200 young people from across East Africa to talk about the post-election violence that broke out after the 2007 Kenyan elections. Button found inspiration and challenge when she stepped off the plane in Kenya, and she came back to create a series on her experience there. JS: How did your faith or the faith of other people play a role in this series? MB: During The Peace Summit, interfaith dialog was a…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…d as Americans in favor of religious freedom, including a 93-year-old Northeast Florida civil rights icon, who planned to go and make a citizen’s arrest. But several other callers demonstrated the depth of anti-Muslim hostility. One argued that Islam is inherently violent comparing responses to the planned Qur’an burning in Afghanistan to the responses of American Christians to desecration of their sacred symbols, completely ignoring the distinctl…

Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…an outright poisonous influence at worst. During the Second World War, at least one psychiatrist worried that radio soaps were undermining the war morale, distracting women with addictive stories that promoted destructive values. To label something a “soap opera” today still implies that what you are describing involves immature behavior, improbable plot twists, and/or unseemly sexual liaisons. Soap opera fans themselves have consistently been cha…

Muhammad and the Blind Man: A Lesson in Sensitivity

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…his eyes set on a 5-acre parcel of land that lay in dairy country 30 miles east of Los Angeles. His mission — to obtain city and county approval for a new mosque in Chino. Week after week, public hearing after public hearing — my father would round up the family in the station wagon and rehearse his “talking points” for the public during the long drives up north. I remember sitting by his side in the school auditoriums as he prepared to take the p…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…om a summer program in Egypt studying Arabic, and I was majoring in Middle Eastern Studies. I had no reason to be afraid, other than this detail: a longstanding panic in the face of attention, a strong preference for dry-heaving over public speaking. Crowds have moods, but this one wasn’t hateful, wasn’t vengeful. Just New Yorkers trying to figure out why we’d been attacked. A far cry from the crowds I’ve heard about recently, congregating to vent…

Ummah: Solitude and Connection

By Amina Wadud

…y house while not living alone. I find it difficult. So when I came to the East coast, I got to enjoy fasting, suhur, prayer, and iftar with the people I love the most on the planet: my own family. I remember posting on Twitter just how awesome it was to have that combination: my own eat, pray, love in the month of fasting, right here in America. I confess, I was so busy enjoying family that I let my tarawih and Qur’an reading slip… Now, I am here…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…rayer afterward. And so there is—all five prayers have a time range of at least an hour and a half, so one could be said to have prayed “in the prayer time” according to the Hadith. Praying immediately when the adhan is called or at the start of each prayer time is a plus, but not a mandate. So, I went with the majority. Boy was I sorry. After the days empty stomach it was a heavy burden to go straight into all those movements following the large…