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Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree

By Ira Chernus

…lement with the Palestinians. Which way he will go now remains unclear. Mideast policymakers in the Obama administration must be spending much of their time these days trying to figure out how to satisfy the 90-year-old rabbi. Ovadia is delaying because he’s stymied by his own political conundrum. Over the years his movement has moved religiously to the right, bringing it closer to ultra-orthodox right-wing nationalism and reaping the political be…

Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?

By Salman Hameed

…ly the true “center of the world.” This line of reasoning has been heavily promoted and popularized by a prominent Egyptian cleric, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy, who claims that, unlike other longitudes, Mecca is in perfect alignment with the north magnetic pole. Some Arab scientists have also lent their authority to these claims. For example, Abdel-Baset al-Sayeed of the Egyptian National Research Centre claims that Mecca is a “zero-magnetism zone….

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

…time of my first years in college, I was studying traditions from the Far East. Eventually I lived as a Buddhist in an ashram and practiced meditation each morning and evening. I was already a vegetarian, part of my transforming consciousness about toxins and waste for the body and the spirit. Entering Islam was partially an accident. I was still reading about traditions other than the one of my birth. Likewise I began to read about Islam. I knew…

Pox Americana: Franzen’s Tragic Vision

By Peter Laarman

…locking worlds of Big Energy and American imperial overreach in the Middle East. Walter leaves his good job with the Nature Conservancy to become a DC-based environmental shill for a Houston oil and gas player (and Bush family friend) named Vincent Haven (Franzen’s use of surnames is consistently arch in a way that Dickens would appreciate). With the help of his nubile young Indian-American assistant, Walter becomes complicit in Haven’s scheme to…

Sacrifice

By Amina Wadud

…oon on the 8th day of Zul-Hijjah, when we will all go about 5-6 kilometers east of Makkah, to a place called Mina. There we stay performing the five daily prayers starting with the mid-day or zhuhr prayer, but these will be shortened. Usually for travel prayers are shortened to two raka’at instead of 4, and zhuhr and ‘asr (mid-day and afternoon) prayers are combined. Here, they will be shortened but not combined. We stay in Mina, in a kind of mode…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…ll make extensive use of in-home servants (in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East), it is that no one, not even the nicest ones, considers their servants as equal. It just doesn’t happen. Now, from the get-go, there are a few basic things to get straight. Islam is not one of those religions that extols the merits of celibacy: not for everyday ordinary folks, not for its Prophets, not for the priestly class, not for those seeking spiritual enlightenm…

Getting Back into Blogging

By Amina Wadud

Last night I returned to my own bed after four nights on the east coast; first to attend a closed workshop on women, Islam, and ethics, and then to meet new friends and see family. Since I gave up on the idea that I would ever sleep something like 8 hours (or even 6 or 7), I was pleased to wake up after almost five hours around 4:30. I was still hours away from the fajr prayer and from sunrise, but could not get back to sleep immediately, because…

CNN Editor Leaves Over Tweet on Hezbollah ‘Giant’

By Hussein Rashid

Octavia Nasr, CNN’s senior Middle East editor, is no longer with CNN. Her departure from CNN shows a continued lack of consistency when it comes to issues of Arabs and Muslims in the mainstream media. She left for a tweet that said nothing except that she was human. Nasr is of Lebanese descent and proud of her birth land. Because of her professional and personal knowledge of the country, she expressed a sentiment over the death of Marja’ at-Taqli…

Religious Differences Are Real (and Tolerance Can Be an Empty Virtue)

By Stephen Prothero

…ni and Shia Islam are essentially the same? Or our diplomats in the Middle East to tell them that the differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are inconsequential. So I’m for those soldiers and those diplomats—curious readers who know you can’t understand the world without understanding the powerful role the world’s religions play in it. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? All of the above. I have…

The Sharks Circling Glenn Beck

By Anthea Butler

…to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left,” charging that he “brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society.” Kristol is this close to Roger Ailes and the heart of Fox News, so if Kristol is criticizing Beck, then that means that the sharks, instead of being jumped over by Beck, are in the water looking for his blood. Conservative annoyance with Glenn Beck’…