Another Professional Sports Religion Story
Oday Aboushi talks about being drafted by the New York Jets.
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An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai
On a recent trip through the region, via Istanbul, I took some pictures to capture some of the spirit of the place for lack of a better term. When you bring that many people together, chasing after money and the chance to strike it big—again, think American Wild West, for better and worse—you get… things that surprise you.
Read MoreBig Love, Saudi-Style
In my years of travel throughout the Muslim world, I’ve literally never met a person with a second spouse. And I’ve met a lot of people.
Read MoreReligion and Violence? Short Answer: “Religion” Does Not Exist in a Vacuum
It is patronizing to reduce religion to “ethics” or “values.”
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Was Islam Responsible for the Boston Bombings, or Was “Internet Islam”?
RD bloggers have rightly asked the question of the depth of the “piety” of the Tsarnaevs. That too misses a vital point. I do not for a moment discount the sincerity of the feelings for Islam by the Tsarnaev brothers. But, what Islam was the object of those feelings? I would offer that it was for an “Internet Islam”—for an abstract, compact, easily rendered Islam, fed by the representations flowing from out of the ether!
Read MoreWas Tamerlan Tsarnaev a “Devout” Muslim?
A bloggingheads discussion.
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Don’t Blame Religion for Boston Bombings
As soon as it became clear that the older of the two suspects in the Boston bombing had become a more fervent Muslim in recent years, commentators began to point to religion as the culprit. But is it?
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Islam, Essential to America?
This book is my own effort to equip myself to talk about and engage with the nation’s fastest growing religion, to offer a snapshot of one of its most influential institutions, and to tell the stories of the students and scholars who have taken up the challenge of this experiment in American education.
Read MoreMargaret Thatcher: A Muslim’s Perspective
Did you hear the one about Margaret Thatcher’s funeral?
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No Virginia, There’s No “Clash of Civilizations”
In a book geared toward the general reader, scholar Anne Norton confronts Islamophobia in the West and argues against the persistent notion that Islam and the West are locked in a cosmic battle.
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