More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim
New poll shows greater evangelical suspicion of Obama’s religion, evolution, and interracial marriage.
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Amid Horrors, Muslim ‘John Hancocks’ Forge Secular Sudan
While president Bashir has remained clear about his vision of Islamic nationalism, the conflict can’t be reduced to Muslim persecution of Christians. The broad struggle is of state-sponsored Arabist Islamic nationalism against racial and religious pluralism.
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Two Cheers for British Museum’s Sanitized Hajj Exhibition
After two years of planning and development, “The Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam” was launched this week. But the project does not come without hope and expectation in this post-9/11 era.
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Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism
What the anxious West has failed to recognize in the Arab Spring is that the political transformations of the Middle East are the coming of age of a new Islamism.
Read MoreLiving Between Worlds: Muslim, American, Five Percenter
Michael Muhammad Knight is living in that liminal space, not crossing thresholds of belonging and closing the door. He walks back and forth, and the text conveys that sense of unsettledness. Intentionally or not, Knight forces the reader to think about how we define ourselves and how much agency we actually have in that process.
Read MoreNAACP Calls Out Franklin Graham
Letter from faith leaders critical of his comments about Obama’s religion.
Read MoreHow the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims
The inverse of the argument that Islam ‘causes’ terrorism is the idea that Islam could solve the problem. Either way, it’s undue focus on the religion.
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A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree
Kadivar’s condemnation of all fatwas that call for the death of a “blasphemer” or “apostate” is in the spirit of his general approach to Islamic law. In his opinion as a legal scholar, an interpretation of Islam is fully compatible with the provisions of the UN declaration of Human Rights. When I asked him if he was optimistic about the possibility of reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a reform that would bring Islam into congruence with Human Rights ideas, he answered affirmatively and assertively. “Yes,” he said, “I am optimistic. That is why I am writing.”
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In The Daily Beast, Niall Ferguson Says: Bomb Iran
Ferguson always manages to discover himself at the head of the next great cause; how convenient for him, and for whole countries.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek
The outspoken ex-Muslim author has taken some liberties with the truth to cobble together a story that paints Islam as a religion of extremism and violence.
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