Religion Dispatches
Just as the Arab spring has upended conventional understanding of Arab and Muslim societies, so a new report on the issues faced by LGBT Muslims challenges the stereotype of Muslim communities in the U.S. and abroad as monolithically closed to conversations about sexuality.
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RD talks with journalist Amy Waldman whose first novel, The Submission, presciently imagines a controversy, set in post-9/11 New York City, in which the design of a Muslim-American wins a contest to build a 9/11 memorial.
Read MoreThe Center for American Progress follows the money in a groundbreaking new report.
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If Breivik is insane, then his insanity lies in taking fully to heart the widely fluctuating language of right wing Islamophobes who perceive an existential threat to our freedom and life, a Manichean vision of an uncompromising evil fighting a good that has to be equally unsparing in warfare.
Read MoreIslamphobic activist rages against the “über-left, Islamic media machine.”
Read More“He may be right,” suggests possibility of cosmic, civil war.
Read MoreAmong other things, Anders Breivik is foolish.
Read MoreConfessed shooter wrote that “politically correct elites” made Europe soft to Islam.
Read MoreOr so says, Erick Stakelbeck of Pat Robertson’s CBN News.
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