NYPD Secretly Branded Mosques “Terrorism Enterprises”
How Islamophobia makes us less safe.
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Sikh Prof Attacked on Heels of New Study
It’s all about the turban.
Read MoreLindsey Graham and Al Qaeda Share the Same “Allahu Akbar”
… and jihad and sharia…
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Updated: Dr. Oz Thinks Anti-Muslim’s Sugar-Daddy Sheldon Adelson is “Not So Bad”
The doctor dances with settlers.
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Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”
When we read of Enlightenment efforts to rehabilitate the image of Islam alongside the fact that outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann raised more than $1 million in 25 days from a Muslim-themed witch hunt, it’s easy to ask how such openness could curdle into such paranoia. But that would be too simple.
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Palin on Syria: Let “Allah” Sort it Out
Was the former governor simply seeking a laugh or unwittingly invoking the Crusades?
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!
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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?
Read MoreAtheist Islamophobia… Again
Dogmatism by any other name.
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