‘The Sorry Lot’: Sending US forces back to Iraq "by force"& call to arms...
“…. Romney – His utterances appear to be a mish-mash of well rehearsed and vetted responses that political consultants (the best that money can buy) have provided him. It doesn’t really seem that...
View ArticleMajid: Why America Matters to Muslims
Anouar Majid writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: “Why America Matters to Muslims One thing that is striking about the recent revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain is...
View ArticleQuandt on the US and Political Islam
Just a quick link if you haven’t seen it: Bill Quandt on whether the US can adjust to a Middle East dominated by political Islamist movements. Go to Source
View ArticleBriton faces jail in UAE for insulting Islam
A British engineer is facing jail in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for allegedly insulting Islam with an angry comment during a meeting, a media report said here. Go to Source
View ArticleThe Druze, a “singular people”
The current Islamophobia that sees states trying to adopt anti-sharia laws and painting Islam in the monocolored rhetoric of violent jihadism has a long history. So has the interest in converting those...
View ArticleThe Conference on Islam in America
The Conference on Islam in America is a collaboration of diverse Muslim individuals and groups whose mission is to clarify and to further define the modalities for Muslim life in the pluralistic...
View ArticleCritical Muslim: ‘Top Ten Towering Fatwas’
hurstblog, Critical Muslim: Top Ten Towering Fatwas Opinion: “A spectre is haunting Muslims—the spectre of fatwas. All the powers of old Islam have entered into a holy alliance: to issue more and more...
View ArticleIslam and homosexuality: Straight but narrow
from The Economist, Feb 4th 2012 ONE leaflet showed a wooden doll hanging from a noose and suggested burning or stoning homosexuals. “God Abhors You” read another. A third warned gays: “Turn or Burn”....
View ArticleAyatollah Khamenei and President Obama
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, gave an important policy speech on Thursday. In part, he was reacting to President Barack Obama’s remarks on Iran in his Super Tuesday press conference....
View ArticleEgypt comedian found guilty of offending Islam
An Egyptian court on Tuesday upheld a conviction against one of the Arab world’s most famous comedians, sentencing him to jail for offending Islam in some of his most popular films. Go to Source
View ArticleAnger over female circumcision in a Muslim sub-sect in India
NY Daily News, Tuesday, April 24th 2012 Over 1,600 Bohra Muslim women in India have signed an online petition calling for an end to the practice of female circumcision in the community. The community’s...
View ArticleThe US military’s Islam problem
The US military: the word’s most advanced fighting force, technologically bleeding edge, probably the most complex logistics and planning effort by anyone on the planet. The core of the American...
View ArticleOn Islam, Romney Doesn’t Have the Slightest Idea What He’s Talking About
by Juan Cole, History News Network, May 7, 2012 Mitt Romney said Monday that of course he would have taken out Osama bin Laden and that “even Jimmy Carter would have made that call.” Since Jimmy Carter...
View ArticleIslam’s place in Europe
CNN.com Blogs, Islam’s place in Europe – Global Public Square – : opinion piece by Jonathan Laurence. Go to Source
View ArticleFisk: "Saudi Arabia & Qatar funding a ‘resistance’– without apparently caring...
“… His story was as revealing as it was frightening. Damascus was about to be attacked. But the fighters were out of control. There were drug addicts among them. “Some of our people are on drugs,” the...
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