Category: Islam
Accompanying One Another Through the Dark Night
October was not a fun month. After an interfaith peacebuilding trip in Nigeria, I returned with a stomach bug that so kindly kept me company over the next several weeks. The significant portion of my ... Read More
Dispatch from the Lifejacket Graveyard near Eftalou Beach in Lesvos Greece
There is a “lifejacket graveyard” on the island of Lesvos in Greece, where Syrian and Afghani refugees flee from wars, departing from the Turkish shores 4 kilometers away. This is where ad... Read More
Speak Truth to Power: Pro-Refugee Protesting Experience
Recently, my wife and I attended a protest to express our opposition to President Trump’s executive order to ban refugees from the seven Muslim-majority countries on the list it contained. The prote... Read More
Islamophobia: An Attack on American Democracy
This is a guest post written by Junaid S. Ahmad. In the wake of President Trump’s executive order banning the entry of Muslims from seven different Muslim majority countries, the country has wit... Read More
Building Bridges: A Muslim and Non-Muslim Dialogue about Islamophobia in America, Part 2
…And we’re back with the second part of our dialogue about President-elect Trump’s proposed Muslim policies. You can read Part 1 here. Q4: How do you feel about Trump’s call for Mosque surveil... Read More
Building Bridges: A Muslim and Non-Muslim Dialogue about Islamophobia in America, Part 1
There is an environment of fear, hatred, and xenophobia building in America. It was never more evident that it was early in November, when voters cast their ballot, and Donald Trump became President-E... Read More
Interfaith Partnerships Around the World: The Swedish Context
I recently attended a lecture by a rabbi from Malmö, Sweden about how both the Jewish community in that city, the community in Sweden, and general Swedish society is assisting the influx of refugees ... Read More
Learning to see an individual as an individual
As I made my way back home from the Muslim Jewish Women’s Leadership Conference hosted by The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom in New Jersey earlier this month, I had the chance to think about the im... Read More