Tag: Islamophobia
Purim: A Serious Misunderstanding Of The Festival’s Mirth
Purim’s cathartic effect is remarkable, providing an opportunity for Jewish communities to parody themselves and their own hierarchies and imbue often-serious religious practices with music and ... Read More
CEO of Home Depot: Purchase Advertising on All-American Muslim to replace Lowe’s
These views are my own. I co-wrote this petition with Frank Fredericks of Religious Freedom USA. State of Formation is in no capacity co-sponsoring this petition, nor is the Journal of Inter-Religious... Read More
The Firebombing of Charlie Hebdo: Free Speech vs Islam?
The firebombing of Charlie Hebdo offices following its decision to run an edition featuring Prophet Mohamed as “guest editor,” is a sad reflection of France’s uneasy relationship to Islam and re... Read More
Oslo Attack Highlights the Dangers of Islamophobia
The mass-murder in Oslo last Friday was tragic. At least 90 innocents — many of them youth — are already dead, and authorities fear that the death toll may continue rising. Evidence is mou... Read More
Islamophobia: Increasingly Ordinary and Therefore Most Terrible
In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Leo Tolstoy scathingly wrote of a protagonist whose life was “most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” Such may also be said of the ruling put... Read More
“Are you a good Muslim or a bad Muslim?”
The fact that this question could be asked OUT LOUD to a GUEST of a Christian Church demonstrates a deep and pervasive understanding, in the status quo culture of the United States, that expressions o... Read More
Interpreting bin Laden on the Road to Emmaus
How do we encounter Christ in the midst of bin Laden’s death? If we celebrate the death of another, what does that say about us? It seems un Christ-like to rejoice, even if that death carries such... Read More
Inquiry to Delta Airlines
The following is the text of a message I sent to Delta Airlines in response to the incident of two Imams being removed from a Delta flight at the behest of one of their pilots. More information abou... Read More- 2 of 3
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