Tag: Muslims
Moving the Conversation Forward
It just seems like déjà vu. Another terror attack in a western city and another nail in the coffin of Muslim community relations! Weeks after the Boston bomb attack, the gruesome Woolwich (South... Read More
Welcoming a New Pope
In an unprecedented event in the past 600 years, Pope Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger Benedict XVI announced his retirement from the supreme prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. This historical situation... Read More
From Tolerance to Compassion
On November 16th, it will be the International day of Tolerance, one of those UN designated days that are designed to gather global support around a cause, this one being the need to tolerate each oth... Read More
The Feast – Finding Common Ground in Abraham’s Legacy
On the 26th of October 2012, it was the Feast (or Eid ul Adha) symbolizing the culmination of the pilgrimage by Muslims to Mecca (the Hajj). These few days of light and love are supposed to characte... Read More
Black, White, East, West
Article first published as Black, White, East, West on Blogcritics. On April 23, 1912, a religious leader from the Middle East addressed a multiracial audience at the Metropolitan African Methodist Ep... Read More
A Response from an Oxymoron: A Review of Sasha Brookner’s essay “Muhammad’s Mistresses”
In reading Sasha Brookner’s essay, “Muhammad’s Mistresses,” I was initially furious with Brookner’s outlined attack against Muslim feminists. But upon reading further my anger was exchanged ... Read More
Francois Hollande: The Candidate for Change? Not for French Muslims
Last Wednesday night’s presidential debate saw Socialist hopeful Francois Hollande pitted against incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy on key points of the political agenda including nuclear ... Read More
Atheism Is Still “Other”
In “Atheists As “Other”: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society,” Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, and Douglas Hartmann show that “atheists are less likely to be accepted,... 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- 2 of 3
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