By Eboo Patel / USA TODAY On a typical day at his school in suburban Houston, he's pushed around on the playground, called "terrorist" and "towel head" and asked sneering questions such as, "When are you coming to bomb my house?" [Read More...]

Categories: American Muslims  Islamophobia  Racism  Religious Bigotry  

Added: March 09, 2010

By Ibrahim B. Syed, Ph.D. "In many Muslim societies, for example in traditional South East Asia, or in Bedouin lands a face veil for women is either rare or non-existent; paradoxically, modern fundamentalism is introducing it", writes Ibrahim B. Syed, Ph.D. [Read More...]

Categories: Islam  The Hijab  History  Gender  Fundamentalism  

Added: March 08, 2010

By MICHEÁL MARTIN Over a thousand companies have gone out of business since the Israeli Army's Operation Cast Lead in early 2009. Unemployment now runs at over 50 percent. What I witnessed in Gaza, amidst all the rubble and devastation still so evident from last year's conflict, was a population traumatized and reduced to poverty by an unjust and completely counterproductive blockade. [Read More...]

Categories: Gaza  Palestine  Israel  Occupation  War Atrocities  

Added: March 07, 2010

By John Esposito Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri declared that terrorists and suicide bombers were unbelievers and that "terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence and it has no place in Islamic teaching [Read More...]

Categories: Terrorism  Islam  Fatwa  Sectarian Violence  

Added: March 06, 2010

By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Another group of people that rush into the territories that are hit by natural disasters are the missionaries - the soul-snatchers. Jumo Kenyatta, the founder of Kenya, had a famous saying, "When the missionaries came to Africa we had land; they had the Bible. They asked us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them they had our land; we had the Bible." [Read More...]

Categories: Earthquake  Exploitation  Natural Disasters  

Added: March 06, 2010

By Salma Hasan Ali / altmuslim.com On a hot May afternoon in 2008 in Kashmir, music blasted through political divisions and guitar riffs silenced the guns. With the Zabarwan mountains as a backdrop, and the majestic Himalayas and Dal Lake in full view, Salman Ahmad and his band Junoon performed for more than two hours. [Read More...]

Categories: Kashmir  India  Pakistan  Peace  Music  

Added: March 05, 2010

By CARLOTTA GALL /NY Times "The Taliban cannot be forced out, you cannot subjugate them," he said. "But they can tire the Americans. In another three to four years, the Americans will be tired." [Read More...]

Categories: Afghanistan  Taliban  The US  Pakistan Army  The CIA  Mullah Muhammad Omar  

Added: March 04, 2010

By Abdal-Hakim Murad /islamfortoday.com "Walaysa al-dhakaru ka'l-untha, says the Qur'an: the male is not like the female. This is why we say, respectfully ignoring the protests of old-fashioned feminists, that men and women, in a God-fearing society, will tend towards different concerns and spheres of activity. Our aim, after all, is human happiness, not political correctness." [Read More...]

Categories: Islam  Gender  Muslim Westerners  Feminism  

Added: March 04, 2010

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF /NY Times Yemeni journalists turned Nujood into a cause célèbre, and she eventually won her divorce. The publicity inspired others, including an 8-year-old Saudi girl married to a man in his 50s, to seek annulments and divorces. [Read More...]

Categories: Yemen  Marraige  Gender  Discrimination  Books  

Added: March 04, 2010

By Acmad Toquero Macarimbang /Countercurrents.org The word "democracy" is not directly stated in the Bible and Qur'an, but there are narratives and interpretations that are substantially relating to the notion of modern democracy. This paper will present theological reasons why both religions are compatible with democratic forms of governance [Read More...]

Categories: Islam  Christianity  Democracy  

Added: March 03, 2010