Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World: An Excerpt
Finally, something Christians, Jews, and Muslims can agree on: Apocalypse. But as the theological end-time visions of the three Abrahamic faiths converge, it is not the wrath of heaven that threatens life on Earth, but all-too-human fundamentalism and fearmongering.
The Arab, the Feds and the Flood: Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun Rescues America
A Muslim everyman paddles his canoe to the rescue of a drowned New Orleans, and gets, for his pains, locked up in a local version of Guantanamo. This novel—a chronicle of faith and romance, of crisis and conversion—demands not just reading, but recommending.
Youth Violence Among American Muslims: A Perspective
What drives some young American Muslims to fight other people’s wars—or worse still, to bring these battles home?
A “security expert” writing at the Washington Times claims, without any evidence, that Obama is a Muslim.
Two examples of transposition from one culture or location to another, and both work surprisingly well.
The story-telling tradition may be a dying art form but a performance by Mahmood Farooqi, with star-power lent by Naseeruddin Shah, made a strong case for the future.
This festival, running now in NYC, is an example of the kind of border-crossing that art can inspire. Our coverage of the festival starts today.
From a religious and biblical perspective, the sons of Isaac have long viewed the sons of Ishmael as potential enemies, and vice versa. Each side sees the other as the opponent in a battle for God’s single blessing. But—in fact—God invented the two-state solution in Genesis 21.
A new form of bias against Muslims is taking shape, one that masks as “objective” and based on observation.
Four young Muslims attempted to bomb a New York Synagogue committed to interfaith work. A Muslim and a Rabbi point to the bad theology behind terrorism and the path forward.
Mumbai, Five Months After: Searching for a Coherent Stance on Religious Violence
From Left to Right, observers were quick to equate the Mumbai attacks to 9/11. But in doing so, the Left has tied itself in conceptual knots, for only consistency in the condemnation of religious violence can make for a sustainable response to the Right’s demonization of Islam.
Jewish State, Islamic State: All States are Religious
All nations contribute to the management and definition of religion so it’s neither necessary, nor possible, to identify any state as definitively “religious” or “secular.” To choose is largely political.
Op-Ed: The Real Muslims?
We all know by now that there are some who would like to claim the term “Christian” for their own particular brand of belief. Is there an analogy to this in the contemporary North American Muslim community?
Muslim leaders in Uzbekistan want women to wear traditional dress, not the Arab-imported hijab, and they've enlisted fashion experts to make the case.
An imam argues for less modest headwear for women, because he disapproves of the break with national tradition that full hijab requires.
Fundamentalist Mormons are in the news again, in Canada, where two men are being tried for polygamy. But what if it were legal? Women might benefit.
The War On Terror Is Over
First of all, the phrase “war on terror” needs to be retired. As a war, it is largely imagined, and as an idea it is ill-conceived. The effect of thinking in terms of global war is to make enemies out of millions of Muslims who would otherwise have been our friends.
Op-Ed: A Few Things I Wish Barack Obama Had Said
I deeply regret that some people took, or claimed to take, my use of this metaphor as a reference to Sarah Palin. Let me say categorically that I do not see Governor Palin as a pig...
RD10Q: No Peace Without Pluralism
Eboo Patel on forging an American Muslim Identity, on the founding of the Interfaith Youth Core, and on the positive role that religion can play in the world...
Arab is the new German; in this long, long war suspicion is raised against Arab-Americans when Muslims are profiled as potential terrorists...
Obama can prove once and for all that he’s not a Muslim, secret or otherwise, by accepting the Hindu Hanuman statue that he keeps with him...
Why do suspicions that Barack Obama is a Muslim persist (and why are they framed as “suspicions”)? Why do questions regarding his willingness to wear a lapel pin, and thus questions about his patriotism, continue to resonate?
In a recent Times Op-Ed neoconservative Edward Luttwak labeled Barack Obama “an apostate from Islam,” and that “would cause... complications in our dealings with the Islamic world,”
The Muslim headscarf is capable of numerous meanings, many of which are rather less dramatic than outsiders might imagine...
Will accommodation of Muslim family law unleash “brutal violence” and “polygamy” in England, as critics suggest?