The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide
When evangelical activist Brad Phillips told senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa about what he had seen and heard during a recent trip to South Kordofan, Sudan, they...
View ArticleMoses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal,...
A roundup of the week's religion headlines.
View ArticleWho Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network
The Center for American Progress follows the money in a groundbreaking new report.
View ArticleBy the Numbers: When Is a Christian Not Really a Christian?
When it comes to violence, there's still a double standard.
View ArticleWhy Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?
This summer, the world’s largest clock began to tick in Mecca—Islam’s holiest city—marking the beginning of Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims. After the inauguration of the clock, there were...
View ArticleMuslim Boycott of Bloomberg’s Interfaith Breakfast
Is the NYPD Hizzoner's private army?
View ArticleJeffress is Both Right and Wrong on Religion & Politics
Jeffress thinks it’s fine to interrogate candidates’ religious beliefs. Indeed there may be times when it is legitimate to ask whether a candidate’s religious positions would have a direct impact on...
View ArticleComing Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam
As scholar Scott Kugle knows well, to be both Muslim and gay means the possibility of having to “come out twice”—with the likely chance of encountering either homophobia or Islamophobia (or both),...
View ArticleBut Are They “The Good Muslims”?
The reason we talk about Egypt’s Salafis isn’t because we’re debating theology, at least not primarily—I don’t think we’re actually concerned with the specifics of Islamic thought. We’re more worried...
View ArticleWhen I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be
As I watch the latest news from Egypt, that the country’s parliament has been dissolved by a Mubarak-era court, I wonder: Has the revolution ended before it began?
View ArticleWhat’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?
I’m not arguing that Islamophobia is racist, or that Islamophobes are racists, because that’s not quite what’s happening. For one thing, Islamophobes embrace ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and...
View ArticleAn Agnostic Biography of the Prophet Muhammad
"The First Muslim isn’t a “message” book. If anything, since I’m agnostic, you might call it an agnostic biography. But I think many readers may be surprised at Muhammad’s deep commitment to social...
View ArticleMultifaith Weight Loss: The Problem of Fat, the Promise of Peace
When things go well, feelings of “joy” and being “moved” abound, much like the Slim Peace participants claim of their experience. It is unclear whether such events actually change how these Jews and...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher: A Muslim’s Perspective
Did you hear the one about Margaret Thatcher’s funeral?
View ArticleIslam, Essential to America?
This book is my own effort to equip myself to talk about and engage with the nation’s fastest growing religion, to offer a snapshot of one of its most influential institutions, and to tell the stories...
View ArticleFree Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers
Free Arabs describes its work as “a unique combination of investigative journalism, trendy reporting, arty activism and impertinent satire”—all enshrined in the site’s slogan: “Democracy, Secularism,...
View ArticleBurma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue
The July 1st international edition of Time magazine has added fuel to the fire with a cover photo of the fundamentalist Burmese monk Wirathu, calling him “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” Protesters took...
View ArticleJust Your Average Teenage Muslim (Shapeshifter) Girl From Jersey
Say hello to Marvel's latest superhero.
View ArticleIslam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?
How a meeting with Muslim youth leaders led me to realize I had cynically underestimated a slogan's power.
View ArticleHow Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47
California mostly defied the rightward national trend in this week’s midterm elections. The victory of Proposition...
View ArticleReligion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks
Can religious ideology really be blamed for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo? Responding to the New Yorker's George Packer and others.
View ArticleArrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response...
Authorities in Bangladesh announced yesterday that three men suspected of the brutal machete murders of...
View Article“What Kind of Islam Is That?”: Talking With Refugees From ISIS
“They believe in some strange religion, not Islam,” a Muslim refugee from the Iraq city...
View ArticleThis Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.
Will they have gluten-free treats? Is white chocolate structurally racist? Are brown M&M’s offensive? Isn’t...
View ArticlePope Francis Opens Holy Doors; Trump Calls For Closed Borders
On the eve of Pope Francis’ opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s for the Extraordinary Jubilee...
View ArticleWhen Catholics Were the Muslims
A well-known national figure tries to rally Americans to the danger posed by a poorly...
View ArticleSolidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”
Three days ago, on December 28, Asra Nomani entered the 1000+ comment stream to her Washington...
View ArticleWill SCOTUS’s New Zeal for “Neutrality” Affect its Decision on the “Muslim Ban”?
The Town of Greece v. Galloway decision in 2014—also written by Justice Kennedy—upheld a town’s practice of holding legislative prayer during public meetings, even though these prayers were...
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