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February 2008

February 24, 2008

My latest at Religion Dispatches: “Comparing Serbian Unrest to Muslim Unrest”

Religion Dispatches - Comparing Serbian Unrest to Muslim Unrest Things are getting out of hand...

February 23, 2008

My latest at RD: “Blessed Be the Warmakers”

Posted some reflections to Religion Dispatches on the notion of Hell and rightwing conspiracy theories...

February 14, 2008

My latest at Religion Dispatches: “Contraband Valentine” in Saudi Arabia

Religion Dispatches: Contraband Valentine Upon reading about the hullabaloo in Saudi Arabia to prevent the...

February 14, 2008

The plight of widows around the globe

There's a reason the Quran thunders so chillingly against those who take advantage of widows...

February 13, 2008

Remember, Children: Cthulhu Loathes You

Spent lunch yesterday locked in an impassioned debate about various questions of Star Trek dogma...

February 06, 2008

New blog: “Madrasa Reforms in India”

A promising new blog by Yoginder Sikand, a noted scholar on Islam and Sufism in...

January 2008

January 21, 2008

Bill Clinton is taking Obama to task for centrism?

Am I imagining it, or is the man who orchestrated the disastrous rightward shift of...

January 17, 2008

Snow in the South

Last night, we in small Southern University Town experienced the first dusting of snow seen...

December 2007

December 20, 2007

Eid mubarak

Eid mubarak to those of you celebrating the holiday today and belated Eid greetings to...

December 16, 2007

A whole lotta a dubious ijtihad going on

Don't have time to say more, but I see that I, however implausibly and in...

December 08, 2007

CSM on Sufism as alternative to modern Muslim ideologies

The Christian Science Monitor has a good if a smidgen breezy piece on the potential...

December 02, 2007

Visitors from Brass Crescent

If you're arriving from the the Brass Crescent page and this your first visit, kindly...

December 02, 2007

My picks for the Brass Crescent

With customary apologies and compliments to runners up, here here are my picks. BEST BLOG: ...

November 2007

November 30, 2007

4th Annual Brass Crescent Awards

It's time for the 4th annual Brass Crescent awards. Time to vote for your favorite...

November 07, 2007

The Greater Jihad

Please keep your sister Baraka in your prayers.

November 03, 2007

Halal fishing methods and the environment

Speaking of Islam and the environment, here's an example of progressive religious leadership at the...

October 2007

October 12, 2007

Reluctant “Eid Mubarak” and looking for info on Eid in Atlanta

A reluctant (but very warm and sincere) Eid mubarak. Reluctant because I'm finding myself forced...

October 10, 2007

Forget Pig Latin…try Cockney rhyming slang

Call me chicken oriental, but this septic wants to speak in Cockney rhyming slang. It...

October 10, 2007

Those were the days

From Willard Oxtoby's World Religions: Western Traditions, page 228:Because of the political implications, the population...

September 2007

September 13, 2007

Ramadan and Rosh Hoshannah greetings

Ramzan mubarak to the Saracens out there, and a belated L'shana tova to fellow Semites...

August 2007

August 09, 2007

Lars von Trier’s “Medea”

Watched Danish film director Lars von Trier's 1987 masterpiece "Medea" yesterday afternoon. What an arresting...

July 2007

July 30, 2007

Every once in a while an urban legend comes momentarily true

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. A honest to goodness case of whites being disenfranchised...

July 30, 2007

To blog or not to blog

Or more precisely: How to blog without wasting eons of time you don't have to...

July 26, 2007

The end of tourism in Vermont

Grew up in Boston, but lived for a while in the Ying to Vermont's Yang,...

July 19, 2007

The road to paradise is paved with chocolate

Faith and Theology has uncovered the secret of European civilization, and our lack thereof: chocolate....

June 2007

June 27, 2007

Desi brides, non-desi grooms

There's an article in Nirali Magazine called "The United Colors of Desi" on South Asian...

June 09, 2007

Where hate speech led in Rwanda

And yet another... I'm reminded of American talk radio and significant swaths of the Blogosphere...

June 09, 2007

The power of fasting and women’s piety

And another... Some beautiful and vivid anecdotes from the life of the 9th century Sufi...

June 09, 2007

The unexpected virtures of reading Sayyid Qutb today

A draft that had been gathering dust... One of the texts assigned to students in...

June 06, 2007

The end is near for Akram’s Razor

Well, folks, I've never really had the time to blog in the first place and...