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June 2007

June 06, 2007

The joys of namaaz alfresco

Ever since I escaped the vain tumult of DC life, I've told people that its...

June 02, 2007

The sad lot of many Muslims in India today

A new report commissioned by the Indian government lays bare the discrimination and poverty suffered...

June 01, 2007

Neuhaus on Europe and Muslims

The articulate and influential conservative Roman Catholic theologian Richard John Neuhaus has a very interesting...

May 2007

May 22, 2007

Hilfe, ich bin im Kult gefangen!

Am two thirds of the way through a 3-week summer intensive "German for Reading Knowledge"...

May 17, 2007

The Peshawar bombing & the risk of travel

A hotel in Peshawar was bombed in Pakistan and many innocent people sadly lost their...

May 17, 2007

A question to people using RSS readers

Did the post entitled "The resurrection of Willie Horton in the service of Islamophobia" appear...

May 05, 2007

Washington wants race-based visa restrictions

The US is pushing for a new visa system for visitors from the United Kingdom...

May 05, 2007

Down-home American parallels with Muslim conspiracy theories

These days, Islamophobes dwell lovingly on every example of conspiracy theories among Muslims. Nearly a...

May 04, 2007

Iran, where the fashion police are much more than a metaphor

The New York Times has an article on the surreal and utterly anachronisic phenomenon in...

May 01, 2007

A child’s hug

What is it about the hug of a small child that makes it so electric?...

April 2007

April 27, 2007

Shabana in Anthropology News

Guess what eerily familiar name I came across in the latest issue of the newsletter...

April 27, 2007

NYT: Latino immigrants injecting new “Protestant” ways into American Catholicism

An interesting NYT article on the influence of Latino immigrants on Catholicism in the US. ...

April 26, 2007

ISRA Mawlid conference in Atlanta next month

Good news for fellow Southerners (if this Yankee may be forgiven for describing himself as...

April 21, 2007

In a time of crisis, a professor teaches the ultimate lesson

An inspiring story emerges from the darkness hanging over Virginia Tech. The Holocaust survivor who...

April 20, 2007

“Fight Club” meets “Romper Room”

To call this sickening just scratches the surface of this perversion. Women laughed as they...

April 19, 2007

What’s “Korean” about the Virginia Tech killer?

A snippet from my post on Eteraz.org, wherein I argued that implicitly linking the Virginia...

April 17, 2007

Richard Gere gets some action in India

I generally don't pay attention to the comings and goings of the man-children that inhabit...

April 16, 2007

A horrific massacre on a Virginia campus

If you haven't heard, the worst shooting rampage in American history occurred early on Monday...

April 12, 2007

Coming to Lahore, Virginia: Lahore, Pakistan

Some schemes are so sublimely bizarre and harebrained that I suspect the universe's sense of...

April 08, 2007

A new reason to dread going to the dentist

According to this report in Libération, a British dentist has had his license revoked for...

March 2007

March 31, 2007

Mischief incarnate

Okay, I can't take it no more. Nazar shmazar... But to the be on the...

March 31, 2007