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February 2014

February 16, 2014

CSM cover story on American Muslims

Given all the attention that Islam and Muslims get today and all anxiety that exists...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

The pros and cons of White House iftars in the Obama era

An interesting debate is going on in Muslim corners of the Blogosphere and social media...

January 2013

January 13, 2013

Conspiracy theories and “mainstream” criticism of Islam in American politics

I listened to a very stimulating discussion of the underlying nature of conspiracy theories, on...

January 13, 2013

Egyptian secularists and the “Innocence of Muslims” brouhaha

There's a fascinating piece on the Columbia Journalism Review's "Behind the News" blog exploring some...

December 2012

December 25, 2012

Yuletide musings on the Ramadan shutdown

A belated Merry Christmas to those playing with new toys today. Growing up a Muslim...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Haroon Mughal shows how it done on CNN

Haroon Mughal was on CNN yesterday eloquently providing some much needed context to the sensationalistic...

September 13, 2012

New investigative report on H. Rap Brown

The digital news outlet that serves American Muslims Illume has just published an exhaustive and...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

Innovative upcoming online course on Islamophobia

A very interesting online happening is coming up soon: An online course on the rife...

July 16, 2012

Are you doing your part to support the few media that support us?

If you didn't catch it, the leading progressive political magazine in America, The Nation, recently...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Publishers Weekly review of All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim

Greetings from Lahore, where I and the family are currently visiting in-laws and trying to...

April 2012

April 25, 2012

New website for “All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim”

There's a new website for the anthology of reflections on being a Muslim man in...

April 12, 2012

Essay on Malcolm X in Claremont Review

There's a very interesting essay on Malcolm X in the conservative Claremont Review of Books....

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Praying to which god, I wonder…

As a Muslim, I find it hard to put to words how obscene and revolting...

October 2011

October 08, 2011

Marriage, motherhood, & the Nuclear Option

There's a wonderful post on Imam Suhaib Webb's website on the need for the Muslim...

September 2011

September 09, 2011

American Muslim statement on the 10th anniversary of 9/11

Wajahat Ali has posted (after, characteristically, spearheading the drafting of) a statement signed by a...

July 2011

July 10, 2011

Call for Contributions: “I Speak for Myself: American Men on Being Muslim”

Sorry if you got this twice, but I want to make sure it's in everybody's...

June 2011

June 12, 2011

Captain Hook becomes mayor in the UK

No, I'm not talking about that moronic comic book zealot, Abu Hamza Al-Masri. (Sorry if...

April 2011

April 16, 2011

Timely report on French women and the veil

A very timely study on Muslim women and the veil in France has just been...

March 2011

March 14, 2011

Rabbis speaking out against Islamophobia

These public statements are really inspiring. If you're Muslim, please spread the word about this,...

March 03, 2011

Who’s the Fifth Column again?

This clip of bigoted vitriol from a protest against a Muslim fundraiser in California is...

September 2009

September 17, 2009

On the myth that the Quran forbids friendship with non-Muslims

Since I'm blogging up a storm tonight, I direct your attention to this useful discussion...

September 17, 2009

Rednecks and the Eid Stamp

Sabiwabi pointed out a new and sure-fire way of gauging redneck-itude.* Being up in arms about...

July 2009

July 22, 2009

Newsweek on the myth of “Eurabia”

There's an incisve analysis in the current issue of Newsweek of the flawed assumptions that go...

September 2008

September 21, 2008

Sherman Jackson on WDM, divisions among Black Muslims, and the road ahead

As a commenter astutely noted, not all Black Muslims in this country looked to W.D....

September 14, 2008

A touching tribute and a much needed plea for humility

Islamic comedian (and, no, that's not an oxymoron, or at least shouldn't be) Azhar Usman...

September 12, 2008

Round-up of coverage of Imam W.D. Mohammed’s passing

Here are, in no particular order, some recent blog postings and articles in the MSM...

September 11, 2008

Imam W.D. Mohammed has left us

If you haven't heard, I'm sorry to inform you that a great American leader has...

March 2008

March 12, 2008

The number of Muslims in Congress has doubled

Indiana just elected a Muslim to Congress in a special election.Second Muslim elected to Congress...

March 10, 2008

Hank Hanegraaff on “Misconceptions about Muslims”

Came across some refreshingly evenhanded and principled comments on Islam from an evangelical Christian perspective ...

January 2008

January 24, 2008

If the FBI could conceal evidence in order to paint MLK as dangerous…

A few months ago I blogged about a disturbing case in the 1960s that has...