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January 2008

January 18, 2008

Religion Dispatches – “UK Muslims & the ‘War on Christmas'”

Have only written one piece so far, but I'm am now pleased to call myself...

January 18, 2008

The menace of ‘Islamofascism” in Europe, small potatoes beside the resurgence of real Fascism

There's an insightful article in the January 7, 2008 issue of The Nation by Gary...

January 12, 2008

Yallahrup Færgeby

What would you get if you crossed the early 1990s urban themed variety show "In...

October 2007

October 26, 2007

My encyclopedia entries are out

Well, judging by the fact that Shabana and I just got our modest checks for...

February 2007

February 28, 2007

Free yourselves, Muslim women!

I don't have time to comment at length, but check out this gem of neo-colonial...

February 28, 2007

Reflections on the Danish cartoons a year later

Danish journalist Jakob Illeborg has penned a balanced and insightful reflection in The Guardian Unlimited...

February 08, 2007

France as model for Muslim/non-Muslim dialogue

Anthropologist John Bowen argues in the San Francisco Chronicle for the unfashionable view that, even...

February 03, 2007

Umar Lee on history of Salafi dawah

Check out Umar Lee's "The rise and fall of the ’salafi dawah’ in the US".Haven't...

January 2007

January 31, 2007

A Brahmin Who Sent a Muslim for Haj (ARAB NEWS)

A heartwarming reminder that not all Muslim/Hindu relations in India today are riven by strife...

January 31, 2007

L.A. Eight vindicated

I just posted over at Eteraz.org on the "L.A. Eight" case. Eteraz.org || LA Eight's...

January 15, 2007

When outsiders forget their place

I expect the occasional troll to drop by, especially given how I openly mock some...

January 15, 2007

Am catching up on news from Denmark and came across an amusing report in the...

January 13, 2007

“Little Mosque on the Prairie”

In his Defense of Poetry, Shelley famously declared poets the "unacknowledged legislators of the world". ...

January 02, 2007

Barelvis and Deobandis, still takfir-crazy after all these years

Half a century ago, observers guffawed at the spectacle of Barelvis and Deobandis excommunicating each...

December 2006

December 25, 2006

The influence of Christmas on Hannukah and so much else

Came across some intriguing observations and historical analogies in the Jewish Virtual Library concerning Hannukah...

November 2006

November 20, 2006

Tariq Ramadan and this adminstration’s need to dehumanize Muslims

L'affaire Tariq Ramadan lives on. [HT: American Leftist]. Why I'm Banned in the USA -...

November 11, 2006

Muslims, the new “natives”

Am writing a brief reaction paper to the chapter in Daniel Pals' (highly recommended) Eight...

October 2006

October 22, 2006

Where oh where is my local Eid ki namaz?

Am I the only one who's sick of mosques that don't bother to announce the...

October 08, 2006

The most “unclean” of all: the Muslim who treats people like dogs

A "Muslim" cabbie in the UK has made headlines (and blogosphere Islamophobes' day) by refusing...

September 2006

September 27, 2006

The Pope and the Muslims

Given all the work I have to do, I probably shouldn't be blogging, but I've...

September 22, 2006

Ralph Peters: “Islam-haters” are the real 5th column

Do read Ralph Peters' courageous declaration of war on the real cancer within the American...

September 20, 2006

CSM on American Buddhism

There's an interesting article in The Christian Science Monitor on the growth of Buddhism on...

September 15, 2006

July 2006

July 31, 2006

Why Muslims don’t protest peacefully like civilized Westerners

A comrade commented on my post about the controversy among German Catholics over the "Popetown"...

July 30, 2006

German Catholics offended by “Simpsons”-style cartoon of Vatican

German Catholics call for censorship of seemingly considerably less offensive portrayal of Pope than the...

July 09, 2006

“Europe’s Mosque Hysteria”

A sober and insightful discussion of Europe's "Muslim Problem" and the real significance of current...

July 08, 2006

Europe fiddles as Gaza crumbles under Israel’s siege

Jonathan Steele in The Guardian provides an antidote to the blindly pro-Israeli sophistry we're hearing...

July 07, 2006

The problem with “Muslim-only” days: Balancing assimilation with natural social divisions

Recently, news broke in the United Kingdom of a "Muslim-only" day [Reluctant HT: Islamophobic] being...

June 2006

June 27, 2006

Fishy “Muslims” caught in the Seas of David

In a first in the post-9/11 political era, Muslim leaders in Miami have responded to...