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2013-05-07T18:47:12-05:00

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Where hate speech led in Rwanda

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

And yet another… I’m reminded of American talk radio and significant swaths of the Blogosphere today. Is the word "Islamofascist" employed today with much less venom (or carelessness) than "cockroach" was in the example below? It’s enough to make this liberal buy a nice big shotgun, just in case. MEDIA: When Hate Speech Turns Deadly, Who Can Stop It? While tensions already existed due to high population density and the poisonous historical influence of Rwanda’s former coloniser, Belgium, the Hutus... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:13-05:00

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The power of fasting and women’s piety

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

And another… Some beautiful and vivid anecdotes from the life of the 9th century Sufi sheikh, Hazrat Sahl ibn Abd Allah al-Tustari. Living Islam -Tustari He narrates from `Umar ibn Wasil al-Basri that Sahl said: "My uncle once told me: `Remember Allah Who created you.’ I said: `How should I remember him?’ He replied: `Say in your heart, whenever you are alone at night, three times, without moving your tongue: Allah is with me; Allah is looking at me; Allah... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:13-05:00

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The unexpected virtures of reading Sayyid Qutb today

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

A draft that had been gathering dust… One of the texts assigned to students in the introduction to Western religion course I TAed this spring is an excerpt from Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones. My first reaction as someone committed to reform (and not the "reforms" of old-style revivalist movements) upon seeing this in the syllabus in January was frustration, as I worried that his inclusion would confuse students about the nature of contemporary Islamic thought and ultimately only close their minds... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:13-05:00

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The end is near for Akram’s Razor

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

Well, folks, I’ve never really had the time to blog in the first place and I happen to be a slow writer who tends to savagely rip up, spit upon, and then rewrite his output over and over like some unholy cross between Sisyphus and Penelope. Which means that I often find blogging aesthetically frustrating, as I hate leaving a post in an unpolished a state but rarely have time to revise it adequately. That problem is exponentially worsened by... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:13-05:00

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The joys of namaaz alfresco

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

Ever since I escaped the vain tumult of DC life, I’ve told people that its cost of living and paradoxically sterile civic and communal life achieved the psychological equivalent of the miracle of transforming lead into gold: a hopeless Yankee, big-city sophisticate who for the longest time considered any area too small to support a proper "alternative" newspaper an irremediably uncivilized backwater has been born anew as a country boy whose hearts sinks at the thought of heading into town.... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:13-05:00

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The infinite varieties of hijab

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

Doing a web search, I came across an entertaining cartoon drawn by Syrian cartoonist Puppeteer cataloging the many styles of hijab out there. Its focus is on Syria, but aside from the Kubeisya it seems pretty universal to me. And every community has its well-meaning but unnerving glarers who more or less share the aesthetic (if not the trademark coat…or the cartoon’s unibrow). [HT: My Adventures in Syria] Brilliant and wonderfully playful. I especially like the “ninja”, who’s ready to... Read more

Women in Islam

2013-05-07T18:47:13-05:00

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Jaws with fur

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

This has no bearing on anything, but I simply had to share this amazing pic from the Daily Mail of an especially intimidating tiger closing in on a hapless piece of meat underwater. Click on the picture to see it full size. [HT: AlphaPatriot] Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:13-05:00

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The sad lot of many Muslims in India today

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

A new report commissioned by the Indian government lays bare the discrimination and poverty suffered by India’s Muslim minority. Some highlights from the article (emphasis added): India, which has long prided itself as a shining example of democracy and religious-cultural pluralism, is being forced to contend with an unpleasant truth: the foundations of its claim to religious integration and harmony may be far shakier than earlier believed. This is a greatly underreported problem that I’ve mentioned here before. “The truth... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:14-05:00

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The eerie familiarity of Ehud Olmert’s problems

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

Doesn’t this report about embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have an eerily familiar ring to post-9/11 American ears? IPS : Peter Hirshberg – Noose Tightens Around Olmert It [a government report] accused him of going to war “hastily”, of lacking a “detailed military plan”, and of “a serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence.” Political leaders, public figures and most of the country’s leading columnists have repeatedly called on the prime minister to resign. But Olmert, who has... Read more

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2013-05-07T18:47:14-05:00

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Neuhaus on Europe and Muslims

Last updated on: May 7, 2013 at 6:47 pm By Svend White

The articulate and influential conservative Roman Catholic theologian Richard John Neuhaus has a very interesting and thoughtful discussion in First Things, the journal that he edits, of the debate over Muslims in Europe entitled "The Much Exaggerated Death of Europe". Neuhaus has made controversial statements about Islam and Muslims in the past and jousted a bit with Muslim organizations (especially CAIR). Which is why his evenhanded analysis of Philip Jenkins’ critique of the conventional wisdom in the "War on Terror"... Read more

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