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March 2009

March 10, 2009

Islam and pluralism: Who speaks for Muslims?

American Muslims are not a monolithic block – they are as diverse as American Jews...

March 03, 2009

American Muslims: Thriving in America?

Headline figures from a new Gallup poll – which say that Muslims are doing better...

March 02, 2009

Foreign Policy: Leaving cards on the counter-terror table

If policymakers recognized how instances of corporate welfare facilitate terrorism at its root, several debates...

February 2009

February 25, 2009

American Muslims: Community at a crossroads

The American Muslim community cannot remain in its current reactive fire-fighting mode. It needs to...

February 13, 2009

Faith and globalization: To Blair or not to Blair

While engagement is not the only way forward (personal spirituality and character development is far...

February 09, 2009

The Muslim consumer: The overlooked $170 billion

While engaging Islam may appear complex, what remains quite simple is that there are millions...

February 05, 2009

Pluralism: Could old Islam build a new bridge to the West?

A new trend promises to heal the rift between the contemporary Muslim world and its...

February 02, 2009

Non-violent resistance: An eye for an eye?

At a time when so much innocent blood has been spilled, it is hard to...

January 2009

January 30, 2009

Guantanamo detainees: Do not put them to death

As satisfying as it would be, as soothing to the inner rage that burns in...

January 21, 2009

Gaza crisis: The moral vacuum

Although there is a cease fire in effect between Hamas and Israel, there is a...

January 20, 2009

Inauguration day: Face to faith

Quite like the hajj - where wealthy Muslims discover their piety in five-star hotels while...

January 15, 2009

Gaza demonstrations: Doth we protest too much?

In many Gaza demonstrations, the use of inflammatory rhetoric - such as the words "Nazi"...

January 09, 2009

Clash of civilizations: The great faction fiction

Neither the West nor Islam can be seen as a cultural monolith. Those of us...

January 06, 2009

Gaza crisis: Ghost dances

Hope depends on the notion that there is a bottom you can touch, a point...

January 04, 2009

Conflict in Gaza: Democracy’s moral recession

Unless we wake up and change course very soon, there may be no difference left...

January 03, 2009

Civil liberties: Better safe than free?

Even though air travel regulations have ensured a strengthened defense program, prejudicial measures targeting “brown”...

December 2008

December 29, 2008

Gaza military strikes: Business as usual

In supporting the Israeli bombing of Gaza while ignoring events older than last week, we...

December 25, 2008

Christmas: Christ in the Quran

Jesus wanted to free them from the shackles of the legalism that choked off their...

December 20, 2008

US Foreign Policy: What Obama can learn from the hajj

President Barack Hussein Obama has the chance to ally with the Islam of joy and...

December 17, 2008

Foreign Policy: Why diplomacy and sanctions don’t mix

The definition of leverage in the Bush administration was one's ability to get something for...

December 15, 2008

Holy Land Foundation: Perverse justice

Prosecuting a charity such as the Holy Land Foundation was nothing more than a means...

December 11, 2008

Interfaith: Dialogue that can change the world

The Catholic–Muslim forum that the Pope has now inaugurated can be a mechanism through which...

December 08, 2008

Hajj 2008/1429: Standing alone among millions

The Hajj was the most powerful experience I have ever had, and its sights, sounds,...

December 06, 2008

Mumbai attacks: Thinking through the debris of terror

Once again, by their concrete actions, the terrorists have demonstrated not their fidelity but their...

December 04, 2008

Interfaith work: What is God’s zip code?

Why are some Americans focusing on differences in dogma, rather than highlighting the common denominators...

December 01, 2008

Terrorism in India: The messages from Mumbai

The Saudis have succeeded in reducing terror through dialogue and re-education of youth. In Iraq,...

November 2008

November 30, 2008

Religion in schools: Gym class, then biblical studies?

I am a Muslim parent who wants his children to learn about Christianity in public...

November 24, 2008

Reviving feminism: Making a needed connection

Feminists have remained silent and unwilling to make the connection between exhibitionism of flesh and...

November 21, 2008

The Obama presidency: An internationalist president

President-elect Obama has a singular opportunity to signal a new era and send a new...

November 17, 2008

The Obama presidency: What can American Muslims expect?

Obama’s election is not the end of a road; it is only the beginning of...