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November 2007

November 09, 2007

Waterboarding: Drowning for justice

Why on earth is there any doubt that waterboarding - basically a form of drowning...

November 08, 2007

Extreme literature: War of words

Once again, scary literature has been found at Islamic bookstores and mosques. If Muslims continue...

November 05, 2007

Crisis in Pakistan: A coup within a coup

Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency both derails the latest effort to usher in democracy and...

November 01, 2007

Remembering "Crazy" John Ilhan: Merging faith and business

For many Australians, coverage of "Crazy" John Ilhan's funeral at a prominent mosque will be...

October 2007

October 30, 2007

Peace Corps Volunteers: Goodbye, South Africa

In this blog excerpt, Omar Ahmed, a now-former US Peace Corps volunteer, reflects on two...

October 19, 2007

Karachi suicide attacks: Not the same Pakistan

Violence and death are no strangers to Karachi. Yet, this act, come as it did...

October 19, 2007

Confronting extremism: What happened to “good Islam”?

I reject this "Islam" of carnage, irrationality, social disorder and murder. I accept an Islam...

October 14, 2007

Religion and education: On the inclusiveness of public schools

Looking beyond the resistance to religious accommodation in public schools, one might find a means...

October 08, 2007

Community leader Ilyas Ba-Yunus: In praise of “Uncle Phil” and his generation

The passing away of MSA founder Ilyas Ba-Yunus reminds us that the generation gap between...

October 01, 2007

Bangladesh cartoons: Pinprick cartoons & blasphemous cats

In Bangladesh, a cartoon controversy says more about the country's political polarisation than it does...

September 2007

September 27, 2007

Ahmadinejad at Columbia: Bollinger’s belligerence

The grandstanding of Columbia University President Lee Bollinger against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a...

September 26, 2007

Iran and the Holocaust: Why Ahmedinejad exploits the Holocaust

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial comments about the Holocaust speak volumes about the state of...

September 23, 2007

France and America: A new poodle and a new war?

Is France's Nicholas Sarkozy aiming to replace Britain's Tony Blair as America's foreign policy partner...

September 20, 2007

Scandinavian Cartoon Controversy: With friends like these, who needs enemies?

The fuss over new cartoons from Scandinavia leave Muslims stuck between a distorted reading of...

September 17, 2007

Canadian Muslims: Veiled voting

Canadian politicians have seized an issue concerning the right of niqab-wearing Muslims to vote. Unfortunately,...

September 15, 2007

Reporting about Islam: How not to cover Ramadan

The way that journalists often cover Islam is predictable, and doesn't paint an accurate picture...

September 13, 2007

Ramadan notes: Empathy, subtraction, and the ride

If Ramadan were a proofreader’s pen, it would stop at “Muslim” (the professional adherent) and...

September 11, 2007

Heroes of 9/11: Clearing Salman’s name

Six years after September 11, 2001, we would do well to remember a particular victim,...

August 2007

August 31, 2007

Islamic pluralism in the West: Discord and the hope of unity

The mass media and the Internet have changed the way in which religious teachings are...

August 28, 2007

Catholic-Muslim relations: The Pope offers lessons for Islamic reform

The Pope is one of the few Western leaders who is recognized as legitimate by...

August 23, 2007

Shias in Mecca: Unwelcome pilgrims

For many Shias, an attack on Shia umrah pilgrims two weeks ago recalls a painful...

August 14, 2007

India-Pakistan Partition: Lines on a map

Sixty years after the partition that created India and Pakistan, Irfan Yusuf explores why some...

August 10, 2007

Defining sharia: Faithful questions about Islamic law

The purpose of the Sharia is to promote justice and the common good. In a...

August 07, 2007

Election 2008: Wild frontiers of our localized world

Last week, Barack Obama delivered a major speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for...

July 2007

July 31, 2007

War with Iran: America’s “single-country challenge”

Shirin Saeidi, of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII), speaks to...

July 31, 2007

Labor & Economy: The tower that slaves built

Skyscrapers and fancy malls exist all around the world, but the Gulf States are unique...

July 29, 2007

Opposing terrorism: What would marches against extremism achieve?

If Muslim-Americans were able to pull off a grand protest, would it curtail the rise...

July 23, 2007

Suicide Terrorism: Lives less worthy?

Perhaps the world can come to realise that the real war is between those who...

July 20, 2007

Suicide Terrorism: The betrayal of suicide bombers

Getting to heaven is tough work, and it requires a lifetime of struggle against human...

July 13, 2007

Pakistan's Lal Masjid: The cult and the crisis

The Lal Masjid debacle raises the question of what exactly the relationship is between Islam...