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July 2007

July 08, 2007

Muslim response to terror: The mother of all non-sequiturs

Tony Blair and George Bush sold the Iraq war to a jittery public by conflating...

June 2007

June 30, 2007

Canadian Muslims: The beaver and the elephant

Even though news covering America's Muslims often grabs the headlines, Canadian Muslims have become major...

June 24, 2007

Rushdie Knighthood: Flippant thoughts on Sir Salman

Perhaps those Muslims who waste their time and energy banning books and threatening authors have...

June 17, 2007

Modern Islam: The phenomenon of “designer religion”

Islam does not need to be "updated," although the thinking and practices of a great...

June 14, 2007

Honor Killing: Saving Banaz Mahmod

The case of Banaz Mahmod shows that some segregated immigrant communities exert draconian control over...

June 03, 2007

Human Rights: Evil Guantanamo, but what about Evin?

Iran's Evin prison is the sordid site where hundreds of Iranian human rights activists, philosophers,...

May 2007

May 29, 2007

Defining Muslims: Comic book realities

If the majority of Muslims say their religion is peaceful, and they live it that...

May 29, 2007

Human Rights: Righting Muslim women

The American Right follows the condescending strategy that naïve Muslim women will somehow forget the...

May 27, 2007

Extremism among US Muslims: Going after the devil

Although the findings of the recent Pew poll are generally positive, dismissing some of the...

May 20, 2007

Islam in Australia: Animal Farm Islam

Clearly all Muslims are moderate, but some are more extremely moderate (or moderately extreme) than...

May 16, 2007

Preventing homegrown terror: Seeing eye to eye on extremism

American Muslims and the US government are often on opposing sides when it comes to...

May 15, 2007

Human Rights: Criminal silence on Darfur

Because of the intra-Muslim nature of the conflict, the suffering of the Darfuri people has...

May 14, 2007

Confronting prejudice: Orthy’s wide world of profiling

Most mosque-going Muslims in America follow the Prophet's (PBUH) positive examples of activism, tolerance, philanthropy...

May 02, 2007

Relief work: Little blue envelopes: A lifeline, a promise

Every few months, thousands of blue envelopes leave from Buena Park, California, bound for homes...

May 01, 2007

A response to Rand: Building moderate American networks

With the release of the Rand Corporation's report that defines "Moderate Muslims", we now have...

April 2007

April 24, 2007

VT victim Waleed Shaalan: Let me tell you about my brother

He may not be my "blood" brother, but Waleed Shaalan, who died saving a stranger...

April 22, 2007

Radio talk shows: Why Don Imus should move to Australia

A sensitivity against racism in the US has created a backlash against "shock jocks" such...

April 17, 2007

Virginia Tech shootings: Can I breathe again?

The fact that God repeats those words - with every hardship comes ease - is...

April 15, 2007

Stem-cell research: Stem cell support in Islam (and not the Oval Office)

Unlike the decisions made on the religious convictions of US President George Bush, support for...

April 11, 2007

The Hilali affair: Has Mufti Day ended down under? (Part III)

The ethno-religious dynamic among Australian Muslims, along with politics, has compounded the potential removal of...

April 11, 2007

Barack Obama and Islam: A little religion might be a little too much

Can a presidential candidate with a Muslim heritage get elected to the highest office in...

April 10, 2007

Muslim Economies: Saudi Arabia’s schizophrenia

While economic prosperity and its attendant manifestations have come to Saudi Arabia relatively easily, religious,...

April 09, 2007

Muslim journalism: Western Muslims need a “fourth estate”

We started altmuslim.com because we could no longer tolerate the absence of an independent Muslim...

April 09, 2007

Perceptions of the US: They only hate us for our freedoms

While the world's elite dine on sumptuous meals courtesy of the White House, the number...

April 02, 2007

The Rand report: Cultivating field and house negroes?

Muslims in America and abroad must never succumb to the growing acceptance for anti-Arab prejudice...

April 01, 2007

Iraq at four: It’s not just about the troops

No one is going to help the US clean up the disaster it unilaterally created...

March 2007

March 29, 2007

Environmentalism: Is a greener Islam possible?

A substantial grassroots environmental movement amongst Muslims has yet to arise. Here's why it should.

March 25, 2007

US/Muslim world relations: The US-Pakistan tango

The tangled relationship between Washington and Islamabad has its roots in shortsighted strategies on both...

March 22, 2007

Islamic law in the West: Leave the Qur’an out of this, please

It is bad enough that there are Muslims who use the Qur'an to justify domestic...

March 21, 2007

Promoting civic involvement: Introducing unitedmuslims.org

With the launch of our new sister site unitedmuslims.org, we hope to broaden the base...