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June 2017

June 13, 2017

Child Marriage and Christians

Nicholas Kristoff has a column in the New York Times on child marriage -- not...

June 09, 2017

Did Bernie Sanders (attempt to) impose a religious test?

It would seem so, given the manner in which he questioned Russell Vought, President Trump’s...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

What’s the opposite of Islamism?

Secularism, apparently. What, did you think that the fears of an Islamicist threat in Europe...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

What does “Muslim-American” mean?

Would you say, of the friendly Patheos Catholic blogging team, "they're Catholic-Americans"? Would you refer...

June 2016

June 06, 2016

Should Islam abandon the Hajj?

Yeah, I know, not really any of my business whether Muslims believe that their religion...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Three questions about the Islamic Society of Baltimore – UPDATE

Question 1: are women and girls required to wear a head-covering to attend prayers, or...

January 17, 2016

The problem with the Anti-Islamism-ists

One article after the next, in such places as National Review, repeats the message: Islam...

January 09, 2016

Will Silvesternacht prove to have been a turning point for Germany?

First, the updates: Despite the seeming impossibility of the task, the Cologne police have had...

January 07, 2016

On Germany: I got nothin’ (well, not much, anyway, in terms of insights)

Germany has a problem. Turns out, the integration of 1 million + Muslim refugees is...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

There are two kinds of Islam (and further thoughts)

and, no, I don't mean Sunni vs. Shi'a. I mean an Islam of "core principles"...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

From the Library: A Battle for the Soul of Islam, by Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser

This'll be short, as I already had to return the book from the library and...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Making sense of Obama’s Op-Ed

Is Obama just stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the connection between Islamic terror groups and, well,...

February 13, 2015

More on the Chapel Hill shooter, and anger

(For context, see my post from Wednesday.)I just wrote the text below as a comment...

February 11, 2015

On the Chapel Hill shootings (first reactions) (plus updates)

(Update: see more reflections here.)For those in a cave, three people were shot in their...

February 10, 2015

Thinking about Obama’s denial of Radical Islamism, and his “anti-Crusades” speech

What does Obama really think about ISIS and radical Islam? And about the Crusades, for...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Jonah and Muhammed

Today's readings, my Catholic and liturgical-Protestant readers, will recall, included a passage from Jonah.Who doesn't...

January 17, 2015

Islam needs a “Jewish Enlightenment”

I had written on this before, as part of another post, but I wanted to...

January 16, 2015