When I interviewed the imam from my neighborhood mosque on Thursday I asked him about the sermon he delivered two weeks ago. If you recall, it was a sermon partially about gossiping, and the preacher’s point was that gossiping about an honorable woman was a Big Sin because it could ruin her life. I wondered [...]
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Honor Killing On My Mind
July 8th, 2006 — DITIB, Muslims and Islam
Pew Research Center Report on European Muslims
July 7th, 2006 — Muslims and Islam
Pew has released a new report summarizing more findings from the recent Pew Global Attitudes Project that I wrote about last month. The current report focuses on survey responses from the European Muslims who were oversampled in France, Germany, Spain, and Great Britain.
I haven’t had time to read the full report in detail, but [...]
Should we circumcise this guy, or should we finish these strawberries?
July 7th, 2006 — Humor, Muslims and Islam
I’m having trouble imagining another situation like the one I faced yesterday where the same sentence could mean two totally different things. The imam I was interviewing hollered something out to the mosque’s barber about either circumcising me and making me a Muslim or finishing off a carton of strawberries. Considering the statement came from [...]
‘How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other’ - New Survey Results
June 22nd, 2006 — Muslims and Islam
The Pew Global Attitudes Project just released a fascinating report on what Muslims and non-Muslims think about each other. If you’re curious about anti-Americanism, support for terrorism, and views on September 11 in the Muslim world, this is definitely worth checking out. The study is also really interesting because the samples in Great Britain, Spain, [...]
Manorexic Militants?
June 9th, 2006 — Muslims and Islam
The other day I read an article on Slate by Brendan O’Neill that asked whether gyms are the breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. Apparently the terrorists who carried out the 7/7 London bombings were radicalized at a local gym and the people responsible for the 3/11 Madrid bombings and the 9/11 attacks were all “fitness [...]
Is “Islamophobia” the right word?
May 31st, 2006 — Muslims and Islam
(For those of you who noticed, I edited the title of this post to reflect the real issue I’m discussing. Specifying the concept itself is another issue.)
There’s an interesting article over at Muslim Wake-Up Call on the term Islamophobia. It starts off as an examination of the word itself and then moves to a broader [...]