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Approaching the Ramadan fast for the first time. (Link courtesy of The Velveteen Rabbi.)

Religion and Domestic Violence

I have criticized one of On Faith’s recent panelists on Aasiya Zubair’s murder as ignoring violence in his own tradition to make it seem as though DV is a Muslim-only problem. Thankfully, another panelist points out that it exists in Christianity, and while she argues there is a problem in religious interpretation, it’s not a problem in religion. A point I try to make in conversation with Katha Pollitt.

Somebody gets it

A Boston Globe op-ed and the variety and flexibility of shari’ah. It’s not what it’s called, it’s what it says.