A Meditation on Ali

The Changing World. What does it mean to be a Muslim in the U.S. in the post-9/11 world, and why are so many new converts to Islam – women?

Nice slide show. Goat farming, with an Islamic touch.

LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches. LGBT Muslims, the report notes, are dealing with many of the same kinds of questions that LGBT Christians have been dealing with for decades—such as the authority and interpretation of scripture. In addition, conversations within Islam in America are complicated by a virulent Islamophobia that has flourished in the decade since the 9/11 attacks. As scholar Hussein Rashid, an RD associate editor, observes: “The intersection of sexual, religious, racial, and immigrant identities entail multiple types of marginalization.”