Devil’s Advocate: Rabbi Lerner is Wrong about Rahm

Critical Questions Series 2: Hussein Rashid | Bulletin for the Study of Religion. In a more popular context, we see the ways in which religious illiteracy, historical amnesia, and political expedience have combined to create Islamophobic narratives informed by knowledge produced in the academy.

Thanks to Rachel over at Velveteen Rabbi, I was made aware of Blog Day 2005. (BTW, Rachel, thanks for the constant care and feeding of this blog.) Rachel, Demi, and Jake were some of the first non-Muslim blogs I added to my aggregator (NetNewsWire Lite), and got me to start up – the desperately needing to be updated – ahl al-kitāb list on the sidebar. This blog has become more political than I’d initially imagined, but I suppose most of what I’ve been doing has revolved around the politicization of Islam. As a result, some of my picks for new…