The folks over at Muslims for Progressive Values have a petition up regarding domestic violence. Take a look. Sign if you are so inclined. Spread the word if it strikes you. No pun intended.
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“jihad” for dignity
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Jews, Muslims, and Orthodoxy
Over at Talk Islam, Abu Noor talks about what the face of Islam in America will look like. He picks up two issues that I have argued previously: 1. The Catholic-Protestant divide is not a useful analogy for discussing the Sunni-Shi’ah divide. 2. We do not need a Reformation in Islam. (See more recently, my talk on Muslims in the Media (part 2)) Where I have difficulty with his argument is the extension of the analogy with Judaism. I agree that the movement approach (Conservative, Reform, Orthodox, etc.) better fits the Muslim experience. We generally speak of turuq (paths), of…
On van Gogh
Now the Muslim community in the Netherlands has to pay the price, and the Muslim community around the world is once painted as religious fanatics…. Even if all the trees of the world were pens And all the oceans ink With many more oceans to fill them Even then the kalim of God could not be written For God is all-knowing and all-wise.