Middle Class Dub: Islamophobia and Antisemitism: Same message, different minority.

National Religious Campaign Against Torture – Litany on or before September 11. You are invited to use or adapt these prayers for your congregation, community or interfaith gathering. You can use the litany in its entirety or portions of it. You can use several leaders. You might light candles or use another symbol during each line of the “Remembering our Grief” section.

What a great petition! Why are there no primary signatories who are Muslim? (This is not a dig at the organizers, I know what they went through to get representation). Also, I just looked at the additional signatures, and I’m the first Muslim to sign. Go sign. Technorati Tags: Keith Ellison

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary? | Culture | Religion Dispatches. At a loss for what to do, I thought I should go to the Muslim prayer room on campus, where students, anxious and afraid, might gather for help. The subways were closed, and cell phone service had gone out. I had no other idea how to find my friends, no idea where else to go. At the very least, I thought I had a responsibility to the Muslim students on campus. (Then again, I really had no idea what to do. I just thought I had to do something, anything, to…