Day: December 14, 2011

Lowe’s pulls TV ads – and gives a Christmas gift to Target et al | Wajahat Ali | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. The decision by Lowe’s, behemoth chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores, to pull its advertising from TLC’s reality TV show “All-American Muslim,” ceded to the bigotry, fear-mongering and paranoia of a deluded minority whose divisive ideology poisons America’s cherished history of inclusiveness and pluralism.

And don't forget Wajahat Ali's Understanding Sharia Law. KARAMAH Launches Online Symposium on Shari’ah and Religious Freedom « Karamah. To complement these events, KARAMAH has compiled this online symposium, which showcases articles on the anti-Shari‘ah movement by various scholars, students and professionals. The articles are rich and diverse in their perspectives, addressing this movement from a variety of lenses: Some dispel myths about Shari‘ah and explain it from within the Islamic tradition, while others examine this movement from a civil rights perspective. A few articles reveal how the authors have been personally affected by this movement, sharing very open and…