New Devil’s Advocate Posting

This is islamoyankee here. Sorry for the long absence, and many thanks to my co-conspirators for making sure the blog did not lie fallow. My wife and I spawned two months ago, and the little one has been a real pleasure, but lots more work than we expected. For those of you keeping track, this is in fact the second issue in an as many years – yes, with the same wife. We’re just following the memo we got on breeding ourselves to the majority in the world (the we could be Moslems, dark-skinned people, professionals, or whatever else your…

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.

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