Skip to content
Header Image

islamicate

islam doesn't speak, muslims do | "the ink of the scholar is worth more than the blood of the martyr" – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

  • Home
  • 2011
  • December
  • 16
  • A Closer Look at the Term ‘Islamist’ – The Takeaway

A Closer Look at the Term ‘Islamist’ – The Takeaway

December 16, 2011 islamoyankee

A Closer Look at the Term 'Islamist' – The Takeaway.

Playwright, attorney and commentator Wajahat Ali joins the program to help us pinpoint how the term "Islamist" is used and misused. He's also the lead writer of a Center for American Progress report titled "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America."

Politics

Post navigation

Muslims Helped Legitimize Lowes’ Decision to Pull Ads From All-American Muslim | Religion Dispatches
An appeal to the American Arab and Muslim Communities | The American Muslim (TAM)

Related Posts

Ramadan in Murfreesboro, Tenn. – NYTimes.com

Ramadan in Murfreesboro, Tenn. – NYTimes.com. Id al-Fitr — the end of Ramadan’s monthlong fasting and sacrifice — has turned out to be an especially joyous holiday for the Islamic American community of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Hundreds of worshipers were finally able to occupy their new suburban mosque this month, prevailing in their constitutional right after a two-year assault of bigotry, persistent court challenges, arson and a bomb threat at the construction site.

Interesting Petition to help end #torture

Lifted from comments about teaching Geneva Conventions in US schools.

A Very Small Man

Many people are clearly and understandably incensed by Vice President Cheney’s on-going media campaign advocating state-sponsored torture and his making what appear to be all sorts of false claims about how effective his torture policies were. But though it’s maddening and offensive, I’m more on the side of being heartened or at least glad to see the exposure he’s getting — not so much because it’s politically damaging to the Republicans, which is probably true, but because he’s (as is his puppet daughter) showing and can’t help but show more and more about who he is. [From A Very Small…

Persistence

  • Commemoration
  • Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism
  • Jews, Muslims, and Orthodoxy
  • My God Hates More than Your God
  • On Being a Conservative-Liberal Muslim
  • The Discussion I Want to Have
  • The New Mecca
  • What is Shi'ism?

Archives

Categories

Copyright © 2025 islamicate | Slick Blog by Ascendoor | Powered by WordPress.