Delightful. Austrian schoolgirls set their Muslim classmate’s hijab ablaze. (Hat-tip Yakoub Islam)
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My new post at Religion Dispatches: The deadly burqini.
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A walking headscarf and murder in broad daylight. Discussion of the murder of Marwa Sherbini at Religion Dispatches.
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Satirical commentary on the Sarzoky-veil affair by me at Religion Dispatches.
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Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, a leader among leaders, returned to his Creator September 9, 2008. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun.
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Academics protest jailing of 28-year old Muslim student, Syed Fahad Hashmi, graduate of City University of New York’s Brooklyn College. Jeanne Theoharis, an associate professor of political science, recalls that Hashmi took great interest in civil liberties post-9/11, and she has started a campaign to “Free Fahad.” Al-Muhajiroun and al-Qaeda are named in the case, as is Junaid Babar, whose testimony appears to form much of the case against Hashmi.
Allie Grasgreen writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education:
“Ms. Theoharis and others who call for Mr. Hashmi’s release say that his arrest was politically motivated. They point out that he has no prior criminal history (Mr. Bergen, the CNN analyst, deemed that point irrelevant) and they say that because the government informant upon whom much of the case against Mr. Hashmi is built has served as a witness in multiple cases in exchange for a reduced prison sentence, the validity of that testimony is diminished.
“Mr. Robin sees his former student’s ordeal as a concrete example of topics they discussed in class together, such as the effect of the Patriot Act and how the political climate has changed following the September 11 attacks.”
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Thanks to anti-vaccination militants, an eight-month old baby girl in Pakistan has polio, the most dangerous and most contagious strain.
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Longer, more angsty, and more insider version of the article “It’s not raining eligible Muslim men” at Koonj: “Single, Muslim, and female: a gendered forecast of the American Muslim community.”
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Extremist women want options other than staying at home. My latest post at Religion Dispatches.
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Vanilla-white (and other) Obama supporters embrace their Hussein side.
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Pakistani Harvard student Samad Khurram makes waves by refusing academic award from US Ambassador.
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Please welcome Lahore Nama. This young blog, brainchild of the talented and thoughtful Raza Rumi and his contributors examine the fascinating city of Lahore – historically, religiously, anthropologically, critically and aesthetically.
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What is the Harvard gym controversy about? I argue that it’s about patriarchy not purdah.