"I don't want anybody to persecute any religion including Islam, but...
On NPR this morning there was a piece about Tennessee's Republican Governor, Bill Haslam, who hired a Muslim woman to his staff and has received criticism from some of his constituents for doing so,...
View Article"He's a Muslim" is an attempt to subvert the First Amendment and Article Six...
A lot of people believe that the smears about President Obama being a radical Muslim are rooted in badly veiled racism. I would argue, though, that it's rooted in something equally insidious. To my...
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Pamela Geller's Blog Solicited Funds For anti-Muhammad Film
[image, right: Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, whose nonprofit Media For Christ produced [see 1, 2, 3] the inflammatory anti-Muhammad video trailer "Innocence of the Muslims", and anti-Islamic activist...
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Loose lips sink ships
In 1941 and 1942, the Allies were losing hundreds of ships and millions of tons of cargo to German U-boats in the North Atlantic. With England at risk of starvation, the United States faced the real...
View ArticleIslam, Violence, and the West: It's not the Video, Stupid
Originally posted on the Columbia University Press blogIt may be tempting to watch the unrest unfolding in parts of the Muslim world and wonder what real harm could there be in a cheesy “desert saga,”...
View ArticleStirring the pot: Huckabee releases Islamophobic song
Honestly, can't you just hear them gleefully gearing up for a war between the West and Islam?The latest entry?A song posted on Mike Huckabee's website, a "parody" done to the tune of Billy Joel's "We...
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Fundaloons bring anti-Islamic posters to NYC Subways
Apparently it was not stupid enough to incite a riot so Embassy staff are murdered by angry mobs of outraged Muslims. A similar group will bring their insults to the nice safe uncrowded environs of the...
View ArticleNouman Ali Khan On What The Quran Says On Defaming Muhammed
Juan Cole on his website presents a video by Nouman Ali Khan in which he says the Qur'an tells Muslims not to react violently when someone attacks or defames the Prophet Mohammed.
View ArticleMuslim Peace - The News Story You Aren't Getting
Perhaps 30,000 citizens of Benghazi marched, peacefully, through the streets today. Their demands? A civil society.It's on Al-Jazeera, but not on FOX, MSNBC, CNN, or even the BBC. Surely this mass...
View ArticleFrom Film to Protests: the Publicization of "Innocence of Muslims" in Egypt
Quite a bit of digital ink has been spilt concerning the production of the film and trailer known, at varied points in its history, as Desert Warrior(s) / Innocence of B[i]n Laden / Innocence of...
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As Yom Kippur approaches - Speak out against Pamela Gellers Bigoted Ad
Cross-Posted at The Progressive Zionist.So as the day winds out and it is time for me to prepare for Yom Kippur, I want to use this time prior to my reflection to speak out against what I consider...
View Articlea Muslim American meets Paul Ryan
Last week, I met Paul Ryan at an apple farm.My conversation with him was pretty brief:I was wearing my traditional topi headcap and I have a fair amount of beard on me, so it was rather obvious that I...
View ArticleRomney/Ryan Foreign Policy? "Lewis Doctrine" Redux
"Lewis Doctrine," you're likely asking? "What the hell is that?" I'm referring, of course, to the neoconservative's court-historian, Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at...
View ArticleWhy should Muslim Americans vote for President Obama? 10 reasons to get out...
(Disclosure: I am the Editor of MuslimsForObama.com)As a supporter of Barack Obama, I have laid out my own personal reasons for supporting Barack Obama. But some Muslim Americans are not convinced,...
View ArticleCongratulations Republicans! No really
This is not snark. There really is something to congratulate Republicans about today. They ran a historic ticket, something that has never been seen in the US before from a major party.For the first...
View ArticleMan denied service at Louisiana Subway for offense of being Muslim
Well, this is certainly an ugly story.A retired 63-year-old U.S. citizen of South Asian heritage who lives in New Orleans reported to CAIR that on November 21, 2012, he and his wife stopped at the...
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Racist Pamela Geller at it Again
Cross Posted at The Progressive ZionistFirst it was calling Muslims and Arabs "Savages" and during that time I got push back from the lunatic fringe and racist droolers who said accused me of racism...
View Article'Islamist' As Coded Language
Recently, the Associated Press added a new word into their influential industry Stylebook. That word? “Islamist”.According to the AP Stylebook the definition of Islamist is –(A) supporter of government...
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Buzzfeed, Monkeys, & Iranians in Space
On Monday morning, Buzzfeed’s Ryan Broderick posted an article titled “This Is The Terrified Monkey That Iran Shot Into Space.” The article only amounted to a little over a hundred words – that’s...
View ArticleThe Five Pillars of Islam: Street Prophets Coffee Hour
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Coffee Hour on Street Prophets. This is our communities’ open thread where we can talk about what’s happening in our lives, our thoughts on current events, and...
View ArticleIslam 101: Shahadah
Recently, Ojibwa posted a diary that looked at the Five Pillars of Islam. The descriptions for each of the five pillars were necessarily brief; however, I thought I would expand on each of the pillars...
View ArticleAcceptance & Equality [Revival of The Ummah]
ACCEPTANCE & EQUALITY III [Revival of The Ummah] By Sullee JIn order to revive the Ummah, we must abide by the sunnah. In order to revive the Ummah, we must purely rely on the vibes from Allahumma....
View ArticleIslam 101: Salat
This is the second in a series of posts about the Five Pillars of Islam. The first diary, about shahadah, can be found here.Salat (sing., salah) are the formal prayers that are required of Muslims...
View ArticleIslam 101: Zakat
This is the third in a series of posts about the Five Pillars of Islam. The first diary was about shahadah, and the second about salat.Zakat is the formal giving of charity in Islam. It is related to...
View ArticleIslam 101: Jihad
This diary was originally written as a response to a comment on my Ask a Muslim diary over at Street Prophets. I decided to cross-post this diary here because I was asked once, in the past, to write a...
View ArticleRohingya people of Myanmar Burma
I'm reading a Twitter feed today spiced with horrific news and images out of Burma. That Neo-Nazis are committing genocide against Muslims there. And the more I find out the worse it gets.The ethnic...
View ArticleAn Anti-Theist's Defense of Islam and Why Richard Dawkins is a Bigot
I am not merely an atheist, but an anti-theist. I believe that not only are all religions inherently flawed and destructive institutions, but that the concept of a god or gods limits human progress....
View ArticleMuslims Did Not Bomb The Boston Marathon
NOTE: I wrote this last Thursday, before the Boston Police Department and Massachusetts State Police had their standoff with the murderous Tsarnaev brothers. I've decided not to change it to reflect...
View ArticleExamining Islamophobia and Xenophobia in American Society, Part 2: Cultural...
Following the terror that occurred last week, I've seen so many despicable comments on the internet and on television that demonize Islam, Muslims, and the "liberals" that "defend Islam." When I was in...
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Niall Ferguson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Right-Wing Power Couple
Earlier today we learned about homophobic Harvard professor Niall Ferguson's blistering attack on John Maynard Keynes. Keynes was wrong, according to Professor Ferguson, because he was gay and talked...
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HOW TO WINK AT A MUSLIM
A Tennessee commissioner's Facebook post, suggesting that Muslims are best viewed from behind a double-barreled shotgun, has frightened local residents and prompted calls for an apology.However, Coffee...
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Bill Maher Schooled By His Own Guest For His Ignorant Statements on Muslim...
.I am not always in agreement with Glenn Greenwald simply because sometimes he takes the Liberal or Progressive viewpoint to the level of silliness like some on the Right. His analysis in general...
View ArticleThe Bigger Terror: the Islamophobic Backlash
My heart is in my throat. For the last few years (as I'll demonstrate below) I've seen real hatred take root in both Europe and the US. As I wrote a Daily Beast piece about the horrific killing of an...
View ArticleMurdoch's Mouthpiece: "Almost All Terrorists are Muslims"
Following my diary on Saturday worrying about the depth of the Islamophobic backlash to the Woolwich attack which killed Drummer Rigby, Rupert Murdoch's chief lieutenant in the UK - the veteran...
View ArticleIslam 101: Sawm
This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Five Pillars of Islam. The first diary was about shahadah, the second about salat, and the third about zakat.Sawm is the required fasting during the...
View ArticlePork laced bullets, for suckas
When I read this story two quotes came to mind. The first:There's a sucker born every minute...and two to take 'em!- maybe P.T. Barnum It seems a few [ignorant] "patriots" (their self description, not...
View ArticleRamadan Love From A Christian
In the weeks after 911, I was attending college and saw that my Muslim sisters were noticeably absent from school. So I began to wear a head scarf in solidarity with them. But I learned quickly about...
View ArticleLA Times asks, "Oh, for goodness' sake, will this never stop?"
Originally published in Tikkun Daily |The Los Angeles Times editorial board has finally had enough. Enough of what, you ask?Enough of exemplary American citizens being falsely smeared for the crime of...
View Articlea Muslim American agenda for Justice
This past week, there were two Iftars in Washington DC, one by the State Department and the other at the White House. I was honored to be invited to the former but was unable to attend. What surprised...
View ArticleA Muslim writes about Jesus?
The link is Gawker, but there is video.Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether the obtuseness of Fox News is real or feigned. This is an interview with Reza Aslan, primarily about his new book,...
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Open thread for night owls: On 'Zealot' and hubris and who owns Jesus
Tasbeeh Herwees is a freelance writer and producer in Los Angeles. She is also the co-founder of Kifah Libya, an independent, online magazine about Libyan political, social and cultural affairs.at...
View ArticleFederal judge tosses out Oklahoma anti-sharia amendment
Back in 2010, Oklahomans voted overwhelmingly (70 percent!) to amend their state constitution to ban the consideration of Sharia law. Well, late Thursday, a federal judge in Oklahoma City threw it out...
View ArticleMuslims in America.
A few months ago, President Obama in a well publicized speech encouraging toleration mentioned in general the historical contributions to our country of individuals, Americans, professing the Muslim...
View ArticleMuslims Need Not Apply
That's the title of a report by the ACLU of Southern California which exposes yet another violation of the rule of law (to say nothing of fair play) associated with the endless 'war on terror': since...
View ArticleA New Kind of McCarthyism
In her now-infamous interview of Reza Aslan (July 26, Fox News) Lauren Green raised the absurd suggestion that Mr. Aslan, an accomplished Biblical scholar, was disqualified from writing about...
View ArticleVirginia Beach city council approves mosque despite bigots and their slander
This evening, in a vote of 8-1 with Councilman Bill Bigot DeSteph the lone vote against (more on Bill the Bigot below), Virginia Beach City Council approved plans for the construction of a mosque....
View ArticleMy Stupid State: History Textbook Acknowledges Islam, FL GOP Goes ApeS&*t
#38 for My Stupid State series. H/t SamLoomis. Volusia County is a large swing county here in Florida. As usual, there are more registered Dems than GOP, but it tends to elect conservatives. The...
View ArticleWhy don't gun owners condemn?
Ever since 9-11, and well before it, this is the litany of accusation that ordinary Muslim Americans have had to endure:* Muslims do not condemn – there is no million Muslim march against terrorism. *...
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69+ killed-terrorist bomb-near children's play area-target Easter...
xis there a correct comic character crying for Lahore, or, do we not do that for victims darker than a paper bag— Sinbadpix (@karengeier) March 27, 2016 So I’m waiting for members of my husband’s...
View ArticleQueens Imam shot, 2 dead in NYC shooting just after afternoon prayers today
Two men in “religious garb” were shot at around 1:50pm EDT today walking from the Queens mosque (Ozone Park) just after afternoon prayers. One of the men was the Queen’s Imam (religious leader like a...
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