Category Archives: islam

Arbitration & mediation in the Arab world: an excerpt

By Nasser Ali Khasawneh | Published: January 31, 2010
There are at least two verses in the Koran that sanction the notion of arbitration and mediation.
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Jihad vs. McWorld: one man’s terrorist…

By Renee Martin | Published: January 25, 2010
Violence against Muslims and desecration of mosques is on the rise. We do not see these incidents as terrorist acts.
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Ashura explosions: sanctimonious murder

By Kyla Pasha | Published: December 29, 2009
We become Yazid.
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France’s burqa ban: in the name of freedom?

By Renee Martin | Published: June 24, 2009
Many of the women wearing the burqa in France originate from Africa, and this, to some degree, legitimizes the white man's burden in the eyes of men like Sarkozy.
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Obama promotes choice in Cairo

By Renee Martin | Published: June 6, 2009
The hijab as a garment of political protest is not a concept readily embraced by the West, because it is counter to our construction of Muslim women as eternal victims.
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“Honor killings” contort religion

By Feature Writer | Published: July 14, 2008
ATLANTA — As an American Muslim, I was horrified to read about the tragic death of Sandela Kanwal in Clayton County, Ga., allegedly at hands of her father in a supposed "honor killing."
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The trouble in Lebanon: interview with Sandra Mackey

By Jonathan Mok | Published: June 26, 2008
"It is only when you actually live with the reality of the perceptions, misunderstandings, and genuine grievances one holds for the other that it is possible to grasp just how close both the Arabs and the West are to falling into a chasm of conflict destructive to both."
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Amusement from Insipid Places

By Ali Eteraz | Published: June 18, 2008
When I say to the world that men and women are the same, I do not understand why everyone points to their private parts.
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Two Thoughts in the Prado Museum, Madrid

By Ali Eteraz | Published: May 9, 2008
Why does immortality only belong to the dead?
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Geert Wilders, “Fitna,” and the last refuge of the bigoted

By Feature Writer | Published: April 14, 2008
Even the Bush Administration had the sense to separate ‘Islam’ qua religion from the bastardized postmodern ideology advocated by the likes of al-Qaeda.
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