Or… I ain’t problematic, I have a [group name] friend!! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about in-person exposure to a particular race, religion,
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Tag: Islam
Trump: Islam Hates Us; Bush: Islam is Peace
“I think Islam hates us. There’s something there that — there’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous hatred. We have to get to
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Catholic Muslims: The Pope and the Qur’an
Pope Francis released an encyclical today discussing the environment and humanity’s responsibility to be good shepherds of it. Quoth Rod Dreher: What Francis has
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Muslim or Black in America
I think, if there’s one thing I will like about President Obama’s term coming to an end, it is that perhaps the extreme right-wing
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Prophet human
Or… God Uppercase I just started reading Rashed Hasan’s new treatise, Removing the Middleman: Deciphering Faith Without Ritual. The book is intended to be
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Islam as a Majority, Christianity as a Minority
An interesting quote from Philip Yancey’s Vanishing Grace: A young Muslim man recently told Yancey, “I have read the entire Koran and can find
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American(ized) #Islam
Culture and religion, no matter how universal we may want to view the latter’s principles, are inexorably tied. Islam strives to be a religion
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From Prayer to Fasting to Kickoff to Happy Hour
This morning, I performed wu’du (ritual cleansing before prayer) for the first time in years. I don’t like wu’du much, it’s a little too
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The Moral Therapeutic Deism of ISIS
Rod Dreher, in a characteristically brilliant post entitled When ISIS Ran the American South, reminds us that no society is too far removed, historically-speaking,
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Satire, Charlie Hebdo and the Mindset of (some) Muslims
ou… la liberté d’expression est non négociable. The offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper which has attracted controversy for lampooning Islam and
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