| . |
. |
Sign-up for the MWU! newsletter--enter your email address below:
Readers Now Online
We need your help.
If you support our magazine and our mission, please consider contributing to this project and progressive Muslim media. We accept donations through PayPal’s secure system by using the button below.
MWU! Blog Archives
Browse MWU! Blog by Topic
Our Favorite Blogs
MWU! Reads
|
. |
|
. |
|
. |
MWU! Blog Entries Appearing in
February 2005
February 26, 2005
Will the US Finally Live Up to Its Lofty Ideals? The Case for a More Aggressive Pro-Democracy Stance in the Arab World
In demonstrating our renewed commitment to the promotion of democracy in the Arab world, we would be well-advised to start with Egypt, whose President, Hosni Mubarak, has been in power for nearly a quarter-century, thanks, in large part, to US support.
February 25, 2005
‘Tough Love’ and Moral Policing
I would like to raise a deeper theoretical question about the relation between the State and Morality, and ask if the state has any business in legislating and enforcing the morality of the nation in the first place.
February 24, 2005
Are European Muslims Painting Themselves into a Corner?
Muslim minorities the world over have to understand that their problems can only be addressed and solved in the context of a wider, broader civil society.
An Islamic Renaissance?
Should Islam be reformed? Does the current rise in violence by Muslims reflect a problem within Islam? Or is it a malpractice of Islamic doctrines found in religious Sharia laws?
February 23, 2005
Amina Wadud Responds to Tarek Fatah
I did NOT experience racism at Noor. My blatant and blunt response to your question on racism was INTENDED to cut like a knife.
February 22, 2005
We Are All Lebanese Today
Conspiracy theories take so much effort that they deplete the energy needed to think straight. And anyone who is thinking straight will know that those who killed Hariri want to tear out those pictures of the Beirut of today.
February 20, 2005
Nazi Fathers and Muslim Sons
I don’t have to go back four hundred years to find the devil in my blood.
February 18, 2005
Action Needed to Bolster Abbas
It would be reassuring to see if the two sides would move forward and tackle the thorny issues of peace-making, including the borders of a future Palestinian state, Israeli security, Jewish settlements, the status of east Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.
Community Declares Daytime Curfew to Protest ‘L Word’ Posters
The normally bustling Steinway street, home to one of New York City’s highest concentration of Muslim residents, now looks like a ghost town during the day.
Western Muslims Must Get Tough on Extremism in Our Community
The presence of a persistent anti-western extremism within a small minority of Western Muslims exacerbates the plight of Western Muslims and undermines all their efforts to improve relations with the broader western communities and allay fears that Islam in the West is a threat to democracy and security.
February 16, 2005
Black History Is Our History
Muslims in this country can learn a great deal about themselves and their future in America by understanding the struggle of African Americans and lessons of Black History.
February 15, 2005
All One: A Multi-Faith Night to Remember
Canadians came out in numbers—youth, middle aged people and seniors; Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists and Jews; atheists and agnostics—some out of curiosity, others half informed and some totally unaware, with no clue about what was going to take place—to be perfectly honest, neither did I.
February 11, 2005
'I am a Nigger, and you will just have to put up with my blackness,' Professor Amina Wadud Confronts Her Hecklers in Toronto
Her voice quivered. Barely concealing her anger, Professor Amina Wadud's words bellowed across the hall, "I am a nigger and I can't do much about it."
February 10, 2005
Black Is the Color of Muharram
O my Abbas!, O my Ali Asghar! O my Husain!
dripping black blood like black gold
that energizes the rusty dead soul
February 9, 2005
‘The Muslims Are Coming! The Muslims Are Coming!’
"24" conjures an image of the Arabs in this country as leather wearing, squinting, bad parents, who are out to get you.
The '24' Conundrum
It is the case, unfortunately, that some angry Americans don't distinguish between terrorists and law-abiding American Muslims.
February 8, 2005
Are Opponents of Shariah Anti-Islam?
The controversy over the introduction of Shariah law in Ontario, Canada, continues to divide the Canadian Muslim community in ways that are unprecedented.
February 7, 2005
Oh Allah
you are in me
i am in you
but what does that mean?
February 4, 2005
Malaysia’s Home-Grown Taliban: Is this the future of ‘Moderate’ Islam in Malaysia? (Part III)
Authoritarianism rests on the denial of the common humanity that we share with others, and this denial of commonality can only be transcended through a politics that is predicated on the ethics of Love.
February 3, 2005
Speaking Out About Israel to Save the Jewish Soul
Remaining silent is no longer an option. We can no longer let our trauma, our deep fear of anti-Jewish hatred implanted in us through generations of persecution, make us remain quiet at the expense of truth.
The Closed Doors
"The Closed Doors" (Al-Abwab Al-Mughlaqa) (1999, Egypt, 110 min.), directed by Atef Hetata. In Arabic with English subtitles. Free Screening: Friday, February 4, New York City I definitely believe that the best way to avoid fundamentalism is to be...
February 2, 2005
Canadian Muslim Group Endorses Same-Sex Marriage Legislation
The Muslim Canadian Congress, a Toronto-based grassroots organization, has welcomed the legislation presented by Justice Minister Irvin Cotler that re-defines marriage to include same-sex partners, and has urged Muslims and other minority groups to stand in solidarity with gays and lesbians.
Malaysia’s Home-Grown Taliban: Is this the future of ‘Moderate’ Islam in Malaysia? (Part II)
How, pray tell, has the actions of the officials of JAWI served to promote the image of Islam as a creed of love, compassion and humanity?
February 1, 2005
American Muslims Call for a Radical Transformation of US Foreign Policy at USIP Conference
The open and very candid forum once again showed the great unease that American Muslims have about the direction of US foreign policy.
|
. |
|
. |
|
. |
|
|
