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May 2005
May 31, 2005
With Hand on Heart, Democratic Leader Pelosi Admits Israel Comes First
Pelosi, like so many other Democrats and Republicans in DC, does not appreciate the asymmetry of the conflict. She cannot understand that Palestinians are faced with violence every day as their livelihoods and homes are uprooted to make way for new Israeli settlements.
May 28, 2005
Rethinking Iraq: Time for American Muslims to Support Iraqi Democracy
If we withdraw now, Iraq will continue its tragic descent into anarchy. And then civil war and failed state status will be its fate.
May 25, 2005
The Quran Abuse Fiasco
By Mona Eltahawy It is difficult to say who comes out looking the worst in the fiasco over the Newsweek Quran episode. But it would be too easy to dismiss the whole affair as just the latest in a string...
May 24, 2005
Lily Munir on Indonesian Islamic Liberation Theology
By Yoginder Sikand Lily Zakiyah Munir is a leading Indonesian Muslim human rights activist. She is the director of the Jakarta-based Centre for Pesantren and Democracy Studies that works with the ‘ulama and students of Indonesian Islamic boarding schools...
May 21, 2005
Who's Your Daddy?
Photograph by Sumeia By Sumeia M Several year's ago, my husband I were invited to another family's house for dinner. The wife was a good friend of mine and she'd just had a baby. The pregnancy had been a...
May 19, 2005
India's new marriage contract
The author on her desi wedding day By Fatima J. Price-Khan Each religious group in India has the constitutional right to be governed by theocratic personal law in matters concerning family. This has been so since the British colonial...
May 18, 2005
Flushing the Koran: Newsweek got it Right
By Joshua Frank White House staffers scurried this past week to souse the flames sparked by Newsweek's recent story, which revealed that an internal US military investigation had found substantial evidence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran. Newsweek's...
May 17, 2005
The soft pornography of personal secularism
By Jawad Ali A nice young Muslim woman submitted something to MWU! for publication. She added a note saying please don’t put it in the soft porn section. This put a smile on my face. My response to her...
Breaking the Vicious Circle of Anti-Americanism and Islamophobia
By Louay M. Safi Anti-Americanism and Islamophobia share a common denominator: they both serve as a strategic weapon in the war of ideas between Muslim and Western extremists and bigots. On one level, anti-Americanism and Islamophobia stem from ignorance, deception,...
May 16, 2005
A Different Sort of War Movie
"Kingdom of Heaven" (2005, 145 min.), directed by Ridley Scott. By Pamela K. Taylor I went to see Kingdom of Heaven this week – after all, friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers were bound to ask me what I thought...
May 13, 2005
Islamic Jurisprudence, ‘Civil’ Disobedience, and Woman-led Prayer
Cast of Life of Brian mistakes human process for divine will By Laury Silvers Professor Hina Azam and Imam Zaid Shakir (pdf) have presented well-argued pieces upholding the prohibition against woman-led prayer. Although it may seem to some of...
May 12, 2005
Kamal Nawash’s Very, Very Strange Bedfellows
Digital Art by Frank Joel By Hussein Ibish On Saturday, May 14, "Free Muslims Against Terrorism," the group set up to stop criticism of Kamal Nawash by right-wing Zionists like Daniel Pipes and bolster his failed career as a...
May 10, 2005
Earth Toned Islam
By Nakia Jackson Those of us that espouse progressive views are sometimes in a rather tense relationship with those who are more conservative. The differences of perspectives can grow into seemingly insurmountable obstacles to establishing rapport. I’ve seen two views...
An Elegy for a dear departed friend, Sayeed Beg
"Friends" Sculpture by Dianne Cannon. By Mirza A. Beg Sayeed Beg and I became friends when the days were long, the nights were bright and time was not in a headlong rush. We met because he felt that I...
May 7, 2005
New Muslim Groups: the Ugly, the Bad and the Good
By Hussein Ibish In the wake of a number of seismic changes to conditions facing the American Muslim community in recent years, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the subsequent backlash against the community, a massive increase in defamation against...
May 5, 2005
The Muslim Personal Law Debate: Need to Listen to Alternative Voices
By Yoginder Sikand The recent meeting of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board at Bhopal has once again made it amply evident that many ‘ulama associated with the Board are averse to any basic changes in Muslim Personal Law...
May 4, 2005
The Making of the Green Menace
By Rayan El-Amine Anti-Arabism and Islamophobia are so much a part of the political and cultural discourse on Arabs and Muslims in American society today that most do not even recognize it as racism. The fear mongering of the...
May 3, 2005
Losing Myself in your Love
By Elen Ghulam One day I went to bed next to my handsome Palestinian husband. The next day I woke up to find an Israeli man with a hairy back lying next to me . He was sleeping on...
May 2, 2005
Shattering the idol of spiritual patriarchy: Towards a gender-fair notion of prayer in Islam
"Youthful Lovers" by Riza Abbasi. Safavid Iran By Omid Safi The imperative to undertake critical, independent reasoning within the framework of Islamic thought (ijtihad) has been one of the hallmarks of the creativity of Islamic thought through the centuries....
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