by KECIA ALI for FEMINISM AND RELIGION (BLOG) on MAY 22, 2013: In the space of a week, three obtuse remarks by non-Muslim men about Muslim women ticked me off. First was a letter to the editor by Rabbi Howard Berman, published in the Boston Globe on April 21. The title (“Women’s Strides set Judaism apart”) was [...]
by HENELITO A. SEVILLA, JR. for MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE on MAY 20, 2013: The Philippine government has been pursuing Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) observer since since 2003. Such a strategy, pursued so doggedly for ten unsuccessful years, suggests that decision-makers in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila believe that something very important [...]
by ELLEN MCLARNEY for JADALIYYA on MAY 22, 2013: “Woman and the constitution: Fear of woman’s marginalization rules over all” blared an April 2012 headline in al-Ahram, joining other protests over the role of women in Egypt’s new constitution. Organizations (“EgyptSoft”) sprang up, with articles and posts about how “the Egyptian woman screams in the face of the [...]
via RUSSIA TODAY, INTERVIEW with AKBAR AHMED on MAY 9, 2013: The new US tool for fighting terrorists, the drones, creates more enemies than killing ‘bad guys’, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington, D.C., Akbar Ahmed, told RT. Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at [...]
Bruce Lawrence: The Spectacle of Terror – Old Reminders, New Lessons
by BRUCE LAWRENCE for ISLAMiCommentary on May 23, 2013: Any American who watched the grizzly footage of the broad daylight murder of an off duty soldier in London yesterday had to be reminded of the Boston Marathon massacres on April 15, scarcely a month and a week earlier. What most news reports have been quick [...]
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