Lighthearted ads that both aimed to promote the 2013 documentary “The Muslims Are Coming!” and tolerance toward American Muslims should start appearing in dozens of the city’s subway stations in the near future, following a district-court rulingon Wednesday that reversed a decision by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reject the ads. Dean Obeidallah, one of…
Ilyasah Shabazz is in Australia on a speaking tour and has been visiting Islamic schools teaching young people about empowerment and being part of the global community. But she also has a message for parents about the threats of radicalisation. “If we don’t take full responsibility for our children’s development, we leave them open to…
The year is 2022 and France has elected a Muslim president. This is the narrative shell of Submission, a controversial novel by Michel Houellebecq that arrives in Canada on Tuesday, about 10 months after it mangled sensibilities in France. Denounced as Islamophobic, lamented as a “gift” to the far right, the book earned an unsolicited…
The central character of Rushdie’s new novel, “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” is also a man who has been cursed and then gets blamed for it. Geronimo Manezes, a Mumbai-born gardener now living in New York, has begun to levitate. This isn’t the wish fulfillment of a flying dream; it threatens his livelihood…
In an interview with Le Parisien, the famous rapper responded to questions posed by fans. As a Muslim, Maître Gims, or Gandhi Djuna, responded to several questions about Islam in France. The former member of Sexion d’Assaut admitted that it was not east to be a Muslim in France while images are circulated about Islamist…
