John L. Esposito and Mona Mogahed While post-9/11 resulted in necessary Western government responses to counter international and domestic terrorism, this tragic event has been widely exploited by far-right neocons, hardline Christian Zionist Right and xenophobic forces. Islam and mainstream Muslims have been brush-stroked with “terrorism,” equated with the actions of a fraction of violent…
During Ramadan last year, we traveled to 30 Mosques in 30 Days, and this year we are doing it again. I am typing this in Atlanta as Aman sleeps. I am running on less than two hours of sleep. We have traveled across America in the past 15 days, and we are only half way…
Oralandar Brand-Williams/ The Detroit News Detroit— A state lawmaker wants Michigan to join the trend of states banning “foreign laws,” but Muslim activists say the effort is a thinly veiled attack on Islam. Rep. Dave Agema, R-Grandville, is pushing a bill to bar the implementation of foreign laws. It doesn’t mention Sharia — Islamic law…
On July 30, the New York Times profiled David Yerushalmi, the man behind the anti-sharia movement, looking into the hysterical claims of the “creeping sharia” crowd, as well as Yerushalmi’s own history of inflammatory and bigoted statements. Yesterday, Yerushalmi responded in the American Thinker, accusing the writer Andrea Elliott of taking his words “out of…
Bright moments in the Dark Ages If “1001 Inventions” does nothing else, it teaches that “Dark Ages” is a misguided moniker. The period between the seventh century and the Renaissance was, in fact, a time of explosive creativity in the expansive Muslim world, which stretched from Spain to China. The breakthroughs in science, math, astrology…
