I don’t normally discuss the contentions of minor blog postings about MDI, but there was one that caught my eye, and I thought I’d use it as a good example of how anti-Muslim polemicists can misrepresent even the most innocuous writings by Muslims, and turn them into something […]
Apart from the article’s intrinsic interest, it is instructive for Muslims to know the great diversity that exists in contemporary Christianity. In fact it is probably more accurate to speak of Christianites, plural! by Ross Douthat of The New York Times (published July 14th). IN 1998, John Shelby Spong, then the reliably controversial Episcopal […]
by Sadat bin Anwar The Toronto Sun, a sensationalist tabloid-style Islamophobic newspaper, is at it again. This time it has taken the trouble to report the (non)story of Islamic ads at subway train stations in the Toronto area. The ads in question state “There is no god but […]
Oslo Litteraturhuset, 20 March 2011 © Abdal-Hakim Murad Must one be liberal to belong to the West? For all the polite multiculturalist denials, this question is being put to us more and more insistently. The European Union, as it struggles to articulate a common cultural as well as economic vision, […]
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