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Lost in the furor over France's treatment of Muslims is the long simmering conflict between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt, with both conflicts stemming from the same intolerance. Read more
Lost in the furor over France's treatment of Muslims is the long simmering conflict between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt, with both conflicts stemming from the same intolerance. Read more
An article by Paul Akers makes some surprising statements in its zeal to show why it was such a blessing that Islam was turned back from Europe at the Battle of Tours. Read more
An article appeared this week on Altmuslim entitled Paris Is Burning: What’s Religion Got To Do With It by Shahed Amanullah discussing the riots in France. The Altmuslim discussion on the riots in France is challenging. I agree that the riots themselves have little to do with Islam, any more than the Watts riots had anything to do with Christianity. The resort to violence to express outrage over legitimate grievances, however, must be justified by the requirements of the just... Read more
A Muslim woman engineer with the US Army talks about spending the last three weeks assessing the damage from the recent earthquake in Pakistan. Read more
Only with non-apologetic, rational and principled reformist Islamic thought is it possible to deduce egalitarian and realistic Qur'anic interpretations. Read more
We pray that the day will soon come when we are blessed with the leadership necessary to lead our community beyond this demoralizing confusion. Read more
While religious ideology may have a role in other types of violence (i.e, al-Qaida), in this case it just happens to be the faith of the disenfranchised population. Read more
A very few of us point to the tradition that says that even if you see the moon yourself but your community celebrates on the "wrong" date, you should celebrate with the community. Read more
This week, we look at Muslim lifestyle magazines in the UK, and how they reflect Western Muslim culture. Also, Pakistani rape survivor Muktharan Mai brings her anti-violence campaign to America. Read more
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French Riots: Why integration in France has failed
It is time to move away from the paradigm that the violence happening now in France is a problem with religion and look instead to what governments do to their people. Read more