“Muslim women are often celebrated as courageous when pushing back against legal, social and cultural norms within their faith communities. But … aren’t Muslim women pushing back against Islamophobia ‘courageous,’ too?”
- Are American Muslim Women Brave? How About Those in Europe? (Huffiington Post)
When it acted “against all its tall and much-publicized claims about the freedom of expression and the freedom of conscience[, …] the hypocrisy of American society came to surface and lay uncovered before me” – Jermaine Jackson:
- ‘Islam Answered Many Unresolved Queries’ (Arab News)
“The Flint community needs us, and … [we] are helping by providing them with clean drinking water, filters, educational material related to the hazardous water, offering free lead testing, and raising money to assist” them:
“[A]s the story of Basma and other women shows, even under the unsparing rule of Isis a growing number of people have risked their lives over the past year to help Yazidis flee”:
- Escape from Isis (Financial Times)
What’s going on here? A Muslim is elected head of the campus branch of a Zionist peace group while Netanyahu hurls an anti-Semitic slur at America’s ambassador to Israel:
- Israel’s Image Issue (NY Times)
“Those who watched ‘Little Mosque [on the prairie]’ had more positive attitudes toward Muslims both immediately after the viewing and four to six weeks later” than the control group who watched “Friends”:
- Can a TV Sitcom Reduce Anti-Muslim bigotry? A path to progress (Christian Science Monitor)
Just as the Constitution is misinterpreted by American militias …, as it was by Timothy McVeigh, …Â just as the Confederacy quoted the Bible in support of their right to possess slaves, so also the Quran is misinterpreted”:
- True Islam Is a Peaceful Militaristic Religion (Colorado Springs Gazette)