religion

Of the 100 million or so people I estimate were wiped out by political violence in the twentieth century, the vast majority of them were killed by secular nationalists, Communists and Fascists

Islam

Juan Cole @ Rising up With Sonali on “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace”

Juan Cole

Islam is the youngest of the world’s major religions – and sadly the most misunderstood

Muslim-Americans

The ‘Blue Wave’ Was Also a ‘Muslim Wave’

Domenica Ghanem

( Otherwords.org) – In the most Islamophobic election in history, Muslim candidates scored big wins by embracing progressive policies. By Domenica Ghanem | November 7, 2018 With the Muslim Ban, the promotion of torturer Gina Haspel to CIA director, and increases in hate crimes, it’s been a rough year for us Muslims in the United […]

Qur'an

The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia

Juan Cole

The Qur’an has subsisted in the literature of Christian and post-Christian Europe and the Americas in a shifting borderland between self and other.

Featured

Refugee Muslim Women that Trump wouldn’t Have Let in, win House Seats

Juan Cole

Omar and Tlaib both faced horrible Islamophobic hate campaigns during their races, but Minnesotans and Detroiters look down on Nazis.

Islam

The Qur’an insists that Synagogues and Churches be Preserved and Respected

Juan Cole

“They should not have entered them save in fearful reverence.”

Muslim-Americans

US Voters poised to Elect 2 Muslim Women to Congress

Nova Safo

by Nova SAFO | – Chicago (AFP) – US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, marking a historic first even as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric has been on the rise. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, is all but certain to be elected to the US […]

Antisemitism

The GOP’s Dark Side: Trumpism puts Jews and other Minorities in the Crosshairs

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Republican Party is not directly responsible for the spike in hate crimes toward minorities. But it is indirectly responsible in three ways: 1. The party has largely allowed itself to be captured by the alien ideology of Trumpism 2. The party is running at least 16 far, far right […]

Islam

In the Muslim Scriptures, making Peace takes Precedence (re: Juan’s new Book)

Juan Cole

The chapter of The Cow in the Qur’an, 2:224, says, “Do not render your oaths in God’s name an obstacle to being pious and godfearing, or to making peace among people. Truly God is All-Hearing, Omniscient.” As with many Qur’an verses, the exact issue here is not clear, since the Prophet Muhammad recited the Muslim […]