Western Muslims

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump has probably benefited so far from giving long stemwinders of a speech on the hustings, saying enough outrageous things in each one to inflict on journalists information overload. He got away with a lot of awful statements because journalists only had room to focus […]

Climate Change

Islamic Declaration on Climate Change Turns Up Heat Ahead of Paris Talks

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By Kitty Stapp | (Inter Press Service) | – – NEW YORK (IPS) – Following in the footsteps of Pope Francis, who has taken a vocal stance on climate change, Muslim leaders and scholars from 20 countries issued a joint declaration Tuesday underlining the severity of the problem and urging governments to commit to 100 […]

Antisemitism

Are there Echoes of the old Anti-Semitism in today’s Islam-Hatred?

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Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | – Recently, the head of the Dutch national police Gerard Bouman warned against the poison that was seeping into his organisation: Muslims were continually being forced to prove their loyalty. Has Islamophobia really come this far? And can what is happening now be compared to pre-World War II anti-Semitism? […]

Books

A Journalist Journeys to the Heart of the Quran (Muslim Scripture)

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By JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary : Carla Power Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys to extraordinary places. Carla Power offers such an invitation in her new book, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran […]

Arab Americans

Facing Down Anti-Muslim Bigotry Through Faith in America

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David Schanzer | (ISLAMiCommentary) – Address to Islamic Association of Raleigh (NC) David Schanzer As-salamu alaykum. Thank you so much for the invitation to address you this afternoon. I am very pleased to be included in this wonderful celebration. I know we are gathering today with very heavy hearts. I was out of town last […]

Antisemitism

Muslims form ‘Ring of Peace’ around Oslo Synagogue, after Denmark Attack

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Reuters | – “Norwegian Muslims form a human shield around a synagogue in Oslo, offering symbolic protection after an attack on a synagogue in neighboring Denmark. Gavino Garay reports.” Reuters: “‘Human shield’ wraps around Oslo synagogue”

Western Jews

‘Muslims are Jews’ natural allies in Europe’: Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

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RT | – “Europe’s economic difficulties in recent years have led to a rise in radicalism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks brought these tensions to boiling point. How are these changes affecting Europe’s sizeable Jewish and Muslim minorities, and how are they testing the limits of Western ideas of tolerance and […]