Review: Considering Hate
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In the News: Candles, Kombucha, Crocodiles, and more!
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
In the News: Pamela Gellar, Prophesy, PEN, and more!
A round-up of the week’s religion news. Continue Reading →
Shari'ah, Fearing the Unknown
In news story after news story, the fear of Islam — and specifically of “creeping” Shari’ah law — is confirmed in headlines. From the Oklahoma law passed during midterm elections that banned Shari’ah (and was later blocked by a state judge) to the protest of mosques (or mosque-like buildings!) under construction around the country, journalists have made clear that some Americans are afraid of the growth, practice and presence of one particular religious group. Continue Reading →
Shari’ah, Fearing the Unknown
In news story after news story, the fear of Islam — and specifically of “creeping” Shari’ah law — is confirmed in headlines. From the Oklahoma law passed during midterm elections that banned Shari’ah (and was later blocked by a state judge) to the protest of mosques (or mosque-like buildings!) under construction around the country, journalists have made clear that some Americans are afraid of the growth, practice and presence of one particular religious group. Continue Reading →
Shari’ah, Fearing the Unknown
In news story after news story, the fear of Islam — and specifically of “creeping” Shari’ah law — is confirmed in headlines. From the Oklahoma law passed during midterm elections that banned Shari’ah (and was later blocked by a state judge) to the protest of mosques (or mosque-like buildings!) under construction around the country, journalists have made clear that some Americans are afraid of the growth, practice and presence of one particular religious group. Continue Reading →
What is Sacred Ground?
Never ones to let a potential controversy get past them (today’s cover headline reads, “Scarlett [Johanson] may be getting a new ‘tattoo'”), The New York Daily News has helped to make the “Ground Zero Mosque” a noisy conversation with emphatic sides. Today I happened to pick up a copy of the paper while waiting for the clerks to ring me up at the local deli — two Yemenis who were good enough to make me a sandwich while fasting for Ramadan — only to find a blue border at the top of page 4 that reads, “Center of Controversy.” Columnist Mike Lupica writes:
…this debate isn’t abut correctness. Or freedom of religion. Or even the idea that if this mosque doesn’t get built, it will mean we are now deciding about religious freedom in this country one neighborhood at a time. It is about common sense.
More than that, it is about the constitutents of Sept. 11.
Expunging the Quran
An event was held in downtown Manhattan yesterday to protest the proposed building of a mosque on the World Trade Center site. Richard Bartholomew gives us a run-down of the event and surrounding commentary at his site, Bartholomew’s Notes. He quotes Pamela Geller, executive director of “Stop the Islamization of America” and a speaker at the rally:
“The only Muslim center that should be built in the shadow of the World Trade Center is one that is devoted to expunging the Quran and all Islamic teachings of the violent jihad that they prescribe, as well as all hateful texts and incitement to violence”