Heavy Metal Islam, a new book by Mark LeVine
A collection of profiles of Middle Eastern musicians -- metal, punk, reggae and hip-hop. Looks to be worth checking out.
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Anna Blackshaw, "My Enemy, My Brother (interview with David Gorssman on the conflict betwen Israel and Palestine)," The Sun Magazine (October 2008)
This is only an excerpt from the full interview. Even the excerpt is worth a read though. Grossman is an Israeli writer who manages to combine a powerful and ongoing activism for peace and justice for Palestinians, a strong and unapologetic sense of Israel's Jewish, Zionist, and historical distrinctiveness, and a genuinely poetic sensibility. His son Uri, a tank commander, was killed in the summer-before-last's fighting in Lebanon. Themes of the interview overlap strikingly with Appleby's work, I think.
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Surveying the Arab World for Ramadan's Best and Worst
A Dubai marketing firm has surveyed Muslim attitudes and practices regarding Ramadan, with some interesting results -- though I'm skeptical about some of the numbers.
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Police: No evidence of hate crime at local mosque
A ten-year-old girl who was standing insode a basement community room at a Dayton mosque was sprayed wtih an aerosol by two men standing outside an open window. Police say there is no evidence that the attack was motivated by bias since the attackers did not speak. Seen on Cee Bee's Friendfeed stream.
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THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem along with other local Christian leaders expresses its opposition to the mostly-American phenomenon of Christian Zionism.
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Ainslee Embree, "How religion gets mixed with violence," The Immanent Frame (Dec. 30, 2007) (on Benazir Bhutto's assassination)
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Bruce Lincoln and other scholars on Mohammad Atta's "final instructions"
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Bruce Lincoln, "The other war: the one of words," Kansas City Star op-ed (2002)
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Daniel Lazare reviews two new books on religious toleration
I basically am clipping this because I read it and want to remember it, but I think Lazare gets it completely wrong. Not only is his attitude towards religion in general misguided, he doesn't understand history.
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Canadian imam to launch hunger strike to protest domestic violence by Muslim men
Syed Soharwardy, deploring the fact that Muslims use religion as an excuse for perpetrating violence against family members, plans a hunger strike. He intends to call attention to the problem of domestic violence in Muslim families.
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"Where Boys Grow Up to Be Jihadis," by Andrea Elliott - New York Times, 11/25/2007
Important piece of journalism about a Moroccan town which has seen a number of young men vanish into the world of jihad.
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"Where Boys Grow Up to Be Jihadis," by Andrea Elliott - New York Times, 11/25/2007
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Christianity Today interviews Lamin Sanneh (2003)
Lamin Sanneh was raised in a scholarly, noble Muslim family in Gambia. As a young adult, he converted to Christianity, although Western Christians first treated him with suspicion. He now teaches at Yale Divinity School.
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Cartoon: varieties of hijab on the Syrian street
A cartoonist calling herself "Puppeteer" drew this amusing catalogue of the varieties of hijab she encounters walking to work each day in Damascus.
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Talal Asad's new book on suicide bombing is out
Talal Asad -- maybe the most brilliant working theoretician of religion -- has come out with a new book on suicide terror. The Columbia UP site also includes an excerpt and an MP3 of an interview with Asad.
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Religious "generation gap": children more observant than parents
Some evidence suggests a trend within families towards children's exhibiting greater religiosity than their parents. This story examines a few examples of this in different traditions.
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New Palestinian PM warns religious militants
Key quote: "Salam Fayyad has said he won't tolerate calls for violence delivered from mosque pulpits and plans to collect militants' weapons." I wonder whether he actually has enough control over the situation to back this up.
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Iran: fashion police crack down on "non-Islamic" hairdos
No more eyebrow-plucking for vain young Iranian men, either.
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