The Women's Mosque
The Women’s Mosque in Los Angeles claims to be taking a step forward by implying: we can’t do anything about the separate part, but we can do something about the equal. We want more real estate, and if...
View ArticleZuleikha In the Qur'an and the Torah
A small group of Jewish and Muslim emerging religious leaders met to discuss the story of Prophet Joseph in the Qur’an and in the Bible. They are four reflections, by two Muslim women and two Jewish...
View ArticleSaint Valentine, God, and Godiva
The first rule of love is, “marriage is no real excuse for not loving.” Rule number two, “he who is not jealous cannot love.” And lastly, “when made public, love rarely endures.” Translation; love your...
View ArticleWhen Good Faith Is Good for Nothing
A growing number of Muslims born and raised in the West are identifying less with their ethnic and religious identities in exchange for identifying with what we fashionably refer to as “like-minded...
View ArticleFemininity, Faith and Freedom
When you are the strongest person you know, you cannot help but feel weak. Everyone needs a hero. Once we understand this, terms like strength and weakness become interchangeable. In a world where...
View ArticleDefining "Religion": Is It an Easy Task?
Dr. Muqtedar Khan is the Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is also the Director of the Islamic Studies Program....
View ArticleReligions on Birth Control (Outlook)
Are contraceptives forbidden in all faiths and religions? This is a question that can never be given one single answer. Birth control is seen differently from one religion to another. As there are some...
View ArticleMimouna: A Jewish-Arab Celebration
Why is a Reform Synagogue in Tucson, Arizona promoting a Moroccan-Jewish celebration of Jewish-Muslim amity and friendship, with a concert and festival?
View ArticleIslam and Capitalism
Most modern Muslims tend to equate capitalism with greed. But the resentment towards capitalism in the Muslim world is really less ideological and more personal. Unfortunately, the Muslim world is only...
View ArticleThe Myth of Modern Mysticism
A romantic poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, once wrote, “Think of God as a direction, not an object.” But what if you are moving in the wrong direction? How will you know it?
View ArticleIslamophobia and Banu Israel in the Qur'an (Part 2
According to the Qur’an, every nation in the world receives at least one prophet who speaks to it in its own language. However, one nation, the Children of Israel, has received a great many prophets.
View ArticleDeath in Multi-Cultural Communities
In Discovering Through Death - Beliefs and Practices book, Suleman Nagdi suggests that we change our ways, taking time to consider how Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists and other...
View ArticleWhy God Matters As a Matter of Fact
Emboldened by the current clash between the Christian right and the Islamic world, modern day non-believers have declared an unholy war. The onslaught of denunciations against religion began with Sam...
View ArticleIs Faith a Choice or a Gift?
So how does one get this blessing of faith? First, you must be humble enough to believe, not because you perceive in God, but in spite of your lack of perception.
View ArticleRamadan and God's Divine
God has a diet that is good for us both physically and spiritually; a diet described in the Torah and in the Qur'an. Over many centuries the various legal schools have developed God's diet somewhat...
View ArticleOne Big Family of the Human Beings
Inter-religious dialogue is above all an encounter between human beings who may be from different religious traditions but nevertheless share the same humanity, the same world...
View ArticleWrestling with Conscience on Faith
I have, for many years now, been engaged in a private battle, struggling to resolve feelings of remorse over my deliberate absence and resulting indifference towards my local Muslim community. To...
View ArticleForgiven: The Art of Letting Go
Forgiveness is always a nice concept but it's not easily done in all cases. The next best thing is 'letting go'.
View ArticleAllah's Worlds of Life Are Coming Closer
During medieval times, Christian theologians accepted the Ptolemaic earth-centered Greek view of the universe as an absolute universal truth. They believed that the earth, life in general and human...
View ArticleISIS: Between Caliphate and Apocalypse
The Islamic State has become an entrenched jihadist statelet feeding off the failure of the Iraqi state and the chaos of the Syrian civil war. A new book, The ISIS Apocalypse, provides a detailed...
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