Detox the orthodox
Men have always differed and because religion through the vehicle of revelation has largely been an interpretative enterprise, lots of problems can arise. Early in the history of Islam, caliph Uthman (the third leader after Prophet Muhammad) appointed a commission whose sole task was to compile the Koran into a book. Before this, the main [...]
Jerusalem: Where armies and souls contend
Steven Erlanger (The New York Times) ruminates on the troubled city of Jerusalem.
The struggles over the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif…are fundamental, with fanatics of both faiths wanting to expunge the other.
Yet this is one of my favorite places in Jerusalem – grassy, shaded by trees and deceptively calm.
While I sit on a stone wall and look [...]
Sunday in Seville- Rabbis and Imams meet
72 Jewish Rabbis and 72 Muslim Imams met on Sunday to kick off the Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace. That this organization even exists is something that might come as a shock to many.
For too long, Jewish-Muslim relations has been overshadowed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Between the three Abrahamic [...]
…Online!
Salafism, and Islamic neofundamentalism in general, share a love-hate relationship with the Internet. The contradiction is not that difficult to come by. On the one hand, Saudi Arabia puts into place the
largest Internet filtering systems in the world, and on the other hand, when searching for "Islam" or "sharia", search engines often return
Salafist sites among [...]
Cartoon controvosy
The Danish publication of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad has been in the news lately, and blogs have written about the topic to death. The cartoons are almost unanimously condemned by Muslims, with the Western world being split on the issue. The newspapers of European countries have reprinted the cartoons on the pretext of upholding freedom of [...]
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