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Liberal Intervention: A Talk Islam Debate

posted by G. Willow Wilson

Guest post by G. Willow Wilson. Over at TalkIslam, we’ve been having an ongoing debate about the merits of liberal military intervention around the world. The debate was sparked by an entry about the Shabab Islamist group, which is growing [...]

Gaza: Basic Facts and Better Coverage

posted by G. Willow Wilson

As I discussed in an earlier post, free media and unbiased media are not the same thing. Current coverage of the situation in Gaza by American press is a perfect example of this discrepancy. But an op-ed by Professor Rashid [...]

Islam and the Environment: A Conversation

posted by G. Willow Wilson

Recently at Talk Islam, we’ve been having a discussion about the Islamic attitude toward environmental conservation. It started when blogger Umar Lee, an anti-conservationist, posted this entry at his blog. When Talk Islam blogger Thabet called Lee’s attitude “ignorance dressed [...]

Free Speech, Consensus, and Bigotry

posted by G. Willow Wilson

This is a guest post by Muslim comics writer and essayist G. Willow Wilson. One of my literary heroes, Neil Gaiman, is an ardent supporter of free speech. In this entry of his blog, he discusses an issue that has [...]

Previous Posts

"The veil is on my face, not my mind" #Egypt
Sometimes, Twitter's forced succinctness produces the most insightful commentary: Almost fell over when a niqabi in Luxor told us she voted for Hamdeen Sabahi. "The veil is

posted 10:45:47am May. 24, 2012 | read full post »

Muhammad Asad and Islam as a rational faith
There's a lengthy essay by Talal Asad of his father, Muhammad Asad (b. Leopold Weiss 1900 d. 1992), a convert to Islam from Judaism and one of the 20th century's great Islamic thinkers. I found this part p

posted 7:49:11pm May. 22, 2012 | read full post »

Mubarak, Facebook! and shukran
Today, Facebook goes public, and begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange at 11:00am Eastern time (the truly addicted stockwatchers may want to bookmark this). Amidst all the

posted 10:32:41am May. 18, 2012 | read full post »

Islam and Star Wars Day: Allah is the Force
Jumah Mubarak, and May the 4th be with you! Today is Star Wars day, the day we remember with fondness the three greatest movies of our childhood

posted 8:57:52am May. 04, 2012 | read full post »

the post-Osama world, Year One
It's the one-year anniversary of the successful killing of Osama bin Laden. Having gone through the requisite 5 stages of emotion over the act long ago, I find that looking back at it now, it feels as though little has changed. Al Qaeda remains a distributed threat still seeking to harm America, tho

posted 8:49:01am May. 01, 2012 | read full post »


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