Islam | Islam
Aug.19.2010
I highly recommend the new expose of Islam by this black Somali woman writer, especially to all bleeding hearts.
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Jun.30.2010
THE BUTTERFLY MOSQUE: ON-STAGE CONVERSATION WITH G. WILLOW WILSON Saturday, July 10, 2010 6:00pm - 7:30pm ICCNC, 1433 Madison Street, Oakland, CA 94612 Web site: http://www.iccnc.org/publish/26/islam-and-authors---wil.php
Tickets: $7 adults, $5 students.
Phone: (510) 832-7600
Co-sponsored...
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Jun.05.2010
June 13 Toronto: Ben McNally’s Books and Brunch 10am-12:30pm. For tickets, visit Ben McNally Books
June 15 Seattle: Elliott Bay Book Company (new Capitol Hill location) 7pm FREE
June 17 Denver: LoDo Tattered Cover, 7:30PM FREE
June 22 Boulder, CO: Boulder Bookstore, 7:30PM FREE
July 7 San...
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May.18.2010
Dear Reader,
Every writer, it’s said, has a single story to tell -- and tells it over and over again.
A’isha bint Abi Bakr, the most famous and influential woman in Islam, inspired me to write about her life in my novels “The Jewel of Medina” and “The Sword of Medina.”
Now that I’m at work on a...
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May.04.2010
The Imam’s DaughterHannah Shah
“My father was the Imam; my father was the mosque.” The world Hannah was born into meant her father has absolute power over nearly everyone, especially his family. A sometimes dark and brutal tale, the book is overwhelmingly a tribute the resilience of one woman’s...
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Apr.28.2010
Several weeks ago, I published the article "Faith is not Religion." When I did, I felt somewhat reluctant, not wanting to wade into the religious quagmire spiraling through American politics. If you have not read the article, you might want to read it before finishing this since I feel no...
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Apr.25.2010
A New York Times correspondent teams up with a Belfast professor to write the story of Islamism among the Palestinians.JERUSALEM — Stephen Farrell was sipping coffee with his money changer on Salah ud-Din, East Jerusalem’s main commercial street, four years ago, when Beverley Milton-Edwards entered...
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Apr.24.2010
The ‘South Park’ team as well as this kneejerk Muslim group are part of the same construct – to capitalise on people’s emotions.
I don’t think teddy bears are mentioned anywhere in the Quran. Therefore, is the animated satirical series ‘South Park’ well within its rights to portray Prophet...
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Apr.06.2010
JERUSALEM — There’s an old Arab aphorism: “A man with a plan takes action; a man with two plans gets confused.” Apply that to the Israelis and to the Palestinians, and the nonsensical sequence of recent events in the Middle East starts to fall into a comprehensible pattern.
It’s not a pleasant...
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Apr.02.2010
Just when the Catholic Church is dealing with a frisky priest and a young Indian godman has been caught on camera in a sleazy video with some female devotees, the Supreme Court of India makes a supposedly progressive pronouncement. All’s well? Not quite. It uses god.
The verdict would have incensed...
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