The Iconoclast
Frosty The Snowman, Like The Mona Lisa And Practically All Of Western Art Haram
Here. The fatwa-issuer might have allowed just a little fun, explained that there was no need to forbid something so fleeting, that diffugere-nives and all that would quickly take care […]
Radical Islamist or Violent Extremism: “What difference does it make?”
Earlier today, we posted on the purported contrast in responses at yesterday’s White House joint news conference by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama to a question […]
Muslim Mobs Burn Down Churches In Niger
Here. Someone I know from NIger, who lives in France, who is vaguely Muslim, was horrified by what he saw when he returned to Niger, after years of absence, about […]
When Tim Winter Became Abdal Hakim Murad, He Found A Peace That Passeth Understanding
Those who find their peace by living within the pre-fabricated grid of Islam, that Compleat Regulation of Life and Total Explanation of the Universe, are not limited to the economically […]
Police probe ‘hate crime’ after Holocaust posters graffitied with ‘liars’ in east London
From the London Evening Standard. The police have released CCTV. That’s a man in a dress – and he’s not Danny la Rue or Grayson Perry – that looks like […]
Majid Freeman, The Late Alan Henning’s Friend, Has Opinions He’d Like To Share
But not with you. He’d like to share them with fellow Muslims. Unfortunately for him, others have been able to eavesdrop. The story, publishd last November, here.
A Musical Interlude: Lovable And Sweet (Annette Hanshaw)
Listen here.
Suppose, Somehow, Islam Could Be "Reformed" — How Long Would It Take?
A few dozen francophone Arabs and Berbers have signed a petition calling for less Charlie-Hebdo hysteria, and so on. A sweet Asma Doumani writes a hopeful article that appears in […]
That MESA Nostra Contest One More Time
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Fitzgerald: Why I Call It Mesa Nostra [re-posting]
Here. I didn’t put in anything in that original piece about Carl Ernst, or Omid Safi of the Islamic Studies Center at Duke. At that time I was focussed on […]
Fitzgerald: A Brief Taxonomy Of MESA Nostra [re-posting]
“The vast majority of people in the Arab world sympathize with al Qaeda only because it champions their issues and speaks their language and it’s seemingly effective against their enemies.” […]
An Introduction To The Thought (And Feelings, And Heated Prose) Of Omid Safi
From Temple, to Chapel Hill, and now that appetizing thing, full professor and Director of the Islamic Studies Center at Duke University, Omid Safi churns out prose that has something […]
Raoul Wallenberg
Today is the 70th anniversary of the “disappearance” of Raoul Wallenberg when Soviet troops arrested him in Budapest (see forthcoming February issue of NER).
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
The French, it has been observed, take pride in France, in Chamfort’s “perfected civilisastion,” take pride in their physical and cultural patrimoine. This patrimony, and this pride steady them, give […]
A Few Dozen Secular Arabs and Berbers Sign A Petition On The Need To Ignore Or Change Islamic Texts
Here. It’s good that they publicly recognize that what went on in Paris, or in the Islamic State, or all over the place when Muslims behave violently toward non-Muslims and […]
A Letter To Francois Hollande From An Arab In Ramallah
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