Back in May of 2008, I wrote a post for this blog entitled, The TroubleWith Muslim Pundits Today, in which I, using Irshad Manji as an example, attacked and exposed the self-serving and selfish tendencies of many a Muslim pundit who would seek to “reform” Islam without actually contributing anything to it, let alone [...]
:: February 14, 2010 ::
The Trouble With Muslim Pundits Part Two
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Filed under: Culture/Politics, Islam, Islam in America, Musings
Tags: Ali Eteraz, american islam, american muslims, Irshad Manji, Islam in America, Islamic reformation, Islamism, Muslim pundits, Muslim reformers, Muslim scholars, Muslim scholarship, Muslims, reform, reforming Islam, Sherman Jackson, Valentine's Day, Wael Hallaq
Tags: Ali Eteraz, american islam, american muslims, Irshad Manji, Islam in America, Islamic reformation, Islamism, Muslim pundits, Muslim reformers, Muslim scholars, Muslim scholarship, Muslims, reform, reforming Islam, Sherman Jackson, Valentine's Day, Wael Hallaq
:: February 13, 2010 ::
If You’re Not Part of the Solution, You’re Part of the Problem
There has been, in my mind, a growing trend in Black America for the last 40-odd years: the rise in secularism amongst Blackamericans. By this I refer to the increasing tendency for Blackamericans to make religion, be it Islam or Christianity, irrelevant to their daily lives, public or private (I say private as [...]
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Tags: american islam, aqiqah, black america, black christianity, black culture, black families, black muslims, blackamerican muslims, blackamericans, Civil Rights Movement, divorce, ethics, incarceration, liberalism, liberals, morals, private morality, public morality, religious institutions, secularism, single-mothers, single-parenting, single-parents, white america, white supremacy
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:: January 12, 2010 ::
American Muslims and American Civic Religion
Civil Religion as defined by Robert Bellah: a set of rituals, symbols and beliefs which were institutionally separate, but partly derived, nevertheless, from organized religion. According to Bellah, American civil religion had two main origins: one religious in nature, the other secular. To be more precise, Bellah based his understanding on the theological leanings [...]
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Tags: american culture, american islam, american muslim culture, american muslims, blackamericans, Christian nation, civic religion, civil religionist, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Founding Fathers, hyphenated-American experience, Judeo-Christian nation, Judeo-Christian-Muslim nation, Philip Gorski, Puritans, republicanism, Robert Bellah
Tags: american culture, american islam, american muslim culture, american muslims, blackamericans, Christian nation, civic religion, civil religionist, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Founding Fathers, hyphenated-American experience, Judeo-Christian nation, Judeo-Christian-Muslim nation, Philip Gorski, Puritans, republicanism, Robert Bellah
:: December 2, 2009 ::
It Wasn’t Meant To Go This Way
The above seven words say so much about the state of Islam in the world today. More immediately, they describe a despondent viewpoint of Muslims in Switzerland, who, after having high hopes that the Swiss would embrace them as one of their own, had that hope dashed on the rocks in a vote of 57% [...]
