With the ascent of Marine Le Pen to the head of the National Front and her growing popularity in the…
The new faces of the European far-right
Islam
Explaining Islam to the public
Perhaps no group of scholars has had as much at stake in the public understanding of religion of late as…
Race, orthodoxy, and “real” Islam
More than anything, the Good (Orthodox) Muslim-Bad (Black) Muslim paradigm reveals the media’s seemingly willful ignorance of the longstanding diversity…
Sea burial of Osama bin Laden prompts criticism from scholars, clerics
The Guardian reports that some Islamic scholars and clerics are claiming that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was in…
Event: Islam in Europe and America, CUNY, May 4-6, 2011
The Committee for the Study of Religion at CUNY Graduate Center in New York is holding a conference on Islam…
Farrakhan’s fading limelight
David Lepeska’s New York Times article “Farrakhan Using Libyan Crisis to Bolster His Nation of Islam” brought the once prominent…
Farrakhan, Qaddafi, and the definition of American Islam
In another example of how mass media shape and constrain what constitutes legitimate Islam and religion more generally, the New…
Newt Gingrich’s secular, Islamic America
Matt Yglesias parses Newt Gingrich's (only) ostensibly contradictory statement, that "if we do not decisively win the struggle over the…
Have the jihadis lost the moral high ground to the rebels?
It has been a season of earthquakes, and the political ones in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Middle…
Poppies and Prophets
Last November 11, two British Muslims, purportedly members of an organization calling itself “Muslims Against Crusades” (MAC), were arrested under…