For Muslims, Ramadan is a time of fasting---of getting by with less. Traditionally, this has meant abstaining from things like…
Celebrating Ramadan by going green
Islam
Black crescent, white cross
By now, everyone has seen the Newsweek poll indicating that a majority of Republicans believes President Barack Obama sympathizes with…
Standing shoulder to shoulder
Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali discuss the coincidence this year of Rosh Hashanah and Eid al-Fitr, with regard…
Fuel on the fire
As Dina Temple-Rastin of NPR reports, controversy over Park51 has reached a new zenith in way of irony. Far from helping…
Islam and Islamism
Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International…
Secular representations of religion on Turkish television
Television broadcasting has played a significant role in the creation of a public governed by norms of secular reason in…
What’s wrong with burning the Qur’an?
A Florida church’s plans to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11 have drawn widespread condemnation, including from the…
Perceiving the President
A recent Pew Research poll indicates that an increasing percentage of Americans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Religious freedom, wisdom, and Park51
As the mid-term electoral season enters its final months, the growing controversy over the construction of Park51, the now well-known…
Islam and ecology
In the German web magazine Telepolis, Eren Güvercin writes on "eco-Islam." Ecological consciousness in most Muslim-majority countries remains low (while ecological…