Category Archives: Islam

Islam and Religious Studies Post-9/11

Aaron W. Hughes writes in his book Theorizing Islam: “When one permits those whom one studies to define the terms in which they will be understood, suspends one’s interest in the temporal and the contingent, or fails to distinguish between … Continue reading

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When Bad Scholarship Is Just Bad Scholarship: A Response to Omid Safi

Aaron W. Hughes writes: I’ve never been called a racist before. Yet, if Omid Safi’s undocumented musings about the current state of Islamic Studies is to be believed, I am one of several non-Muslims who have the nerve to attack … Continue reading

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Book Club: The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray

From Amazon.com: The Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was first published to huge acclaim. … Continue reading

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Why Jews Welcome Muslims

Lawrence Auster wrote in 2004: Mass Moslem immigration into America combined with world-wide Moslem Jew-hatred poses an unprecedented threat to American Jews—a “perfect storm” that is forcing at least some Jews into an agonizing re-appraisal of their traditional support for … Continue reading

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LAT: ‘Antipathy toward the Muslim minority is rooted in racial differences and spiked with fears of Islamist terrorism.’

Isn’t that all you need to know? Racial differences and fears of terrorism sound like a rational reason for outsiders to hate a group. The path to a happy life is to be of service to others. The path to … Continue reading

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