Posts Tagged ‘Muslims’

August 14th, 2012

How Muslims view Islam

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In a recent post on Foreign Policy, Marc Lynch discusses a Pew Research Center survey which questioned Muslims on their views of their own religion.

May 30th, 2012

American attitudes toward religious minorities

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At last week’s 67th annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Daniel Cox, director of the Public Religion Research Institute, presented a paper on American attitudes toward religious minorities in 2012.

May 29th, 2012

In defense of Muslim civil liberities

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Alison Parker, the Human Rights Watch U.S. Program Director, composed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, urging the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the NYPD’s surveillance and profiling of Muslims based solely on their religion.

July 29th, 2011

Memorizing the Qur’an at age 10

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From noted war correspondent-turned filmmaker Greg Barker, a new documentary, Koran by Heart, which premiers August 1.

July 21st, 2011

30 more mosques in 30 more days

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Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq have announced round two of their mixed media project “30 Mosques in 30 Days,” an exercise in belief, ritual, community, and personal narrative.

February 7th, 2011

Cameron’s multikulti moment

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Echoing comments made by his German counterpart (as well as his Labour predecessor), British PM David Cameron spoke out strongly against multiculturalism at the Munich Security Conference.

November 19th, 2010

Muslims and their garb

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A few weeks have passed since Juan Williams, the erstwhile NPR commentator, said that he gets nervous when he sees passengers in “Muslim garb” on an airplane. A website called Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things has exposed just how ludicrous the concept of “Muslim garb” is.