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Islam In America

According to Wikipedia, the term “whack-a-mole” is used colloquially to denote a repetitious and futile task: each time an adversary is “whacked”, it only pops up again somewhere else. Not politically correct, I know: but it popped into my mind as I was reading about the horrific slaughter in Paris, France, today (7 January 2015).…

Saudi Arabia is the only country on Earth where women are prohibited from driving. How in the world do we let a petroleum producing country get away with that? Why aren’t American Muslim women ridiculing the aging Saudi princes for their nonsensical behavior? For that matter, why aren’t American Muslim men deriding this hidebound ruling…

It never ceases to amaze me that some folks think the way to win hearts and minds is by killing people. Yes, I’m thinking of Boko Haram in Nigeria. The Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, according to this report. Conversion by the sword may have…

Somehow it’s comforting to know that both Saudia Arabians and ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are stuck in the same time warp. Saudia is poised to begin seating that does not allow men to sit next to unrelated women. The haredim have the same objections. Methinks people whose social mores are stuck in the past should stay…

Earlier this week, the Administrative Court of Alexandria, Egypt, banned a festival held each year for decades in honor of a Moroccan rabbi. According to the report in WorldPost, “local residents…objected to the mingling of men and women and the consumption of alcohol at the festival, and claimed that strict security measures applied during the…

It’s going to be a recurrent problem: older members of a mosque in conflict with younger members. It’s a situation that has been repeated in religious institutions in the United States since Colonial days (think of the immigrant Pilgrims’ conflicts with their own North America-born children and grandchildren). This time it’s Sacramento, California, where Mohamed…

Muslim-majority countries need to get a grip. First Turkey jails a 16-year-old boy for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and then Mauritania sentences a journalist to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Really? In the 21st Century? We haven’t figured out the benefits of free speech? How can a Muslim possibly believe Muhammad…

Pakistan is a mystery to me. How can it continue to act in such self-defeating ways? I’ll let the New York Times‘ Editorial Board summarize: “Despite the grief and rage that followed the massacre of 148 students and their teachers by Taliban militants at an army-run school in Peshawar last week, Pakistan persists in its…

Let’s see: Islamic militants are killing school kids in Pakistan, young women who refuse to marry ISIS fighters in Syria and elderly Nigerians. It’s hard to imagine who’s safe from these rampaging terrorists. Yes, there’s no other term that describes better the misguided men (and they’re mostly men) who think killing people is the way…

“What if there were a group of Muslim open carry advocates who called themselves ‘Sword of the Prophet’ and whose avowed mission was to bring Sharia law to the U.S., and they took to showing up armed and in large numbers outside of churches on Sunday, the way the [Open Carry] guys do at the…
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