Juan Cole (@jricole), Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan joins us to discuss his book ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires.’ The Majority Report with Sam Seder: “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires w/ Juan Cole – MR Live – 12/5/18” Note: There […]
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religion
America’s Dark History of Organized anti-Semitism Re-emerges in Today’s Far Right
By Bradley W. Hart | – (The Conversation) – Hours after Robert Bowers allegedly walked into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 people, investigators told the media that Bowers appeared to have acted alone and fit what experts call the “lone mass shooter profile.” A memorial outside Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Oct. 29, […]
On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sam Harris’s error-ridden and bigoted “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Religion” (Norton, 2005) singles out Islam for special opprobrium. Although Harris lambastes politicians of the Religious Right for having no special knowledge or credentials, the fact is that he himself has no credentials to write […]
Juan Cole @ Rising up With Sonali on “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace”
RISING UP WITH SONALI KOLHATKAR: FEATURING JUAN COLE – Islam is the youngest of the world’s major religions – and sadly the most misunderstood especially in the West. A whopping 1.5 billion humans identify as Muslim. Yet there are political forces that have interpreted an extremist version of the religion and there are racist forces […]
The ‘Blue Wave’ Was Also a ‘Muslim Wave’
( Otherwords.org) – In the most Islamophobic election in history, Muslim candidates scored big wins by embracing progressive policies. By Domenica Ghanem | November 7, 2018 With the Muslim Ban, the promotion of torturer Gina Haspel to CIA director, and increases in hate crimes, it’s been a rough year for us Muslims in the United […]
The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia
This essay has just been published in Social Research: An International Quarterly, Volume 85, No. 3, Fall 2018, pp. 557-572. The whole issue is about essential books, and includes Lisa Anderson on Frantz Fanon, Rebecca Goldstein on Spinoza, and many other great essays. I recommend getting it. I wrote about the Qur’an in modern literature […]
Refugee Muslim Women that Trump wouldn’t Have Let in, win House Seats
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With some 100 congressional victories, women staged a pink wave in the face of Trump’s tone of misogyny and feckless patriarchy. But what is interesting is that the pink wave isn’t exclusively white, exemplifying difference feminism more than the old Second Wave. For the first time in history, two Native […]
The Qur’an insists that Synagogues and Churches be Preserved and Respected
The Qur’an, the Muslim scripture recited by the Prophet Muhammad 610-632 AD, preaches ecumenical harmony. The Cow 2:113 castigated Jews and Christians for each denying the truth of the other’s religion, even though they both believe in the Bible: “The Jews say, ‘The Christians have nothing to stand on’; and the Christians say, ‘The Jews […]
US Voters poised to Elect 2 Muslim Women to Congress
by Nova SAFO | – Chicago (AFP) – US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, marking a historic first even as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric has been on the rise. Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, is all but certain to be elected to the US […]
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