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Shootings at Kansas Jewish Community Centers: a case of domestic terrorism
Police patrol the Jewish Community Center campus on Monday morning (April 14), the day after a gunman killed 2 people there. Religion News Service photo by Sally Morrow This image is available for Web...
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What to call acts of terrorism committed by group of Muslims? Islamic?...
Al-Qaeda terrorism, hitting World Trade Center from Wikipedia A few days ago, I published a blog post on how the language of the 9/11 Memorial Museum might unwittingly be reinforcing the claims of...
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Steadfastly clinging to the metaphors of ancestors today, as our ancestors...
Abraham’s sacrifice of Isma’il. Persian miniature depicting Abraham's sacrificing his son. A few weeks ago, I was teaching a session on the Qur’an at a Christian seminary in Denver (Iliff Seminary)....
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Turbulence: tranquility through the storms
Flight through clouds from Shutterstock. Because of my work, I get to fly a lot. Have to fly a lot. Sometime ago I wrote a reflection about the meaning of airports. Today was a bit different. It...
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What is the religion of George Clooney’s fiancé, Ms. Amal Alamduddin? Druze?...
Ms. Amal Alamuddin from Ms. Alamuddin's barrister website. The news that George Clooney, the perpetual bachelor, had gotten engaged to Amal Alamuddin, a stunning Arab beauty, who (ahem, ahem) is also a...
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276 Enslaved Nigerian Girls: The atrocity of Boko Haram
Nigerian girls from Facebook campaign to Bring Back Our Girls The news out of Nigeria is beyond words. Hundreds of girls were stolen from their schools on April 15th. The girls ranged in age between...
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Shaykh Nazim, a giant in spreading Sufism in the West, passes away
Shaykh Nazim from his Facebook page. News out of Cyprus indicate that one of the most prominent Sufi leaders of the past century, Shaykh Nazim, has passed away at age 92. Muhammad Nazim Adil...
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Opening the Human Heart, Opening the Qur’an: The Fatiha
The Qur’an opens not with the story of creation, but with the opening. The beginning of the Qur’an is not: “In the beginning Allah created the heavens and the earth”, but rather: “In the name of God,...
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Sharing Haghia Sophia
Haghia Sophia from the ground level from Wikipedia. We are in Turkey on an educational tour, looking at the shared Islamic, Christian, and Jewish heritages here. While we were in Istanbul, that...
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From Ibrahim to Khalil: Healing through the flames, American Islam and...
“Relatives and friends of the al-Kaware family carry the seven bodies to the mosque during their funeral in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip.” courtesy of Creative Common Licensing. When we look at the...
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