Monthly Archives: March 2011

Muslim denial about what being Muslim is about

A big issue that we have in the “public discourse” today is that we allow Muslims to talk about their religion in a way that we (“we” here meaning the mainstream) would not tolerate from white evangelical Christians (though we … Continue reading

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The law of Arab averages

We’ve seen the secular face of the revolutions so far (though if the Bahrain popular revolt succeeds I can’t see how it wouldn’t be more religiously inflected), but how long was this going to last? Yemen, the most backward of … Continue reading

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Queens, consorts, etc.

A recent criticism in The Atlantic of a glowing portrait in Vogue of the wife of the dictator of Syria made me wonder about something which has sometimes crossed my mind. First, as an aside I have to say that … Continue reading

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