
Tag: islam

To distract us from all the horrible things in the world, here’s a great story on how a Catholic library in Cairo began collecting street-level Islamic religious texts in the 1950s and have compiled an invaluable collection of material that would have otherwise been lost. This is the by the scholar, as Islamic woman herself, […]
France’s insistence on requiring masks while banning burqas mirrors the fetishization of bare faces among the anti-lockdown crowd.
Carly Fiorina claims that her B.A. in medieval history she received nearly 40 years ago gives her qualifications to fight ISIS. Yeah, no. Medieval historian David Perry with the smackdown: As a mediev
While I appreciate Duke University’s initial agreement to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer once a week, its quickly succumbing to the racist blatherings of Franklin Graham and the anti-Islam fanatics that dominate the American right show both that the acceptance of Islam anywhere in American society is tenuous at best and that college and […]
If there’s one thing we can say about the Saudi government, it’s that their commitment to subtlety is unmatched except by the Russians. At least when Mexico decided to build that monstrosi
Charli at Duck has an interesting notion: One of the articles I read as I prepped for this trip suggested that either the Holy See should lose this status or, to be fair, other religions should be rep
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