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...advocates of the ban, women who wear integral veils are simultaneously victims and perpetrators. They represent a surreptitious (if at the same time excessively visible) threat, namely the insidious spread of radical, Salafist Islam??and hence a religious and implicitly political menace. The proposed ban targets the practice as fundamentally at odds with French republican principles: both secularism and a (historically recent) commitment to gender equality. The new law thus seems, at first glance, to be a logical— and legal—extension of the commitments outlined in a 2004 law on “la?...
...doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show.” Though he claimed it was just a warning, not a threat, by comparing the producers of South Park to the Dutch filmmaker who was killed for his film criticizing Islam??s treatment of women, Al-Amrikee did indeed threaten the lives of the producers. In addition, radical group Revolution Muslim posted the addresses of Comedy Central’s offices on its website, thus endangering the employees of the network...
...aspirations are to any other community,” Cajee says. “Just as the media around us has the power to forge stereotypes, it also has the power to shatter them.”Indeed, because the photographs reject media stereotypes in order to focus on Islam??s spiritual elements, we are able to consider the religion not as constantly problematic but rather as a peaceful way of life. “We can see the complexity, the beauty of the Muslim world. The exhibit highlights the crucial relationship between religious adherence and cultural values...
...long political pamphlet a labor of pure hate. It was born out of one purpose: to sink the ship of Obama like Corsi did to that of John Kerry four years before. But unfortunately for him, his allegations about Obama’s “extensive connections to Islam?? and continued drug use into law school and beyond failed to stop the campaign for change. One can only wonder how full of spite Corsi must be now, if this was how he was before his desires were thwarted. —Sanders I. Bernstein is the outgoing...
Lucy Caldwell’s recent piece (“Lessons From Mumbai,” column, Dec. 3) on the terrorist attacks on Mumbai was deeply unsettling. Her elliptical logic re-frames a complex historical issue as a simplistic issue of ‘radical Islam??, a dangerous oversimplification of the struggle that precludes nuanced dialogue on issues of national security not only in India but around the world...