By Kishwar Risvi There has been much misinformation about Islam. Reports in Western media tend to perpetuate stereotypes that Islam is a violent religion and Muslim women are oppressed. Popular films like “American Sniper” reduce places like Iraq to dusty war zones, devoid of any culture or Continue Reading
Apocalypse Later: Millennial Evangelicals, Israel-Palestine, and the Kingdom of God
By Nick Shindo Street White evangelical Christians voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the recent presidential election, reaffirming the apparently unbreakable bond that has united conservative Christians and the GOP since Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Continue Reading
How the USSR’s effort to destroy Islam created a generation of radicals
By Amanda Erickson In 1929, Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin laid out his vision for Central Asia: "teaching the people of the Kirgiz Steppe, the small Uzbek cotton grower, and the Turkmenian gardener the ideals of the Leningrad worker." It was a tall order, especially when it came to religion. Continue Reading
THE ERASURE OF ISLAM FROM THE POETRY OF RUMI
By Rozina Ali A couple of years ago, when Coldplay’s Chris Martin was going through a divorce from the actress Gwyneth Paltrow and feeling down, a friend gave him a book to lift his spirits. It was a collection of poetry by Jalaluddin Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet, translated by Coleman Continue Reading
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