My stepson, Ty Cascia, passed away October 24, 2022 at the young age of 18, and with his death my...
A sign of the times…American university in Turkey flouts Turkish ban on headscarves. This article (from the Chronicle of Higher Education) is an apt reminder of...
The family down the street from me has a 20-foot-long effigy of a body hanging from the branch of a tree in their front lawn. It...
The Islamosphere is filled with excellent (and not so excellent) blogs by, and about, Muslims living in the West, trying to practice their Deen. Yet in...
Khalid Hosseini’s new novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is his second, following the much-acclaimed first, “Kite Runner”. Having not had the opportunity yet to read his...
“For the first time, God has competition“, Pat Mooney, the ETC group. This is one of the quotes that the rector of Imperial College London, Sir...
“Manners maketh man,” insisted William of Wykeham, the fourteenth century English churchman and Chancellor of England to Richard II. So significant is this wisdom that it...
Dallas area newspaper Star Telegram printed an Islamophobic opinion-piece by Cal Thomas, accusing all Muslims of being a “fifth column”. Thomas basically blames the trial result...
*The conclusion or answer to the question of permissibility can be found towards the bottom of this article, after an analysis of the many opinions on...
Bountiful, B.C.: The first thing that comes to mind is a recollection of the media frenzy surrounding the ultra-fundamentalist Mormon community, which under their so-called “prophet”...
*See this entry on Firedoglake blog. Cross-posted on Dailykos & Streetprophets See this great video on Dallas Morning News with one of the jurors* Seems like...
