Life Before Death:
When my western friends talk bad about Arabs, I think of places like UAE or Qatar where we are extremely welcome and safe. The idea that we are in a global religious war is untrue. Certainly there are wars unfolding that have religious basis, but this is not World War [...]
Algerian women are slowly doing what women in few Islamic countries are able to do — they are gaining independence from the men in their lives. I couldn’t be happier.
Women make up 70 percent of Algeria’s lawyers and 60 percent of its judges. Women dominate medicine. Increasingly, women contribute more to household income [...]
Women in Muslim countries are routinely beaten, raped, stoned, and murdered by the men around them. As such, the Muslim world is the main front in the battle for sexual equality. Of course, you wouldn’t know it by the way that American feminists act or speak.
Eve Ensler takes this line of reasoning to [...]
It turns out that Muhammed himself was actually a pretty decent guy. Yesterday, the Anchoress posted a conversation she had with Ali — a “reformist” Muslim. She started the conversation after she became curious about this question: “Is this something Muslims are also taught to do? Is there a “turn the other cheek” component to [...]
Hey, Folks: There’s a great article by Marvin Olasky just published online at Townhall, listing resources for learning about the Islamic religion. If like me you’re pretty ignorant on this major world religion’s specifics, you might want to note a few of his recommendations.