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The current battle, contrary to much coverage, isn’t between Islamist and secular forces.

The Flood story forces us to grapple with the deeply impersonal forces of the universe that are set against human civilization.

A mild-mannered schoolteacher doubles as an education-defending Muslim heroine.

Inmates at Guantanamo Bay are hunger striking in an attempt to make their suffering visible while children at a camp in Florida are using the fantasy of hunger as entertainment.

Despite the fact that, like Buddhism, Islam prohibits murder, the two are treated quite differently when it comes to its adherents committing acts of violence.

In his UN speech on Iran, Israel’s PM attempted to force a zero-sum game of destroying the opposition by force.

Individual and group understandings of their ontological positions are ignored to everyone’s peril when we relegate theology to historical study.

I’ll trade you your paternalism for my nationalism.

Religions are richly variable in their organizations, belief systems, rituals, and practices. This is true across cultures and history. Grand statements about what “all religions” say or believe about…

How Islamophobia makes us less safe.