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The best-selling scholar says that the Bible is more violent than the Qur’an, that religious fundamentalism is political, and more.

The hijab has gone from symbol to object, and the people associated with it are that object. Alex W. attacked and killed a piece of cloth.

The recent murder in Germany, and the ensuing silence, reveal a shocking level of tolerance for Islamophobia. But hate is seldom focused nor easily sated.

Two Op-Eds in two weeks make the same unsupportable charge about Barack Obama: why?

Though it sounds good just on its face, NYC Mayor Bloomberg has made the right decision by threatening to veto the proposal to add two Muslim holidays to the school calendar. And no, it’s not a pander to Jewish voters.

Was Michael Jackson a supernatural magician or an icon of self-immolation? Both? The physical body is gone, the musical productivity has ceased, the capacity to speak for himself is no more, so now MJ is a wonderfully ambiguous figment of our imagination. Three religion scholars discuss the life, legend, meaning, and myth of one of the world’s most talented, successful, and perhaps tortured performers.

Why did coverage of the murder of a pregnant Muslim woman merely record the outrage “in the Muslim world”?

French President Sarkozy declared recently that the burqa “will not be welcome on our territory,” as it is a symbol of the enslavement of women. If the president is trying to foster equality of women, is this the best way to go about it?

In a recent Times Op-Ed neoconservative Edward Luttwak labeled Barack Obama “an apostate from Islam,” and that “would cause… complications in our dealings with the Islamic world,”

A noted scholar of Islamic law explains the apostasy fallacy…