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Most of us are watching the unfolding events in Egypt with awe and anticipation hoping its citizens will nonviolently supplant a repressive and dictatorial regime with a democracy. Those of us who have physical or emotional ties to Israel see a more complicated picture. Israel is watching the…

A bloggingheads discussion about the Muslim Brotherhood and the American right wing panic.

Have no fear, the Brotherhood is not here

Beck’s irresponsible, fact-free rant about “our survival.”

A single document and a discredited prosecution tactic have fueled the Islamophobia industry, now spreading falsehoods about the Muslim Brotherhood.

Obama’s a Muslim! Muslim Brotherhood! Shari’ah!

Many commentators have assumed that somehow Egypt would follow Iran’s unique trajectory.

The Week in Religion, Poetically.

The debate has focused on the new Muslim community center’s location in lower Manhattan, but the opposition (who refer to it as the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’) is driven by a deeper, reflexive antagonism. They stand against what proponents of the center are setting out to create: a space for American Islam.

Christopher Hitchens cannot be accused of being a name-dropper. The names come positively flinging off the pages of his newly-released memoir, Hitch-22, but can he be blamed for befriending some of the most interesting and influential figures of his time, like Salman Rushdie, Edward…