https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to salman rushdie en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/25/what-salman-rushdies-attacker-shares-insurrectionist-ashli-babbitt Several years ago I happened to sit next to Salman Rushdie at dinner when he was at UC-Santa Barbara to give a talk. I asked him why he didn’t have any security guards around him. “I have to live my… Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:59:10 EDT Mark Juergensmeyer 8c007160-ba66-4cad-996b-814ed4d07bf5 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/17/vile-attack-salman-rushdie-reminds-us-value-free-society-our-outrage-more-about-criminal When it was published in 1988, The Satanic Verses wasn’t immediately controversial. But the charged politics of Islam and the West meant some kind of blowback to Salman Rushdie’s novel was likely: The Iran-Iraq War had just ended and the… Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:15:54 EDT Haroon Moghul a3220164-ceaa-464c-8e5e-ee6406b154ca https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/21/religion-episode-aziz-ansari-and-cultural-politics-muslim-self-representation To call Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None “peak TV” is not to do it justice. It has a lightness to it that makes it a relief from the overwrought self-importance of shows that define the medium for the… Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:30:22 EDT Timothy Gutmann 4e3237f5-80e8-4a6b-a67a-ac66fb49a6c7 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/04/15/margaret-thatcher-muslims-perspective Did you hear the one about Margaret Thatcher’s funeral? Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:37:13 EDT Amir Dastmalchian 8cafd9c3-5d37-42ae-a130-50b5dff43c3c https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/16/iranian-musician-receives-death-threats But it’s politics, not religion, at stake here. Wed, 16 May 2012 06:14:36 EDT Hussein Rashid f1596f32-5a4a-41ac-bc94-ac1fa14d819b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/02/20/writers-murder-raises-fears-death-decree Kadivar’s condemnation of all fatwas that call for the death of a “blasphemer” or “apostate” is in the spirit of his general approach to Islamic law. In his opinion as a legal scholar, an interpretation of Islam is fully compatible with the provisions of the UN declaration of Human Rights. When I asked him if he was optimistic about the possibility of reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a reform that would bring Islam into congruence with Human Rights ideas, he answered affirmatively and assertively. “Yes,” he said, “I am optimistic. That is why I am writing.” Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:14:11 EST Shalom Goldman 29915398-02cf-4373-a2cd-c6026232849a https://religiondispatches.org/2010/07/05/heresies-christopher-hitchens 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… Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:31:11 EDT Austin Dacey 0d7cb450-b7db-4b22-b352-0a0ae2af97fa https://religiondispatches.org/2009/09/08/satanic-or-silly-does-yale-press-censorship-cartoons-insult-muslims While the rioting over the Danish cartoons seems to be well behind us, Yale University Press recently removed the images from a new scholarly work on the topic. Do Muslim extremists need a scholarly book as pretext with two wars being fought in Muslim nations and an ongoing crisis in Gaza? The problem isn’t with these images, but with the ubiquitous Islamophobia in the United States. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:28:51 EDT Daniel Martin Varisco 38857020-80fb-4e32-a186-90810b1ae126