March 20 - 26 - Maydan

“I am not a racist, but . . .”: The perversity of the recent ECJ ruling on the “headscarf issue”

The Immanent Flame

Carlo Invernizzi Accetti discusses racism and the recent European Court of Justice ruling stating that employers can fire those who insist on wearing hijab in the workplace.
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Majority of states have all-Christian congressional delegations

PEW Research Center

Pew Research Center has released new date showing the religious affiliation of members of Congress. Over half of US states (28) have all Christian delegations.
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America's Most Prominent Anti-Muslim Activist Is Welcome at the White House

The Atlantic

Known Islamophobe and head of ACT for America, Brigitte Gabriel claims to have a “direct line” to the White House, with Michael Flynn even sitting on her organization’s board.
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Black, Queer, And Muslim: On Faith, Self-Care, And Identity

Nylon

Black, queer Muslims discuss their relationships to religion, sexual orientation, and race through intersectional analysis.
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New itineraries in the study of Islam and the state

The Immanent Flame

Iza Hussin responds to Noah Saloman’s For The Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State through a comparative review of recent scholarship on the “state” in Islamic studies.
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How Daesh uses poetry as a recruitment tool

TRT World

Waed Athamneh examines how Daesh, also known as the Islamic State, uses poetry, not so much the Qur’an, as a powerful recruitment tool.
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American Muslims Are Young, Politically Liberal, and Scared

The Atlantic

A survey from the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding shows that the demographic of Muslim voters are young, liberal, and anxious about their political futures.
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Peter Sanders photographs Muslims in China to dispel negative notions about Islam

The National

British photographer, Peter Sanders discusses his life as a photographer and his new exhibit on Chinese Muslims, which he hopes will broaden people’s assumptions about diversity in Islam.
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The mystery of Khalid Masood’s journey into violence and terror

The Guardian

The motives of Khalid Masood, the London attacker at Parliament, are and will perhaps remain a mystery. The 52-year old had a history of violent action from before he converted to Islam while in prison.
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How Trump's America Has Changed the Way I Wear My Identities

Vice

Lamya H talks about how the intersection of being queer and Muslim in Trump’s America leaves some with a feeling that there are no safe spaces to hide from always bearing a marker of difference.
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Pakistani Artist’s Concept Art Of A Sci-Fi Pakistan Will Blow You Away

Trending Pakistan

Illustrator and designer, Omar Gilani has recently put forward a version of a sci-fi Pakistan, drawing inspiration from the likes of Game of Thrones, Star Wars, and beyond.
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Islamophobia and the end of liberalism?

IRDP Project

University of California, Berkeley’s Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project will be hosting a conference connecting Islamophobia to the crisis of the post-Cold War order.
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Mosques Across America Continue to Receive Threatening Letters

Muftah

American mosques have continued to received threatening letters from groups such as “Americans for a Better Way,” some of which have yet to be investigated by the FBI. Anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts have increased in the past few months.
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Understanding the Relationship Between the Quran and Extremism

The Huffington Post

Islamic Studies scholar, Joseph Lumbard argues that the key to defeating violent and extremist interpretations of the Qur’an is not by “modernizing” it, but by appreciating the classical scholarly exegetical tradition and the kind of nuances that it offered.
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The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism