Articles — The Revealer

The Reformation Will Be Televised: On ISIS, Religious Authority and the Allure of Textual Simplicity

January 26, 2015

The religious fundamentalism of ISIS is not evidence that Islam needs a Reformation, but that one has already occurred...

Numbers Lie: Hacking at Islam

September 30, 2011

Numbers never tell the whole story--which is why liberal pleas to rely solely on science and facts carry so...

Creating Shari'ah Panic

March 31, 2011

As Adam Sewer of WaPo writes, a new report by The Center for American Progress debunks anti-shari'ah rhetoric....

Give Us This Day Our Daily Links

March 7, 2011

Jesus Greeks! Of course we don't endorse primary candidates (Mitt Romney 5.0)! But if we could... Jews in...

Let My People Go

February 6, 2011

In a recent interview Egyptian-born journalist Mona Eltahawy tells Bill Maher (notoriously anti-religion, Maher so often perfectly demonstrates the confounding...

Sharia Creeps

January 30, 2011

MoJo‘s Tim Murphy does the Shari’ah in America round-up so we don’t have to.

It's Not Even About A Mosque This Time

November 4, 2010

Elissa Lerner: Have you been losing sleep over the crippling anxiety that Islamic law might one day trump Constitutional...

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Islamophobia:Stoking Fears about an American Community

August 16, 2010

by Joshua M. Z. Stanton When John F. Kennedy was running for president in 1960, fear-mongers raised the specter of...

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Shari'a and Women's Rights in Afghanistan

August 6, 2010

by Najam Haider This article is part of an ongoing series that will examine what Shari’ah is, how the...

Discrimination Pays

August 5, 2010

Got a strong hatred for a faith other than your own? Forget finding tolerance; find a book agent!

Muslims at Ground Zero

August 4, 2010

Yesterday, plans to build a Muslim religious center near Ground Zero were approved. Later in the day, Mayor...