Islam Blog

Posts on understanding Islam.

What is a mosque?  This is an important and pressing question. I am reminded of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's observation: "One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we...

I have been ruminating further about Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor's 9/11 address.  In my previous blog I questioned his presupposition that those who oppose the Park51 Project (the 'Ground Zero Mosque) must be bigots, as well as his assumption that ignorance is the cause of...

This post gives three updates on Nagla Al-Imam, one of the most outspoken human rights activists living in an Islamic country.  This post discusses: her second kidnapping and beating, her response to allegations that she promoted sexual harassment of Jewish girls on Arab television, and ...