The Berlin Muslims reforming Islam, one co-ed prayer meeting at a time
A female cleric. Men and women praying together in the same room. Berlin’s liberal mosques are working toward an Islamic reformation, all while avoiding death threats. By Sebastian Leber | Published on September 21, 2018 5:45 pm German security services were recently in touch with one of Berlin’s best-known Muslim clerics. He should take their warnings seriously, they […]
A Muslim Role Model for Today: Emir Abdelkader
“The Emir represents the values and attributes that we want to inculcate in our American Muslim sons and daughters. We want his life to be celebrated in our mosques, in our Sunday schools and in our Friday sermons. We see in him a bridge of compassion and humanity connecting us with our brothers and sisters […]
Are U.S. Muslims Patriotic? Why Don’t They Assimilate?
Does Islam need reform to peacefully integrate with America, or do we simply need a more honest public discourse on Islam? In 1948 in Dayton, Ohio, twenty American Muslim men and women huddled into a small conference room to hold the first national meeting of American Muslims—the Jalsa Salana . Modest in means, size, and […]
Who killed my friend Yameen Rasheed?
On Sunday morning, Maldivians woke up to the shocking news of the brutal killing of the 29-year-old prominent blogger, Yameen Rasheed. Over four years ago, in October 2012, Maldivians were similarly shocked by the brutal murder of a prominent reformist religious scholar and member of parliament, Afrasheem Ali. Both Rasheed and Ali died after multiple […]
JAMES LYONS: Reforming Islam
Perhaps one of the most crucial peace proposals of our time was made on Jan. 1, 2015, when Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi challenged leading Sunni jurists and theologians with initiating a reformation of Islam that has not happened in more than 1,400 years. Eventually, such a reformation must include the leading Shiite clerics as well. […]