Islam

From Jewish Westchester To Radical Islam

The Convert Book Cover

Deborah Baker charts the complicated, often disturbing transformation of Margaret Marcus into Maryam Jameelah.

06/07/2011
Eric Herschthal
Staff Writer

The strangeness of Maryam Jameelah’s path to fundamentalist Islam is a major reason why many of her Muslim readers find her so attractive.

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Must-read story on the sharia scare: Jewish law could be next

Submitted by James Besser on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 07:50

In the “must read” category, check out Ron Kampeas' story headlined “Anti-Sharia Laws Stir Concerns that Halachah Could Be Next.”

Ron looks at the still-growing movement in states across the country to ban sharia, or Islamic law, a movement that the ADL's Abe Foxman called "camouflaged bigotry.”

Proponents of such legislation play on absurd fears of an Islamic plan to take over the legal system of the United States.

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The IDF Speaks: Violence and the West Bank

Submitted by Eric Herschthal on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 17:19

Wars are never pretty.  They're even uglier in the Middle East, where the lines between conflict and quiet are always in flux.  The images that greet us daily from the Muslim world are the most glaring; the endless rampage of hate-fueled violence makes you sick.  Forget about the millions who are cowed into silence; even more abhorrent is the constant stream of popular support violence receives.  Just look at The New York Times' front page story today on the many respe

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WaPo: PA taking "extreme steps" against radical imams

Submitted by James Besser on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 10:17

 It's a cliché in pro-Israel circles that the Palestinian Authority is doing nothing to curb anti-Israel, anti-Semitic incitement, but a story by the always-excellent Janine Zacharia in today's Washington Post tells a more nuanced story.

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Roger Cohen gets it right on Shariah fears

Submitted by James Besser on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 13:07

 Roger Cohen has a disturbing  column in today's New York Times on the artfully manipulated fear of an Islamic takeover of the United States through insidious, creeping Shariah law.

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Grant Request Revives Mosque Controversy

Pamela Geller, left, and LMDC board member Julie Menin.

Application for $5 million from federal fund decried as affront by critics, but board member says it will be decided strictly by grant criteria
Jewish groups mostly silent on issue.

11/23/2010
Adam Dickter
Assistant Managing Editor

News that the organization planning an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero has applied for $5 million in federal recovery funds for programming has reawakened a controversy that largely fell silent months ago.

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Election Day: One Party Will Protect Me, One Party Won't

Submitted by Jonathan Mark on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 19:40

 

Here's something to think about on Election Day. One party is Congress is almost always for Israel, one is not. Guess which?

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Abraham’s Children: Alone, Together

An Italian marriage contract, or ketubah, from 1782, featuring images of the Abraham’s Binding of Isaac.

‘Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam’ at New York Public Library:
The joy, and the complexity, of text.

10/26/2010
Eric Herschthal
Staff Writer

One approaches “Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam,” a new exhibit of religious texts at The New York Public Library, with caution. The animating idea might cause you to roll your eyes at its surface naiveté: at a time of heightened tensions among Muslims, Jews and Christians, the curators suggest we should emphasize what we all share in common.

Or should we?

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Blaming Islam Itself For Militancy

Submitted by Gary Rosenblatt on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 14:24

"Islam is a religion of peace."

That was the motion of a fascinating, highly charged debate last Wednesday night at NYUs Skirball Hall sponsored by Intelligence Squared, whose series of topical debates with experts in the field are always timely, lively and thought-provoking.

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Media Watch: ‘There Is No More Molly’

Seattle Weekly cartoonist Molly Norris.

Deadly fatwa turns journalist into a ‘ghost.’

10/05/2010
Jonathan Mark
Associate Editor

If a mosque near Ground Zero is a national story, let alone a Jewish story — as is the proposed burning of a Koran by an obscure Florida pastor; as is the perceived surge in Islamophobia — with each of these stories inspiring endless Jewish statements, columns, and rabbinic sermons from here to Israel, then what are we to make of Molly Norris?

Is she a Jewish story, too?

And when so many in the media have so focused on how “moderate” an imam can be, what are we to make of Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki?

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