Negative Space: Islam
- Handmaid’s Tale experiences backlash over handling of religion
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Fans of Margaret Atwood’s new television show turn against the series after revelations the story is a metaphor for Islam’s treatment of women.
- But the rhetoric’s so much better here under the tragedy!
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Want to stop domestic terrorism? Take seriously those who say they want to kill. Want to stop the oppression of women and the gay community? Take seriously those who say they want to literally enslave women and kill gays.
- The Coming of Coffee to the Near East
- From its origin among the Sufi of Yemen, coffee spread throughout the Muslim world. It generated controversy as it spread because it was a new thing and religious leaders needed to decide if it was forbidden or not.
- Drinking and Attitudes toward Drinking in a Muslim Community
- J. Midgley surveys Cape Town and finds that the low rates of reported drinking among the Muslim community match “previous findings”.
- The Great Coffee Controversy
- As with other drugs, it isn’t coffee itself that attracts prohibition, but rather, who is drinking it and the fact that they are gathering together that causes uneasiness and fear in rulers.
- Hashish and the Arabs
- In Arabia, marijuana may have been the drug of choice of those who could not afford wine. As today, prejudice against marijuana use may have reflected class warfare.
- Republicans and America must provide an alternative
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If America does not provide an alternative to the evils of progressivism gone awry in the world, it is lost.
- Society and the Social Life of the Coffeehouse
- While visiting coffeehouses, people could show hospitality outside of its traditional place in the home: they could even buy rounds for the bar, so to speak, and show hospitality to strangers. The actions described here in coffeehouses strongly resembles what we see men do in bars: talk trash about women, tell tall tales, and listen to music.
- Support for Riverheads teacher and Christianity lesson
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Community, ACLU, President rally around teacher who forced Muslim students to write the Lord’s Prayer in Latin.
- Wine, Coffee, and the Holy Law
- From its introduction to Islamic culture, coffee has been equated with wine, an explicitly forbidden drug. Part of the controversy is the application of traditional but apocryphal sayings of the prophet to this new drink.
- Young adults arrested trying to join extremists
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Parents, authorities do not understand factors that lead to joining extremist organization based in New York City. Should the Feds treat them as terrorists?
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- 2,000 Muslim child marriage immigration cases in 10 years
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“Between 2007 and 2017, there were 8,686 petitions for spousal or fiancé visas for or on behalf of minors. And during that same period, 4,749 minors on spousal or fiancé visas got green cards. Even while the United States was claiming to fight sex trafficking in underage girls, our own immigration system was rewarding and promoting the sexual trafficking of girls as young as thirteen.”
