Hizballah’s Religious Cleansing of Lebanon, and How Loosening Sanctions on Iran Will Make It Worse
Building a safe haven, training ground, and university for the terrorists of tomorrow.
January 31, 2022
British Islam at a Crossroads
And the Hungarian Jew who helped found England’s first mosque.
The man who held four worshippers hostage in the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas was not a member of America’s large and diverse Muslim population, but a British subject who came to the U.S. to carry out an attack. And as Ed Husain notes, radical and violent understandings of Islam have a great deal of influence in the United Kingdom. Looking back through Islamic history, from Mohammad himself to the 17th-century Muslim emperor who built the Taj Mahal, Husain draws a contrast between a legacy of tolerance, respect for learning, and cultivation of the arts and what is preached in many British mosques today:
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British Islam at a Crossroads
And the Hungarian Jew who helped found England’s first mosque.
One of America’s Most Prominent Reform Rabbis Is Taking a Stand for Zionism and for Judaism’s Religious Core
There’s no contradiction between prophetic values and peoplehood.
From the Depths of a Death Camp, Relics of Jewish Faith
Sh’ma pendants from Sobibor.
The Problem of Writing about Prayer
“I often feel great disjunction between my own experience of prayer and what many people say about it.”