Katha Pollitt, The Nation. April 16, 2008. Harvard's woman-only gym time has the Islamophobes out in full force. But let's get a grip: This isn't about terrorism, Osama bin Laden or burqas.
Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check. March 28, 2008. The opposition of prominent Islamic scholars to forced marriage is an important step in the fight for gender equality in the Muslim world.
Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 13, 2008. Harvard has instituted a women-only gym hour to accommodate Muslim women, and conservatives are calling it "discrimination" against Ivy League men.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. March 4, 2008. Obama's campaign draws attention to the fact that he’s a Christian, but does this carry the insinuation that it's a bad thing to be Muslim?
Kathryn Joyce, The Nation. February 19, 2008. Conservatives predict a catastrophe as white birthrates in the "West" fall. Their solution? Take away women's rights and compel reproduction.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: Election 2008. January 14, 2008. They claim "Islamists would renounce" Obama "and would try to execute him" because of his limited contact with Islam as a child.
Gary Younge, The Nation. December 24, 2007. The most potent bigots in Europe are not Muslims living in run-down housing projects, but white Christians in the corridors of power.
Jesse Wendel, Group News Blog AlterNet: PEEK. December 14, 2007. Aqsa Parvez's friends described her as someone who was drawn to Western culture even as her family adhered to a devout form of Islam
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: PEEK. December 4, 2007. Lucinda Marshall: One of the most super cool things about being a feminist is that you get blamed for pretty much everything.
Gregg Zachary, Africa Works AlterNet: PEEK. December 1, 2007. Gregg Zachary: There must be a way to condemn the Sudanese government for violence against minorities without defending attacks on core Islamic beliefs.
Taylor Marsh, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. November 29, 2007. Taylor Marsh: It's despicable but it's not surprising, because this is what wingnuts do best.
Satyam Khanna, AlterNet: PEEK. October 27, 2007. Satyam Khanna: Showing tolerance and respect for other cultures is interpreted as "butt-kissing" by far right conservatives.
Ali Eteraz, AlterNet. October 16, 2007. Reforming Islam is the only way to ensure that its individualist revolution doesn't take a darker turn than it already has.
Melissa McEwan, AlterNet: PEEK. September 20, 2007. Melissa McEwan: Republican Peter King is certain that the US' problems with radical Islam come down to there being too many darn mosques.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. August 1, 2007. Steve Benen: Tom Tancredo's encouraging terrorism for no reason, other than to add a tough-guy veneer to his ugly xenophobia.
Asma Khalid, Christian Science Monitor. April 28, 2007. I'd rather be considered "orthodox" than "moderate." True orthodoxy is simply the attempt to piously adhere to a religion's tenets.
