All Posts Tagged With: "osama-bin-laden"
The “Crisis” of Covering Islam in America: Q+A with Terry Mattingly
If there’s one religion blog that sets the standard when it comes to high quality coverage of religion-in-the-media, it’s GetReligion.org, a multi-contributor blog founded by veteran religion reporter Terry Mattingly (or, as he’s known online, tmatt.) The blog has a very specific angle: taking a critical look at how religion is, or isn’t, covered in [...]
28Jan2008 | Andrea Useem | 5 comments | Continued“Osama Bin-Who?” Native Deen, and Why American Muslims Shouldn’t Play the Victim
When ReligionWriter first heard that the American Muslim hip-hop group Native Deen had a new album out this winter, she wanted to buy it right away. Native Deen’s earlier album, The Deen You Know, was played more-or-less non-stop in RW’s car for months, at the request of her young sons, who loved to rock out [...]
14Jan2008 | Andrea Useem | 19 comments | Continued“To Make an Enemy of 500 Million People is Ludicrous”
In the last post, ReligionWriter was speaking with video and text blogger Amar Bakshi about the religious ideas he found while traveling in Britain.
In this segment, Bakshi shares the insights he gained as a roving blogger in Pakistan to explain why Osama bin Laden is so popular there, and how differing perceptions of his own [...]
Humanizing Iran, and Other Ways to Save the World with Summer Reading
If you liked Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, or any other novel strung poignantly between two continents, you’ll find much to like in Yamsin Crowther’s debut novel, The Saffron Kitchen, published several months ago by Penguin, which traces the bittersweet story of a young Iranian too headstrong [...]
25Jun2007 | Andrea Useem | 3 comments | ContinuedAuthor Profile: Eboo Patel on Making Pluralism Sexy
By Andrea Useem, Religion BookLine- Publishers Weekly, 5/30/2007 (reprinted here with permission.)
When most Americans look at Osama bin-Laden, they see a terrorist. Eboo Patel sees that and something more: To him, bin-Laden is a highly effective youth organizer.
“Al Qaeda has a phalanx of people who are focused on shaping the identities of young Muslims toward [...]
Book: Young Muslim Scholar Sees Violent Extremists as Effective Youth Organizers
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation (Beacon Press: July, 2007), is the memoir of Eboo Patel, a former
Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. in religion from Oxford, is founder and director the Interfaith Youth Corps, a Chicago-based group aimed at creating a movement of religious [...]