Blogs
June 04, 2008
Jerusalem – He is a professor of Islamic Studies at Al Quds University in Jerusalem, and he has s...
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March 24, 2008
Last week, the Mayor of Vancouver stood on the steps of a downtown Catholic church to make an imp...
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March 07, 2008
It seems the only time we hear about Canada’s Sikh community in the media is when there is ...
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March 24, 2008
Children being raised in a religious environment is a volatile issue, at least to anti-theists. A...
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March 04, 2008
In Ontario’s it’s often the little things that kick up the biggest fuss. This time, i...
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Tip:
At long last, the report from Gerard Bouchard and Charles Taylor on reasonable accommodation in Quebec has been released, and provides a wealth of story ideas for reporters covering religion in Canada. For an abridged pdf of the full report, check out this webpage for "Building the Future: A Time for Reconciliation". Bear in mind that the Commission was launched out of concerns in Quebec over Muslim headscarves, Sikh kirpans, and the possibility of sharia law coming to Canada….so the implications of accommodating religious practices, values, traditions and rights are analyzed within the framework of Canadian society and national values. Here is the website:
http://www.accommodements.qc.ca
Books recommended by Muslim Scholar Mustafa Abu Sway for journalists covering Islam:
Books to introduce Islam and the Palestinian Issue:
- John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed: Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think?
- John L. Esposito: What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam
- John L. Esposito: The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?
- Sachiko Murata and William C. Chittick: The Vision of Islam
- Michael Sells: Approaching the Qur’an
- Abdulaziz Sachedina: The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism
- Edward Said: Orientalism
- Edward Said: Culture and Imperialism
- Edward Said: Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
- Edward Said: The Question of Palestine
- Tim Wallace-Murphy: What Islam Did for Us: Understanding Islam's Contribution to Western Civilization
- Jimmy Carter: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
- Ilan Pappe: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
- Amira Hass: Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
- Saree Makdisi: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
- Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu-Lughod (Editors): Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
- Daniel McGowan and Marc Ellis: Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine
