Female Imams

Chinese Islam retains characteristics that set it apart. The communist revolution with its emphasis on gender equality has left its mark here. Mao famously said that “women hold up half the sky”, a lesson China’s Muslims seem to have imbibed well.

Palestine: Sweet and Sour Ties

Back then, the majority of Chinese identified with the Palestinian cause, and equated the Israeli with the Japanese invader. The Chinese Communist Party, under Mao (-1976), was openly pro-Arab and anti-Israel.

In truth, Israel had bought China’s love in the mid-1980s, with American military technology. Despite US fury and objection, Israel had secretly sold American-donated military technology to China

Eid Mubarak and Hajj Mabruk!

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The Boston Globe is at it again with their pictorial coverage of Islam’s most celebrated rituals! The traditional prerequisite shots of pilgrims circling the Kaaba creating a blurred photo-effect are augmented with plentiful photos of Muslims climbing to and praying at Mount Arafat, Noor Mountain Zamzam water collection systems, modernized campsite accommodations, Saudi military parade stills, and an inside view into a new light-rail metro line.

The Hijab Alternative

If all men were blind, would Sharia grant women the right to walk naked in the streets?

It is that men have eyes that seems to be the one and only reason why the ultra-religious insist on the necessity for women to cover up.

This is proof that, contrary to ultra-religious oxymoronic views, cultural norms and habits trump any religious teaching.

Muslim Schoolgirls and General Bad-Assery

Muslim school girls from St. Maaz high school practise [sic] Chinese wushu martial arts inside the school compound in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, July 8th 2008….

Dalai Lama Gives Shout-Out To All His Uighurs

His holiness, the fourteenth Dalai Lama risked the ire of Chinese Authorities when he came out explicitly in support of the Muslim Uyghur minority yesterday, Uighurs have fought for equal rights and autonomy in Western China. “Let us not forget about dem Uighurs in East Turkestan… dey be resisting oppressions and shit.” He told a [...]

“Surprise, surprise! More ‘angry Muslims’ killing people!”

The recent clashes between Han Chinese and Turkic Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang province have made the front pages here in the States and around the world as of late.

Headlines flashing “Tensions worsen in China’s West,” “Deadly ethnic Violence in China,” and “Uighurs vs. Han Chinese” have been the some of the eye-catching titles of some of this past week’s articles and news reports about the violence and the bloodshed in the former Islamic Uighur Kingdom.

Arab League Not Interested in Arresting Sudan’s Head

The Arab League respectfully declined the International Criminal Court’s request the pan-Arab organ arrest Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir. The ICC has charged the leader for war crimes — crimes against humanity and genocide — committed in Darfur, and issued an arrest warrant. The Arab League only has three members who are fully party to the [...]