“The sheikh is my best friend,” shotus Father Mpinge. My site-partner Hafsa and I smile, too. The sheikh-in-question is actually the imam of the largest mosque in town. Mpinge is the parish priest of St. Francis, the largest Catholic congregation. We didn’t expect such a statement from him. As it turns out, the priest and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘islam’
Bed net + mosquito = malaria?
August 24th, 2009
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Asma is sitting in front of me on a hospital bed holding her son Abdalla’s hand. He’s lying down, semi-conscious, with a chloroquine drip in his arm. She’s wearing a black abaya with gold feather trim at the sleeves. She’s absolutely beautiful. Abdalla was sick – vomiting and in pain – so she took him [...]
The feeling of common prayer
August 9th, 2009
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I was speaking with a friend about prayer in Islam. For him, praying was a way to put the world and all else out of mind – represented in a somatic sense by the placing of one’s hands to either side of the head as if to say, “Get behind me, world”. Then he would [...]
Sharia and the State
November 13th, 2008
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I’ve finished up a review of Noah Feldman’s The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State. It’s not actually all review – there’s analysis, too. It definitely would not fit here, so it’s been published through GoogleDocs. Take a peek, eh?Brauhn – Feldman and Sharia and the StateTechnorati Tags: islam, sharia, democracy
President Barack Hussein Obama II
November 4th, 2008
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We have elected our 44th President. He is an American who grew up among other cultures. He is an American who has overcome great obstacles, but who has persevered. He is an American who represents the possible futures for the youth of this nation, and for the youth of the world. But he is an [...]
Voting Images
November 4th, 2008
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From the Huffington Post, Amazing Voting Images. I’ve included a few in particular because I find them particularly important for America: Technorati Tags: islam, election, america, obama
Interfaith Coalitions and Revolution
October 29th, 2008
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I was sitting there in my “Introduction to the Middle East and Islamic Politics” course today, listening to Dr. Hashemi lecture about the relationship between authoritarian states and their effect on political expression. He did this through a case study of Iran, explaining the ways in which politicized Islam grew to be a legitimate outlet [...]
Religion and Politics – A Long Post
October 24th, 2008
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New post up at the DU Interfaith Student Alliance blog: http://du-interfaith.blogspot.com/
Choosing “The American Dream”
October 12th, 2008
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The Interfaith Youth Core continues to do good work. I’ve posted at the Bridge-Builders NING site to this effect: http://bridge-builders.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2315767:BlogPost:3621
