Musaji, Sheila - Articles by Sheila Musaji
Posted Jan 31, 2008

ARTICLES BY SHEILA MUSAJI

15 Saudi Schoolgirls Die in Fire Because They Were Not “Properly” Dressed  3/02 (extremism, response)
“A Common Word Between Us and You” An Appeal From Muslim Scholars For Dialogue and Peace  update 1/08 (interfaith)
A Constitutional Amendment to Ban Islam? 11/07 (Pedestrian Infidel, Islamophobia, response)
A Long History of Injustice Ignored - a number of articles about various Muslim countries 11/05 — A Long History of Injustice Ignored: The Muslims of China  11/1/05, updated 7/09 — A Long History of Injustice Ignored: The Moros of the Philippines  11/1/05
A Pax on Both Their Houses - Interfaith Peace Effort Ignored By Mainstream Media 12/07 (Iran)
A Plea for Unity 1989 (converts)
A Spiritual Jihad Against Terrorism - 5 parts   8/05 — Avoiding a Clash of CivilizationsIs There Such a Thing As Religious Terrorism?  11/05 (extremism)
A Synagogue in Fayetteville - Mazel Tov, Mabruk!  12/09 (interfaith, Muslims/Jews)
Aid Offered by Muslim’s Around the World for Katrina Victims  9/05
The American Muslim receives positive mention in HSPI Report on Countering Internet Radicalization  10/07
American Muslim Coalition Raises $10,000 for Backstoppers in Saint Louis  12/07
American Muslims, First Amendment Rights, Reciprocity, and Collective Guilt 12/09 (response)
American Muslims Must Accept That They Are Not Equivalent to Real Americans  10/07 (Islamophobia, Muslim holidays, response)
American Muslims Need Not Be Blind Followers  1991 (ijtihad)
American Muslims and Differences of Opinion Regarding Islam  5/6/07
American Muslims must defend the Constitution of the United States  11/09
An Overview of The 1993 North American Muslim Pow Wow  1993
An Opportunity  1989 (culture, Islam in America)
The Annenberg Foundation, William Ayers, and John McCain  11/08 (guilt by association)
Anti Muslim Rhetoric Reaching a Dangerous Level  11/09 (Fort Hood, Going Muslim article)
Apostasy and Freedom of Faith in Islam 4/08 updated 9/09 (freedom pledge, Former Muslims United)
Arab Writers Group Syndicate An Idea Whose Time Has Come 9/07
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Sharia Debate 2/08
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for Christian/Muslim dialogue on interest and economic justice  10/08
Are Muslims “The Enemy Within?”  7/07 (PEW poll of American Muslims, Islamophobia, interfaith)
Are religious messages appropriate as restaurant toy premiums?  12/08 (Long John Silvers Bible verses)
Ashura, A Muslim Blood Festival? 3/06 (Shiah, propoganda, Islamophobia)
Attack Dawah?  1990
Laleh Bakhtiar’s Qur’an Translation Controversy Over Verse 4:34   10/07 (women, abuse)
The Battle of the Films - Obsession and Fitna Versus Schism 4/08 (propaganda, Islamophobia, response)
Blacklisting of Professors  9/02 (Daniel Pipes, Campus Watch)
BOOK REVIEW: Me and You - Beyond Belief, Together: A Path to Peace All Our Faiths Can Share (David Liepert)  6/08
BOOK REVIEW: Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World (Michael Baegent)  10/09 (extremism)
BOOK REVIEW: Akbar Ahmed’s Journey Into Islam Offers A Blueprint To Avert A Clash of Civilizations 6/28/07
Book Review: Atlas of Creation (Harun Yahya)  10/09 (science, evolution, creationism)
Pat Buchanan and Ray McGovern Answer Helen Thomas’ “Why” Question 1/10
Call for Input in Drafting a Fatwa Calling for Justice and Condemning Terrorism  7/11/05
Can a Good Christian Be a Good American?  10/08 (propaganda, Islamophobia, response)
Can We Get Along?  (interfaith)
Catastrophe in Gaza - How Can the Cycle of Violence Be Stopped?  3/7/08
The Chickens Come Home to Roost - Losing our Civil Rights 4/08 (Patriot Act, Constitution)
Christian Brotherly Love Difficult For Some To Attain - Dove World Outreach Sign 8/09 (extremism, Islamophobia, interfaith)
Christian Clergyman Calls For Internment Camps for Muslims? 11/05 (J. Grant Swank, extremism, Islamophobia, interfaith)
Christian Extremist Pastors Pray for Death of Enemies Including President Obama  9/09 (extremism, Islamophobia, interfaith)
Christmas as a “Secular American” Holiday?  1992 (interfaith)
Congressman Keith Ellison and the Qur’an  1/07 updated 12/09 (Islamophobia, Constitution)
Danish Cartoons Wars, If at First You Don’t Succeed ... 2/08 (Islamophobia, response)
The Danish Cartoons 2/06 updated 10/09
Darfur Sudan Emergency  7/04
Dawah in the Public Schools?  11/04 (Constitution, response)
Disaster Response and the Death of the Ummah  10/05
Does Anyone Actually Listen to Phyllis Chessler’s Islamophobic Rantings? 4/08 (Islamophobia, response)
Does God Demand the Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians?  1/08 (extremism, Islamophobia, interfaith)
Don’t Confuse Islam and Muslims  1990
Free speech to counter hate speech - Dove World Outreach Center incident 8/09 (Islamophobia, interfaith, extremism, response)
Dove World Outreach Christian Center Christmas Message “Hate to the World”  12/09 (extremism, Islamophobia, interfaith, response)
Dumbest Muslim Plot Ever (Muslim Demographics, Islamophobia, response) 11/09
Eid Stamp Continues to Provoke Religious Right 11/05 (extremism, Islamophobia, interfaith, response)
The Elders, An Idea Whose Time Has Come 7/09
Abdullal El Faisal, Revolution Muslim, and Islamic Thinkers Society 1/10 (extremism, response)
The Evil Muslim Bus Driver Story That Wasn’t  4/08 (Islamophobia, response)
Film Review:  Avatar as a Mythic Heroes Journey  1/10
Fiqh Council Resolves ‘Moon Fighting’ Issue in Muslim Community 8/06
Thomas Friedman Makes a Valid Point 10/05 (Shia mosque bombing Iraq, extremism)
FITNA How Geert Wilders’ anti-Qur’an film can be made to benefit the Muslim community 2/08 — Geert Wilders Attempt to Provoke Fitna is Failing 3/08 (extremism, Islamophobia, response, propaganda)
Hugh Fitzgerald’s ‘Supermarket Tabloid’ Islamophobia is Showing 2/19/08 (propaganda, Islamophobia, response) 
Former Navy Chaplain Prays for the Death of Those Who Disagree With Him  4/09 (extremism, Islamophobia, interfaith)
Former Muslims United Freedom Pledge Against Punishment for Apostasy a “Red Herring”  11/09 (propaganda, Islamophobia, response)
Fort Hood Shooting Tragedy Condemned by Muslims  11/09 (extremism, response)
Fort Hood Tragedy, Islam, and America  11/09 (extremism, response)
From darkness to darkness: response to anonymous poem  1992 (converts)
The Gathering for Justice - The Civil Rights Movement Is Not Dead 12/30/07
The Goldstone Report, Reconciliation, and Peace 9/09 updated 1/10 (Palestine, Israeli lobby, Gaza)
Good News and Bad News for Muslims in 2007 12/07
Pamela Geller Attempts to Make a Point, Muslims Shrug 5/08 (Islamophobia, propaganda, response)
Mel Gibson, Jews and Muslims 4/07 (double standards)
Habeas Corpus, Gone But Not Forgotten 12/06
Halloween, A Christian, American Holiday?  11/05 (response)
Hajj Experience  (personal story) 2005
Holocaust cartoon and hate speech double standards  9/09 (Geert Wilders. res[pmse)
David Horowitz’ Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, An Idea Whose Time Has Passed  5/08 (Islamophobia, propaganda, response)
Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Eid, Best Buy Snafu 11/09 (Islamophobia, response)
Harvard Jihad Speech Controversy 7/02
Hilali-Khan Qur’an Translation 2/06
Hinrichs Case  12/05
“How To” Manual of Dubious Dialogue  9/1/02
If Muslims Are So Terrible, Why The Need To Make Up So Many Lies?  12/07
Inaction to Stop Gaza Massacre is a Choice 12/08
Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, and Joy Behar Living on the Planet of the Myopic Bigots
International Islamic Conference in Amman
Interview with Prof. T. B. Irving 1992
Interview With Shaikh Muhammad Nur Abdullah on the Fiqh Council of North America  11/05
Interview With Reverend Jack Cory, Christian-Muslim Dialogue Group  1992
Interview with Laleh Bakhtiar on The First English Translation of the Qur’an by an American Woman 3/07
Invitation to Endorse the Amman Statement on Islam 11/07
Iran Earthquake  2/05
Iraq:  Blood for Oil or Peace Through Justice  1/07
Is “American” a Synonym for “Christian”?  3/08
Is Islam more violent than other religions?: Is the Qur’an inherently violent?  11/09
Islamic Fascists?Islamic Fascists? updated 2/08
Islamic Sharia and Jewish Halakha Arbitration Courts 6/07
Islamic Terrorism?  9/06
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week - “Annual” 6 month event bombs again 11/08 (David Horowitz)
“Islamic terrorists”:  Who are they insulting?  9/08
Islamophobia Does Not Represent American Values  7/07
Islamophobia and Arabophobia: Laying The Groundwork - Us vs. Them  4/08, upated 11/09
Islamophobia In The American Heartland?  7/07
Islamophobic B’nai Brith Ad  12/09
ISNA? Thugs (2005 ISNA Convention)
The Israeli Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy  3/06 (Walt & Mearsheimer)
The Israeli Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Controversy Revisited 9/06
Israeli Passport Stamp Limits Bearers to Palestinian Authority Territories 8/09
Israeli Patrol Boat Rammed Civilian Mercy Ship to Gaza 12/08
Israeli Nakba Denial 7/09
Israeli propoganda machine  7/09
It’s Time for President Elect Obama to Speak on Behalf of American Arabs and Muslims  11/08 (Rahm Emmanuel appointment)
Jewish Newspaper Article Calls for Murder of Innocent Muslims 12/08
Journalist Suggests That We Should Keep the Muslims Out of America  12/08
The Legacy of Abraham 11/02
Avigdor Lieberman’s loyalty oath and Abe Foxman  2/09
Let them go hungry in Jesus’ Name?  11/08 (Sikhs)
Majlis, South Africa - What’s Wrong With This Picture?  1993
Malaysia, Allah, and God  12/09
McCain Finally Denounces and Rejects Extremist Ministers Hagee and Parsley 5/08
Media coverage of Belgrade Embassy attack an example of selective religious identification  2/08
More American Muslim Leaders Sign on To Muslim Intrafaith Code of Honor at ISNA Convention 9/07 (Sunni/Shia)
Mosque Synagogue “Twinning” - Mazel Tov, Mabrook!  11/08
Modern day slavery is an interfaith problem  7/31/09
The Mumbai Massacres 12/08
Muslim Day Parade Hijacked by Extremists (Islamic Thinkers Society)
Muslim Father Warned Authorities About Abdul Mutallab Six Months Ago 12/09
Muslim Massacre “Game”?  9/08
Muslim Names?:  A Rose by Any Other Name…  1989 (converts)
Muslim Prayer Event in D.C. Not Well Thought Out  9/09
Muslim Reactions to September 11th and Terrorism 8/02
Muslim Scholars Appeal to Christian Scholars for Dialogue and Peace on Eve of Eid (A Common Word)
Muslim Student Refuses to Stand for Pledge Story That Wasn’t 9/09
Muslim Timeline for World Rule? 11/05
Muslim Violence, Christian Non-Violence:  People in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Words  12/07
Muslim Voices Against Terrorism Drowned in Clash of Civilizations Static 9/06
MWU (Muslim Wakeup) and PMU (Progressive Muslims Union): Progressive Voices?
Muslims are a part of our American heritage  11/09
The Muslims Are Here!  The Muslims Are Here! 9/06
Muslims for Tancredo?  I Think Not!   8/6/07
Muslims Must Condemn Religious Extremists  11/09
Muslims Who Fought Against the ‘Real’ Fascists 9/06
My Hajj Experience
Nine Danger Signs of Militant Islam  11/05
North American Muslims Determined to Counter Violence and Terrorism  1/10
OBAMA — Obama/Kerry Incident Proves “Muslim” Is the New “N” Word 12/07   — Muslim Americans for Obama Not in Touch With American Muslim Pulse 2/08 — Muslims for Barack Obama? - It May Be Too Early To Tell! updated 1/09 — Attacks on Obama Highlight Racism and Islamophobia 3/08 — New Yorker Obama Cover  7/08 — It’s Time for President Elect Obama to Speak on Behalf of American Arabs and Muslims
11/08 — Obamaphobia and Islamophobia Revisited  11/09 — Obama and Rev. Wright:  Three Sound Bites Don’t Make Wright Wrong 3/08 — The Death Spasms of American Racism  11/08 (Obama election) — Racism is Certainly One Component of Disrespect Towards President Obama  9/09 — President Obama Brings National Day of Prayer Back in Line With Constitution  6/09 — President Obama’s “Subversive” School Speech 9/09 — Was Obama Iftar a Cover for secret Buddhist Leanings?  9/09
OBSESSION — Americans are becoming indifferent to Obsession  10/08 — Obsession:  Radical Judaism’s War With Islam updated 2/17/08 —  In-Depth Summary & Analysis of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War on the West” 9/08 — “Obsession” - Happy Ramadan:  “The Third Jihad” - Happy Eid  9/08 — Who is behind Relentless, Obsession and The Third Jihad? 9/08 — Resources for Responding 9/08
“Opus” Cartoon Not Offensive to This Muslim
Sarah Palin’s Prayer 9/08
DANIEL PIPES - Daniel Pipes, Islam 2.0 and Islamophobia 3.0  11/09 (Keith Ellison, Tariq Ramadan)— A Response to Daniel Pipes’ Allegations  2/3/04 —  Daniel Pipes Strange Understanding of Radical Religious Ideological Movements 4/08 — Daniel Pipes, Sirhan Sirhan, Obama, and the Avon Lady  11/08 — Religion Building:  Daniel Pipes the New Voice of Moderate Islam?  12/03
Policy Exchange Report on Extremist Literature in British Mosques Fabricated Evidence  2/08
POPE — Election of Pope Benedict XVI  2/05 — The Pope and the Muslim World 9/06 (Regensberg speech) — Pope Benedict and Islam:  One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 3/08 (Magdi Allam incident)
Praying While Muslim 8/06
Promoting Islam in the Public Schools?  10/09 (Dawa Net, Daniel Pipes)
Protecting Houses of Worship a Duty for Muslims  1/10
Pseudo-Muslims Representing Pseudo-Islam Must Be Outshouted 10/07
Pseudo-Muslims & Pseudo-Christians Cut From the Same Cloth  10/07 (Robert Spencer)
Qur’an & Hadith Against Extremism 7/07
Qur’an 8:55  11/05
Qur’an Explorer site and extremist Qur’an translations  10/07 (Mohsin translation)
Rabbi Pelavin’s Response to “Attention Rabbi Yoffie: Please Speak To Moderate Muslims” 1/08
Tariq Ramadan Calls for a Moratorium on Corporal Punishment
‘Religious’ Terrorism Is an Oxymoron 8/06
Report on News Coverage of the Arab World Shows Selectivity of News 1/08
Response to John Ankerberg’s The Truth About Islam Booklet  1992
Saint Louis Journalist Faces Criticism for Reporting on Gaza Demonstration 1/09 (Sylvester Brown, Post-Dispatch)
Saudi Destruction of Muslim Historical Sites  9/07
Saudi Arabia and Child Brides, A Disgrace and an Insult to Islam  4/09
Saying goodbye to Brother Imam (Imam W. D. Muhammad) 9/08
Scarf versus Disappeared - Media Double Standards  7/08 (CAIR photo retouching incident)
Selective Hearing of Muslim Voices Against Extremism and Terrorism 9/06 (“silence” of American Muslim community)
Shame of the Muslim Ummah 3/07 (community building, extremism)
Shoebat, Saleem, and Anani - Three Arab Villages Are Missing Their Idiots 2/08
Anis Shorrosh and the Suspicious Fire  5/08
Shoah or Holocaust, It’s Still a Catastrophe 3/08
Should McCain Reject and Denounce Minister Rod Parsley?  3/13/08
Should Muslim Americans Be Afraid?  12/04
Someone Owes Rashid Khalidi An Apology  11/08
Something to Think About:  Where Have All the American Muslims Gone?  1989 (converts)
Robert Spencer’s 10 Points of Obfuscation 10/08
STATEMENT ON THE TRAGEDY OF SEPTEMBER 11 9/01
Jon Stewart has some clips you should see  9/08
Jon Stewart Takes Criticism for Honest Daily Show Report on Gaza  1/09
The Subversive “Arab”, “Islamic” Doughnut Ad 6/08 (Rachel Ray, Dunkin Donuts ad)
Sunni Shia Unity
Swiss compete with Saudi’s to undermine religious freedom  12/09 (Minaret ban)
The Taqiyya Libel Against Muslims
Thank God Someone Is Listening to Us - Terrorism Is Not Jihad 5/08
There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Muslim 10/07
Throwing Stones at the Qur’an From a Glass House 3/07
Lynn Torgerson vs Keith Ellison: A Congressional Campaign Based on Religious Hatred  12/09
The ‘True Furqan’ Qur’an Hoax 4/07 (Anis Shorrosh)
Undercover mosque documentary  1/07
U.S. Mosques: The Canary In the Mine 9/06 (vandalism and incidents)
The Use and Abuse of Scriptures  11/05
The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act Undermines Freedom 4/08 (civil rights)
Virginia Tech and Islam  4/07
“What are the Special Issues and Needs of Converts within the Muslim Community?”   1989
What exactly is required to be considered a “moderate” Muslim? 10/08
What Happened In Najaf: A Battle or a Massacre?  2/07
What Sudan Needs Is More Teachers  12/07 (Teddy Bear incident) 
Why Interfaith Dialogue is More Needed Than Ever  1/09
Why Islam Didn’t Conquer the World 11/05 (Paul Akers)
Why Is Halliburton Building Internment Camps?  2/06
Wikipedia, Prophet Muhammad, and Muslims in need of Islam 101 2/08
Will the U.S. Demand an End to Israeli Settlements  7/09
Will the Wiesenthal Center Do the Right Thing About the Museum of “Tolerance”  7/09
Women for Women - Changing the world one woman at a time  10/09
You can change the world  12/08
Zawahiri adds racism to his crimes  11/08

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