No god but God – The Origins and Evolution of Islam. Reza Aslan (2011)

Recently, I quickly read Reza Aslan’s No god but God (the 2011 version, not 2005) and here is a short summary and some thoughts on it:

1901 footage of England!

Earlier today, I found some old video footage on YouTube of 1901 U.K. that you may also find interesting.

Good to know about your Muslim friend: the headscarf or hijab

So what’s the story with the hijab, the headscarf? What’s religious and what’s cultural?

This is a 7th entry in the series of Things that are good to know about your Muslim friend. Make sure to read the first six entries if you missed them, and which had to do with:

• Physical contact between the genders
• Dancing and music
• Christmas and other celebrations
• Purity and impurity in Islam
• fasting
• prayer

Good to know about your Muslim friend: physical contact between genders

Physical contact between members of the opposite gender in Islam

This is a 6th entry in the series of Things that are good to know about your Muslim friend. Make sure to read the first five entries if you missed them, and which had to do with:

• Dancing and music
• Christmas and other celebrations
• Purity and impurity in Islam
• fasting
• prayer

Good to know about your Muslim friend: Prayer

Prayer

This is a 4th entry in the series of Things that are good to know about your Muslim friend. Make sure to read the first three entries if you missed them, and which had to do with:

• Christmas and other celebrations
• Purity and impurity in Islam
• fasting

whose your custodian of cultural censorship?

At the beginning of the Month of February 2015, the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, sank low enough to vow to appeal a court ruling that allowed a Muslim woman to take the citizenship oath without removing her niqab (the face covering)¹.