Category: Media Appearances

Debate Watch 2012: The God-fearing voter : Long Island Report. Interviews with Hofstra Hillel Rabbi Dave Siegel, the Catholic campus chaplain Father Gregory Rannazzisi, and professor of religion Hussein Rashid shed light on how religion affects the issues and how it will influence the conversation between candidates and voters.  

Got a shout on this blog about my work on American Muslim musics. John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” – meccastars. Other scholars, such as Dr. Hussein Rashid of Hofstra University, also have studied the effects that Islam has had on Blues, Jazz, and other forms of American music.

“A right for one is a right for another and a responsibility for all.” | blog.pfaw.org. In 1988, as Founding Chairman of People For the American Way, Norman Lear was among the cosigners of the Williamsburg Charter, “written and published expressly to address the dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities posed by…Continue reading“A right for one is a right for another and a responsibility for all.” | blog.pfaw.org

Obama-Morsi: What The American And Egyptian Presidents Should Talk About. “He needs to talk about Muslims in the U.S., to show that the U.S. is not at war with Islam,” said Hussein Rashid, an Islamic studies lecturer at Fordham University.

#MySubwayAd: People Respond To Anti-Islamic Subway Ads. Muslim and non-Muslims alike took to Twitter today to denounce the Islamophobic ad. Their responses were both humorous and thoughtful. Below are some of our favorite tweets:

I was recently on Huffington Post Live, talking about lots of stuff, except religion. Nice change of pace, and a great session.  

Qawwalis, Found Sounds, and Benghazi: Locating the Sacred in a New York Church | On Being. The combination of Yoon’s voice and the electronic components helped create a bridge between the trappings of the modern and sense of spirituality as being ancient. The stories were inverted, and technology was ancient,…Continue readingQawwalis, Found Sounds, and Benghazi: Locating the Sacred in a New York Church | On Being

Muslim New Yorkers Learn to Pick Their Battles – WNYC. “There’s no longer a sense of Muslim and American, but Muslims as Americans,” said Rashid, “and I think that’s a really important part of that political engagement. And I think, looking at France, you still see this isolation, this difference.…Continue readingMuslim New Yorkers Learn to Pick Their Battles – WNYC

While the filmmakers behind the anti-Islam film, ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ may not have intended to cause protests and violence across the Muslim World, they did clearly intend to perpetuate Islamophobia. And while their film may not have succeeded in directly doing so, it seems as if the subsequent violent protests…Continue readingThe Takeaway: How Riots Abroad Affect Muslims at Home

Behind anti-Muslim video 'Innocence of Muslims:' what L.A. County knows but isn't saying | Alaska Dispatch. Professor Rashid says the moviemakers’ plan rested, in part, “on everyone being as full of hate as themselves. Fortunately, that's not the way the world actually is.”