Category: Media Appearances

The good folks at On Being published a guest post by me about my trip to Fes earlier in the summer of 2010. The difference between the sacred and the profane is much more porous in these contexts. Here, popular does not mean a-religious, and religious does not mean private.…Continue readingGuest Post at On Being with Krista Tippett

The show is split into four segments, of which I am embedding the third when I appear. I link to all four segments because it is some of the most comprehensive work on Park51 I have seen so far. Listen Up TV is a news program in Canada that looks…Continue readingListen Up TV Appearance: Being Muslim in America

“I think Gov. Paterson is firmly in the percentage of the American population that admits it knows nothing about Islam,” Hussein Rashid, a professor of religion at Hofstra University on Long Island, told CBS. From “Good Muslims” and Sufism

The New York Time is running an excerpt of the conversation. Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish is also running it.

Rush transcript.

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim? Gov. Paterson Inserts Foot — Again. New York Gov. David Paterson has sought to be a peacemaker in the viral dispute over building an Islamic center near ground zero, suggesting the mosque be moved a few blocks farther away and even offering state land for a…Continue readingQuoted: Politics Daily – Good Muslim, Bad Muslim? Gov. Paterson Inserts Foot — Again

Why Muslim Americans Have Been Reluctant to Show Support for Park51 – WNYC. According to Hussein Rashid, a professor at Hofstra University and contributor to Religion Dispatches, thinks Muslims have rallied around the constitutional rights of those planning Park 51. But he thinks the Cordoba Initiative has failed to convert…Continue readingQuoted: WNYC – Why Muslim Americans Have Been Reluctant to Show Support for Park51