“It is poorly named since there is no honor in killing a woman. What these crimes are about is controlling a woman and it is not something unique to just Muslim society,” Hussein Rashid, a visiting instructor at Hofstra University’s Department of Religion, told Fox411.com. “I can’t put words in these men’s mouths, but it sounds like they had real issues with the success of a woman in their household and that this is about a loss of power.”
From Fox411 (they will hopefully fix the affiliation):
Hussein Rashid, religion professor and religion dispatches associate editor at Hofstra University, said he is concerned that self-censorship will lead to a shutdown of the dialogue that must continue if people can be brought to understand the true meaning of Islam.
“I don’t think it is ever smart to self-censor,” Rashid told Fox411.com. “I am a big believer that the response to speech should always be more speech. I think this ‘South Park’ episode has been good for that conversation.”
My piece on Religion Dispatches on South Park and Revolution Muslim has been quoted in several other outlets:
The Guardian: No freak-out over South Park by Zahed Amanullah
Tikkun Daily: Beavis and Butt-Head declare holy war against “South Park” by Svend White
Beliefnet: South Park, Muhammad, Jesus, and the Media by Diana Butler Bass
Politics Daily: ‘South Park’ Bleeped Over Muhammad Episode by David Gibson
Quoted may be too generous as it seems to be an uncredited reference to an article on Religion Dispatches.
Cleveland International Film Festival: Locally filmed ‘Taqwacores’ explores Muslim youth rebellion
Many Muslims found the book’s depictions — of drinking, sex, drugs and young people who challenge the religion’s teachings — inflammatory, according to Hussein Rashid, associate editor of the blog Religion Dispatches.
Mentioned in an article on Change.org about a response to racial profiling.
I was recently interviewed by Good Day NY on Fox TV concerning a State Assemblyman’s bill to profile Muslims. The short version of the interview is below, the full segments below the fold.
Article is here.
Responding to those questions in an interview, Hussein Rashid, one of the event’s co-leaders and a visiting professor of religious studies at Hofstra University, called Geyer’s question “refreshing” and said he wasn’t alone in expressing those thoughts. Rashid said that Muslim scholars have begun to respond to violence against Muslim themselves – the overwhelming majority of terror victims – as well as to violence against non-Muslims.
Terrorism committed by Islamic extremists is “painful for me because my religion is being portrayed in this way,” said Rashid, who grew up in Rego Park. It’s also painful “because the ideal of America, as a community of different people, is being ruptured by people who don’t know what that ideal means.”
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