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September 11, 2010: A Time for Turning September 11. The date, the words are still so evocative. Hate, anger, fear, sorrow, loss. Nine years after the event, emotions can still be as intense as they were in 2001. For some Americans, September 11 is the anniversary of their loved one’s…Continue readingArticle with Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer on 9/11

Patheos recently republished an article of mine from Religion Dispatches. In the United States, a place I have argued is a new intellectual Mecca, rather than attacking a simplified version of Islam, an Islam-lite if you will, I find more and more American Muslims defining themselves by Orientalist constructions of…Continue readingReprint: Orientalizing Ourselves