Muslim Lookout

Hello and salaams Muslim Lookout readers,
I wanted to let you know that ML will be going on hiatus for the next two months.  With writers out of town, and editors struggling under piles of academic work, we are unfortunately unable to keep posting good articles as often as we would like.
We’re hoping to start up [...]

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An interesting Toronto Star editorial on “Our appalling ignorance of matters Muslim”:
Recent events in Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Egypt, Germany and France challenge some well-entrenched notions.
Indonesia – the world’s most populous Muslim nation, at 235 million, and the third largest democracy, after India and the U.S. – held a free and fair presidential election. It featured [...]

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Due to the extra busy-ness of our contributors this week we unfortunately had to miss a couple of days of posting. Insha’Allah we will be back to posting very shortly. Thank you for your patience.

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Recently journalist Haroon Siddiqui tried to answer the question “Why is it “politically toxic” to say that the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario be scrapped?” In his piece in the Toronto Star entitled “Why Tories are worrying about rights tribunal” Siddiqui presents an eye-opening, yet seemingly obvious, role that Muslims have unwittingly played in scaring [...]

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Originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
I wrote last week about a positive portrayal of a Muslim woman who had recently been voted president of a mosque.  I’m going to stick with the positive stuff for at least another week (although, considering the state of global media portrayals of Muslim women, this probably won’t last too [...]

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A GTA Sheikh implements a 12-step “detox” program to address any signs of radical thinking among young Muslims. See what you think.
The program involves promoting peace and tolerance and challenging a narrow-minded brand of the faith that prevents activities such as listening to music and celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. Often, it is parents who [...]

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A reporter in St. Catharines makes the shocking discovery that Muslims aren’t so different after all:
Last week, while attending the Islamic Society of St. Catharines Open House at the Masjid Al-Noor Mosque, I learned something that I’ll never forget.
It centres on a bright young Muslim girl named Salima. She gave me a very informative tour [...]

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