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Nazi Cowboy, How to Read the Koran, Violent Religions

January 6th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • There are the Naked Cowboy and the Dallas Cowboys. Meet the Nazi cowboy, from a great review by Ruth Ellen Gruber of a Berlin-based exhibit. [Forward]
  • The Koran, which is “both extremely simple and deeply complex,” is paradoxically not the ideal first reference for people seeking to understand Islam, argues Tariq Ramadan, whose grandfather founded the Muslim Brotherhood. “A life of the Prophet or any book presenting Islam would be a better introduction.” [IHT]
  • Sheila Musaji, founding editor of The American Muslim, responds to anti-Muslim suggestions that Christianity has evolved to a non-violent religion, whereas Islam has not. “I could chalk these articles up as the ramblings of a few nut cases,” writes Musaji. “I could assume the fallacy and hypocrisy in these statements was obvious to all Americans–but it is obviously not.” Musaji doesn’t mention Jewish views on violence, but suffice it to say that the argument sticks there as well. [Ethics Daily, HT: DMN Religion Blog]

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