The tweet that won the internet

After Sunday night’s “debate,” a professor at Brooklyn College, CYNU, won the web.

We are, in fact, one community

Here. Read this, a joint statement from Muslim and LGBTQ groups that condemns the horrible shooting in Orlando.

Ramadan Mubarak!

The Muslim holy season started last night. May the season be a blessed one to all our Muslim friends. And here’s a handy list of ways to show solidarity with observant people.

We look stupid, y’all

Sadiq Khan. the new mayor of London, says that if Donald Drumpf is elected President, he won’t be allowed in the country. Khan is a Muslim. Drumpf is an idiot.  

Did you know this?

The Department of Justice has launched a campaign against anti-Muslim/Sikh/South Asian/Arab sentiment since the recent terrorist attacks. Here’s more on the initiative. Discussions are going on throughout the country, including here, in Connecticut, where we’ve had our problems with this kind of thing. And thanks, Leftover, for the link.

In which Prof. Hawkins schools the lot of us in love

Prof. Larycia Hawkins was placed on paid administrative leave by her employer, Wheaton College, after she donned a hijab to show solidarity with her Muslim brothers and sisters, and declared that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. I wrote this originally, but then last week, Wheaton College began a procedure that could lead to …

Once more with feeling: I stand with Larycia Hawkins

I wrote this for Patheos. And thank you, Dilshad, for giving me the opportunity.

Opportunities to pray (or just be) with your extended family

The Hartford Seminary is hosting an Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Peace at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the seminary at 77 Sherman in Hartford. The program, organized by seminary students, should last about an hour, and will include speeches by several student leaders, readings from letters by family members of recent victims, interfaith prayer, song and …

On creating a database for dipshits…

In the latest of a series of really incredibly stupid, hurtful and — at best — ill-informed comments, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he would “certainly implement” a database of all Muslims living in the U.S. How is this different from registering Jews in Nazi Germany? Trump couldn’t say. But this gives me an idea: What …

Oopsie! Before you blame Islam, do your homework.

And thanks, ChrisB., for the link.