Tikkun Daily: Food for thought for Quran-bashers

I’ve started blogging for Tikkun Daily, the group blog of the excellent profession spirituality magazine Tikkun.

Here’s my maiden post there.

Tikkun Daily Blog » Blog Archive » Food for thought for Quran-bashers

Sometimes as a Muslim I feel suspect that the simplest, most effective way to begin to answer the many burning questions Westerners have about Islam and Muslims isn’t to give them a Quran or even the most erudite and engaging book on Islam. For many living in our postmodern world, such a discussion needs to start far closer to home, with a crash course in Western religious history and the basic ideas of the Judeo-Christian Tradition. Not only is that often a necessary remedial measure, but in this day of –to borrow an inspired metaphor once applied to U.S.-Iranian relations–“mutual Satanization” I think it is for many probably the only way to begin this critical conversation. [MORE]

Am trying to return to blogging’s unloving, thankless, time-wasting embrace.