What Would Muhammad Do?
A Pope Everyone Can Agree On: Yoda
By Omid Safi — February 20, 2013
Here is a Pope that everyone can agree on: Yoda.
How about a change to Yoda, to move from an embodiment of authority to one that emphasizes spiritual transmission?
An open letter to Tim Tebow about God’s love, and associating with hateful Christians
By Omid Safi — February 16, 2013
Dear Tim, I have always gotten the sense that you care about your legacy beyond football, that football has been a podium from which you can reach people through God’s love. I pray that you choose to act more like Christ, and less like some of Christ’s hateful followers.
Pope Benedict’s Resignation–a Muslim perspective
By Omid Safi — February 11, 2013
Muslims have had by and large a very tense relationship with Pope Benedict, yet I would hope that we as Muslims can practice the divine qualities of mercy and forgiveness at this time, and stand next to our Catholic friends as they journey through this turbulent time of transition.
Super Bowl ads and Saudi sexism
By Omid Safi — February 4, 2013
In expressing our dismay at the sexism of Saudi society, I hope that we remember the sexism of our own society here in the US, as evidenced in almost every single Super Bowl ad last night.
Ray Lewis, Faith, and Super Bowl
By Omid Safi — February 3, 2013
Even if Lewis was a sinner, and turned to faith to turn his life around, he is in good company with many religious figures throughout human history.
An Assault on the American University
By Omid Safi — February 1, 2013
Our democracy is best served by sending a strong message to those behind the assault on our universities: We are not for sale.
Happy Birthday to the Prophet Muhammad! (from a female point of view)
By Omid Safi — January 23, 2013
The poem describing the inner meaning of the Prophet's birthday goes on to describe the very physical experience of birth, that magical experience where a life enters this world through a grace-filled opening, resulting in an opening of a new gate of mercy for humanity.
Why Obama is not the fulfillment of Martin’s Dream
By Omid Safi — January 21, 2013
No, Brother Obama, that talented, charismatic, and eloquent speaker, is not yet the fulfillment of Brother Martin’s dream.
The faith of dogs
By Omid Safi — January 19, 2013
If this faithfulness and love is the faith of dogs, I pray for the faith of dogs for us human beings.
“You can’t walk on that side of the street”: Institutional Israeli Segregation
By Omid Safi — January 6, 2013
We in America saw the moral shortcoming of segregated lunch counters, segregated buses and segregated schools.
In Israel, there are still segregated roads, segregated housing, segregated sidewalks, segregated...
Malala Yousufzai, the young Jihadist, released from hospital. #RiseAgain
By Omid Safi — January 5, 2013
Malala is ready to embark on the her Jihad. #RiseAgain
Jesus the Jew, Jesus the Palestinian
By Omid Safi — December 24, 2012
Jesus was Jewish, and Jesus was Palestinian. Both of these aspects are missing from today's Christmas celebration.
I pray for the apocalypse
By Omid Safi — December 21, 2012
I pray for the apocalypse, today. Here is one of the original meanings of Apocalypse: Old English, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal’, from apo- ‘un-‘ + kaluptein ‘to cover’. So yes, I pray for the apocalypse. I pray for the uncovering of falsehood. I pray for the discovery […]
Gandalf and Goodness–today
By Omid Safi — December 19, 2012
I love spiritual mentors, wise old souls that see beyond, see that something in us that we don’t see in ourselves. I love Yoda, love Dumbledore, love Gandalf. The Gandalf character has grown on me, bit by bit. In the Hobbit movie, there is a line that really spoke to me. He disagrees with his […]
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