A few weeks ago, Baybers and I had a discussion about whether there was any organisation or mosque to which one could bring one of their non-Muslim work colleagues and know, with some certainty, that their colleague wouldn’t be accosted, bothered or experience something that would be the source of embarrassment for his host. Or...Read More

In the last three days, I’ve counted three young men and two women — non-Arabs and presumably non-Muslim — wearing Yasser Arafat-style scarves wrapped around their necks. That might not be uncommon if one was talking about a university campus but this was just walking around the CBD, riding public transport and entering offices. Unlike...Read More

The Economist has an interesting piece on the growing importance of the “Muslim market” in the United States and how companies are adapting to it.  They write: But a new study by JWT, an advertising agency, points out that the 6m or so Muslims in America are, on average, richer and better educated than the...Read More