In a year of faith-talking Democrats, a Muslim candidate speaks up

For many of my compatriots, belonging is measured by the intensity of righteous indignation generated toward Fidel. If I don’t join them in dancing in the streets, then I must truly be an apologist for Fidel. But regardless as to how justified my hostility toward Fidel may be, I refuse to base my actions and responses on hatred.

The election is over and the season of recrimination begins. Donald Trump will be president, some say, because rural white America is a sinkhole of fundamentalist racism. Others blame the outcome on the aloof arrogance of a latte-swilling “coastal elite”…

This is not a call to loosen our belts, to push away from the table or to count calories this Thanksgiving. This is not an endorsement of products marked with claims of half the fat, low fat, skim or light….

Jewish synagogues have been defaced with swastikas. Latina women have been threatened. Muslim women have been forced to remove their hijabs. On Veterans Day, Marie Boyle, a U.S. army veteran from the Philippines, was told to “Go back to Mexico.”…

Jesus and his disciples were truly the “silent majority” in ancient Roman-occupied Palestine. It was inhabited mostly by Jews who were allowed to exist but had no political power and paid taxes from which they did not benefit. They were…