Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face: When Ali Ardekani started fishing around on the Internet a couple of years ago for video blogs about Muslims, he did not like what he found: either the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims were depicted as bloodthirsty zealots, or they were offering defensive explanations as to why they were not. [NYT]
Loving and Leaving the Head Scarf: What hijab’s revolving door says about the religious mobility of American Muslims. [Slate]
Turning towards Mecca, Islamic banks join in the race for Africa: CHINA is not the only financial powerhouse with its hungry eye on Africa. Flush with oil wealth, the Gulf states, too, are spying profitable opportunities among the hundreds of millions of Muslims who live just a hop across the Red Sea. [Economist]
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