When Islam is Not a Religion, Asma T. Uddin
When Islam is Not a Religion, Asma T. Uddin
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When Islam is Not a Religion
Inside America's Fight for Religious Freedom

Author: Asma T. Uddin

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 12 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/25/2019


Synopsis

Religious-liberty lawyer Asma Uddin has long considered her work defending people of all faiths to be a calling more than a job. Yet even as she seeks equal protection for Evangelicals, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Native Americans, Jews, and Catholics alike, she has seen an ominous increase in attempts to criminalize Islam and exclude American Muslims from their inalienable rights. Somehow, the view that Muslims arent human enough for human rights or constitutional protections is moving from the fringe to the mainstreamalong with the claim Islam is not a religion. This conceit affects all Americans because the loss of liberty for one means the loss of liberties for everyone. When Islam Is Not a Religion also looks at how faith in America is being secularized and politicized and what repercussions this has on debates about religious freedom and diversity. Woven throughout this national saga is Uddins own story. She combines her experience as a person of Muslim faith and her legal and philosophical appreciation that all individuals have a right to religious liberty. Uddin examines the shifting tides of American culture and outlines a way forward for individuals and communities navigating todays culture wars.

About Asma T. Uddin

Asma T. Uddin is a religious-liberty lawyer who has worked on cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and federal trial courts. She is the founding editor-in-chief of altmuslimah.com and was an executive producer for the Emmy and Peabody-nominated docuseries The Secret Life of Muslims. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Teen Vogue. She currently resides in Washington, DC.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nelson on November 21, 2019

"Islam is not a religion." That is some advanced level redneckery. If you were to say Scientology is not a religion, I'd think you'd have a case. But Islam? As Uddin pointed out, it's a millennia-old, established religion. When I first heard that phrase, frequently uttered by right-wingers, I wondere......more

Goodreads review by Umar on September 04, 2021

This is an important book on an important topic dealing with the subject of religious liberty and American-Muslims. Asma Uddin spends a lot of time debunking the ludicrous claim put forward by many conservative activists and GOP lawmakers that Islam is a political ideology rather than a religion. As......more

Goodreads review by Warren on October 01, 2019

What this author says is undeniably true: Muslims in the US are not treated on equal footing in law and in day-to-day life. However, while this book provides many salient and moving examples, I feel that it lacks in a couple areas. One is a proper rebuttal to claims made by Islamophobes. I agree tha......more

Goodreads review by Sarmat on April 28, 2021

This was a deeply fascinating read, and is still very much relevant for today's discourse on religious freedom, and how it covers American Muslims in the American legal system. Though the book is labeled as Current Affairs because of the topics that Uddin discusses with the reader, I would argue tha......more