Islamic Social Justice Warriors: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma

Sarsour & DeBlasio

Can Muslim women achieve equality and “social justice” within the traditional confines of Islam? The inaugural panel discussion for Union Theological Seminary’s new “Islam Social Justice Interreligious Engagement Program,” tried to reconcile these two irreconcilable ideas. Among the speakers was notorious anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour whose organization, the Arab American Association of New York, was awarded $500,000 from NYC Mayor Bill Deblasio only days later. Campus Watch contributor Eric Golub’s reportappears today at Jihad Watch:

After recommending the Twitter hashtag "#MuslimWomenInAction,” moderator Jerusha T. Lamptey, assistant professor of Islam and ministry and ISJIE program advisor at UTS, announced that the program would focus on “social justice issues, such as incarceration, climate change, [and] economic inequality, not just Islamophobia.”

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.