It seems this "Muslim lifestyle magazine" likes to dish it out but can't take it:
We try to give a Muslim perspective, says Mahmud al-Rashid, Josephs husband, who is a full-time trial lawyer as well as the magazines volunteer publisher and editor-in-chief.
In everything Mahmud and I do, we try to eradicate the misconceptions that became increasingly prevalent after 9/11, says Joseph, who in 1994 became the first female editor of Trends, a uk Muslim youth magazine, and who was also founding editor of The Common Good, a publication of the Muslim Council of Britain. Now 32, she is also a part-time doctoral student who lectures frequently and widely on interfaith issues, religious tolerance and womens issues.
You have to make sure that people know about Islam and Muslims in a positive way. Muslim people do normal things, live normal lives. And the fact that weve got three children makes it paramount to make a better world for them. There is all this talk of clash of civilizations, but weve all got to coexist here!
Al-Rashid explains that, in emel, we wanted to produce something that we wanted to read ourselvessomething with a Muslim perspective on life, looking through western Muslim eyes, something that could reveal the high culture of Islam, not the usual stereotypes.
The magazine has no problem printing crap about the US and The West but sounds awfully sensitive when it comes to Muslims. This is exactly what is wrong with Muslims today, ducking the real issues that need to be squarely dealt with in regards to Islam and the modern world and what's wrong with Islam that has created all the problems.
Stalinist socialists refused to condemn any of the horrific actions of “Uncle Joe”. This compelled George Orwell to rebuke socialism and write novels that exposed the hypocrisy.
May someone do this with the political ideology of Islam...