Woodrat Podcast 20: American Quran

The internet is great, especially since the advent of modern search engines, but what if you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it? Then you need either a revelation from God or a shortwave radio. You never know what you might stumble upon late at night on an old radio! This appears to be a reading from Ahmed Ali’s translation of the Quran, Sura 6, “The Cattle.” There are a few words missing toward the end, presumably from problems in the recording or the transmission, but otherwise it seems to be a complete reading, delivered in one take.

Here are some links to help contextualize things:

• American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong? (Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times)
• Islam for Americans (Khadija Anderson, qarrtsiluni)
• “You’ve Never Met a Muslim”: Four New Yorkers on what it means to be a Muslim now (Zeba Iqbal, Ameena Meer, Haroon Moghul and Hussein Rashid, Religion Dispatches)
• An American Tune (Teju Cole, Via Negativa guest post)
• Opposition to ‘mosque’ directly linked to anti-Islam sentiment, poll shows (Greg Sargent, The Washington Post)
• If the ‘Mosque’ Isn’t Built, This is No Longer America (Michael Moore)

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