Muslims are not allowed to go to Mars<\/a>. Not that it’s possible anyway \u2014 there are huge psychological and physiological issues to be dealt with \u2014 but if it were, Muslims could not do it, these imams say.<\/p>\nIt must be tough to be a Muslim science-fiction writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two news items from the noisiest and most explosive of the desert monotheisms: 1. In Malaysia, Muslim men wearing silk is a sign of the apocalypse. (There is a connection here to the reason that there is no Muslim liturgical music\u2014except for that of the Sufis, and they are heretics.) 2. 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