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By: Len

Len — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:43:04 +0000

At least there were no Daniel Pearl references in the article itself.

By: null

null — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:56:19 +0000

Brilliant.

By: aziz

aziz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:35:37 +0000

yes. Everything always relates back to Morgantown. Morgantown was the Alamo. Morgantown was Karbala. Morgantown was Alpha and Omega. All roads lead to Morgantown. There is no Mosque but Morgantown, and Asra Nomani is its Prophet.

By: Len

Len — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:21:47 +0000

Fine points and all.

But:

As a Muslim-American writer-activist, challenging rules that banish women to the back corners of mosques, I have been told that I must stay quiet so as not to cause “fitna,” or division, inside the community.

Five years ago, in an email to community members, a member of the board of trustees of the Muslim Community Center argued one of my objectives was to “create fitna (chaos) in the community.”

Damn, she is still eating off that isn’t she?

By: aziz

aziz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:14:04 +0000

heh. i dont really need credit; will settle for just an offhand admission that they read myblog

By: johnpi

johnpi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:48:08 +0000

Take it as a compliment: You’re influential – uncredited, but influential.

If I had a dollar for every time something that originated in the blogosphere showed up in the MSM uncredited…

By: aziz

aziz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:40:51 +0000

hey, she plagiarized me. from many years ago:

http://cityofbrass.blogspot.com/2003/09/good-of-ummah.html

not to mention Tariq Ramadan:

http://cityofbrass.blogspot.com/2004/08/tariq-ramadan-us-and-them.html

By: Buzz

Buzz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:42:26 +0000

It’s critical that we ditch the concept of the “ummah” with a capital “U” and recognize that we are an “ummah” with a small “u,” meaning our religious identity doesn’t have to supersede other loyalties and identities. This attempt to push an “Ummah” is the politics of ideologues of puritanical Islam who want to mollify dissent. Sadly, too many moderates have bought into it.

*zing*