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The Martyr

muse — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:10:31 +0000

Ms. Sherry Jones, she of all things tolerant, who courageously “refuse[s] to succumb to racism,” writes about her anguish over having her book Jewel of Medina pulled.

I think Willow’s comment says it all.

muse — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:08:50 +0000

I liked Azeem Khan’s verbal smackdown of Peter King re: the Why Islam? subway ads. You can tell he knows he won that round. I would have loved to seen the look on King’s face after.

God’s gift to women

muse — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:59:29 +0000

Ok, fess up, which one of you guys did this?

Muslims and Divorce

muse — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:32:01 +0000

Why are Muslims divorcing? Some interesting comments at Suhaib Webb’s blog. I personally don’t think its necessarily a bad thing - sometimes divorce is the best option and divorcees shouldn’t be stigmatized.

muse — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:37:33 +0000

Emirates find new and improved ways to do dawah.

A 32-year-old London businessman in the emirate on a working trip said: “This is the wildest city on Earth – I’ve never seen so many birds and so much booze. “If this is what goes on in a Muslim country, I’m converting to Islam.”

h/t Achelois.

Obama Interview

muse — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:19:18 +0000

O gave a wide-ranging foreign policy interview to Fareed Zakaria. I liked his response to Z’s query about how he views the “problem within Islam” regarding terrorism. I think after hearing asinine comments from the administration for so long, a common sense response like this seems downright brilliant.

…what we also want to do is to shrink the pool of potential recruits. And that involves engaging the Islamic world rather than vilifying it, and making sure that we understand that not only are those in Islam who would resort to violence a tiny fraction of the Islamic world, but that also, the Islamic world itself is diverse.

And that lumping together Shia extremists with Sunni extremists, assuming that Persian culture is the same as Arab culture, that those kinds of errors in lumping Islam together result in us not only being less effective in hunting down and isolating terrorists, but also in alienating what need to be our long-term allies on a whole host of issues.

Speaking of honor killing

muse — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:28:55 +0000

Speaking of honor killing, front page on CNN right now. Sigh.

Random Question

muse — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:49:31 +0000

How many of you underline or otherwise mark-up the books you read? I just got a nice fresh batch of books and I dread marking them up, though I’m sure I won’t be able to help myself as I read them. Also, there’s always something intriguing about buying used books and reading other people’s thoughts written in the margins.

muse — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:03:51 +0000

MTV Cribs. Visits the home of Mohamad, an Arab-American living in Dearborn, Michigan. Hilarity ensues.

A call for Muslims to better understand the struggle of Native Hawaiians

muse — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:31:57 +0000

A call for Muslims to better understand the struggle of Native Hawaiians. There are 45 tourists for every person of Hawaiian heritage on the islands. That’s incredible. But seems about right from what I remember from my visit.

Haunani-Kay Trask’s From a Native Daughter: Colonialism & Sovereignty in Hawai’ describes tourism as “cultural prostitution.” What do you guys think about that? I think its a harsh description, but accurate. I remember feeling suffocated by the tourist culture in Luxor, Egypt, making it my least favorite place there.