A friend started a new humorous blog and asked me for a shout out. All posts will be enacted in Lego. Here is the first installment on the issue of women driving in Saudi Arabia.
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Islam in China is on the Facebook now. Join the group.
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I sometimes feel as if fiqh related debates about Muslim minority issues in America are framed as if the American Muslims are the first Muslim minority in history. The recent discussion on TalkIslam about al wala wal bara reminded me of this issue. Here is my two Rimnibi on the issue.
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Appearently Europe is not the only place which is having the problem of shortage of priests, Brazilian Muslims also have the problem of shortage of imams.
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It was going to happen sooner or later, a “replica” of Noah’s Ark has been built by an Evangelical Christian. One may think that the most likely site and financer would come from America but this one is actually in Hong Kong and funded by a Chinese Evangelical Christian billionaire businessman. (Found via ScienceBlogs)
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China, Japan and South Korea are building the largest Radio Telescope Array in the world.
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The Islam in China blog has a new companion website. Here is the new URL:
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What is the fastest growing religion in China (and possibly the world)? — Christianity.
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Meanwhile in China more than 20 million migrant workers are out of work because of the economic downturn. This figure does not include the other jobless people who are based in cities.
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Since education plays an important role in building a nation the 50% dropout rate in Bangladeshi primary schools in alarming.
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Keith Elison, the first Muslim to be elected to Congress also becomes the first Muslim Congressperson (Just trying to use gender neutral language) to perform Hajj.
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A Serbian (Extremist) group has been banned from the Facebook for promoting hatred. Here is what Reuters has to say about the whole affair:
The group “Noz Zica Srebrenica” (The Knife The Wire Srebrenica), written in Serbian cyrillic script, extolled the detention and killing of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 by Bosnian Serb forces, commanded by fugitive General Ratko Mladic.
“For all those who respect the acts of Ratko Mladic,” said the 1,000-member-strong nationalist group, “For all those who think that Muslims are best on the spit and while swimming in sulphur acid.”
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A retired cardinal in Chile has stated that Madonna’s “antics are lustful, a stain on humanity and offensive to God.” It makes one wonder what would the media have reacted if it was an imam instead of a Cardinal.
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The bias against Korean Buddhists seldom makes it to the news in the West. Earlier this year there was a series of country wide protests by Buddhist monks against the government of President Lee Myung-bak for systematically discriminating against Buddhists on all levels of govenment. In the end Lee Myung-bak had to apologize to Buddhists on national television for the actions of the govenment. Recently the Korean National Police Chief also aplogized for the unfair treatment of Buddhists by the police.
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Ziauddin Sardar tackles the question of “Islamic” Science in his latest column. The comments are equally illuminating. They illustrate some of the points that Sardar is trying to make.
Guessoum, who is about to publish a book on ijaz literature, says that most works on scientific miracles follow a set pattern. They start with a verse of the Quran and look for concordance between scientific results and Quranic statements. For example, one would start from the verse “So verily I swear by the stars that run and hide . . .” (81:15-16) and quickly declare that it refers to black holes, or take the verse “[I swear by] the Moon in her fullness; that ye shall journey on from stage to stage” (84:18-19) and decide it refers to space travel. And so on. “What is meant to be allegorical and poetic is transformed into products of science,” Guessoum says.
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The number of phone users in China exceeds 960 million. This includes 600 million cellphone users.
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The National interviews Sidney Shapiro was one of the handful of Americans who settled in China after the Communist Revolution. Unlike many others he is still living in China at 92. Shapiro is a Chinese citizen who gave up his American passport almost 50 years ago.
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The New Straight Tines interviews Sada Cumber, the special US envoy to OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference).
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The story is a few years old but it conveys the reality on the ground. Guess which country sends the second largest number of missionaries to the Islamic world? Korea of course!
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The Guardian features a debate between Inayat Bunglawala and Harun Yahya on Evolution and the origin on life.