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thabet
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shahed
Slots are filling up for the 47th annual Muslim Youth Camp, a week-long family camp held in the California mountains August 10-16. There are kids attending this camp whose grandparents attended as kids! If you are interested in a slice of Muslim-American history, and want to see a program that has proven itself able to create a stable Muslim-American identity for the past half century, come and volunteer to be a counselor or teacher. All ages welcome. Go to muslimyouthcamp.org for more information, or get in touch w/me.
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razib
SM post, A South Asian American Agenda?. the discussion about the term “south asian” vs. “indian american”, etc. has broken out. there’s obviously some hostility toward muslim brownz on that thread in terms of their lack of interest in pan-south asian events. i offered a few quick opinions, but i would add
1) people who are of the dharmic religions have a *natural* association with india and south asian which people of the abrahamic religions do not. india is the holy land of the dharmic religions.
2) i suspect this explains the transition toward transnational islamic identity among many south asian diasporic muslim youth. specifically, an identity that is more rooted in the world of islam than the local parameters of islam on the north indian plain. a shift to identity markers which take arab standards as the norm and so on.
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thabet
The challenge facing Dubai and the rest of the UAE, he said, was to retain its traditional values. It would not be easy. “Young Emiratis will be influenced,” he said. “The question is, by how much and what can the country do about it?”
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thabet
State lawmakers Wednesday held up voting on a resolution in recognition of a Muslim group’s upcoming convention after a legislator protested that “the Muslims do not recognize Jesus Christ as God.”
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thabet
Law and religion: A Sikh schoolgirl who was excluded from lessons when she refused to remove a religious bracelet should not have been told to take it off because it is a symbol of faith and not a piece of jewellery, the High Court heard. (Emphasis my own.)
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thabet
A somewhat lightweight, but nonetheless useful, look at how ‘British’ identity was forged with the help of corporations working in the Empire.
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thabet
Emiratis express concern that they are losing their ‘national identity’.
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thabet
Quebec rejects removing crucifix.
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razib
from The Turks in World History, an ethnographic survey found that uigher intellectuals define themselves as turks or uighers, uigher elite merchants/business persons define themselves as chinese and uigher peasants define themselves as muslims….
