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  shahed 8:58 am on February 20, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: demographics (35), gender (16), khutbah, mosques (38)

  This article by the AP’s Rachel Zoll is based on demographic data from my salatomatic.com site. Now that it has been online for five years, we’ve gathered enough data points on US/Canada/UK mosques to do some interesting analyses and hope to put out a comprehensive report soon.

  Here’s a teaser:
  

  15% of US mosques do not allow women to serve on their boards. In Canada, this jumps to 20%. In the UK, it is 24%. (Data copyright 2010 Halalfire Media)

  This information is reported to us either by the mosques themselves or by people who attend them. Interesting in that I believe an official stance like this is illegal in all these countries.

   

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  buzz 12:20 pm on November 27, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Eid ul Adha (6), interpretation (5), khutbah, Muslim Culture

  As someone not born into the culture of Islam, I have gaps that I occasionally have to fill in on the holidays.

  What is the significance of Eid ul Adha? Feast of Sacrifice, Abraham (AS) obeyed Allah’s Command to sacrifice his son. And?

  I have not sat through dozens of Eid khutbahs. Maybe some of you have.

   
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  johnpi 9:56 pm on May 15, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Friday prayers, Jumah (2), Jumu'ah, khutbah

  The best criticism I’ve seen yet of the practice of Islam in America:

  State of emergency: Friday khutbahs in the United States.

  If I know that I am going to run late working in the hospital, I will go to a local mosque that has this Urdu speech, Arabic “khutbah” model so that I can pop into the mosque right before the speech ends. That way, I am not bored to sleep by (a likely wonderful) talk which I cannot understand, and I can focus on the “khutbah,” during which I am supposed to pay my undivided attention. I can fulfill my Friday prayer obligation in ten minutes flat (a “Drive-thru Jumu’ah,” if you will). Yet, the purpose of the Friday prayer is not to pray and leave, as I did on that Friday, but to re-charge my spirit on a weekly basis. For far too long, too many Friday prayers have left me totally disappointed.

  Really. If “The Simpsons” were produced by Muslims for a Muslim audience, there would be a new Jumah ‘mission fail’ joke every week.