October 31, 2004 – islamicate

Qalandar

islamoyankeeOctober 31, 2004

If you are translating from a language other than English, please include the original text as well…. What you send in does not have to do with Islam in any way, the site is more to get a place for people to be exposed to new literature.

Web/Tech

A Self-Reflexive Moment

islamoyankeeOctober 31, 2004

We started this blog in October of 2003 (I really should have marked the date), so we have now completed one year on the web…. The last few months, we have become focused on the Presidential election, and while we are not a strictly political blog, we will need to re-center once the President is announced (date TBA).

Current Affairs

OBL as statesman

islamoyankeeOctober 31, 2004

My once criticism is that the author talks about how Hezbollah, PLO, the IRA developed political wings. However, all also provided social services, which is what gave their political ideology cachet amongst the people they were attempting to represent.