Chinese spread Islam, not Arabs

This article doesn’t seem to answer the question, but raises more. Technorati Tags: Ismailis, Saudi Arabia

Given by a female writer friend to a male friend, both of whom wish to remain anonymous: A little lingering eye contact (ended when you carefully look away, as though remembering that you are in fact a dutiful Muslim brother even though you contain deep uncharted oceans of complexity and longing, a fact of which she will be thoroughly appraised by said lingering eye contact) should do it. humor, humor

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches. As scholar Scott Kugle knows well, to be both Muslim and gay means the possibility of having to “come out twice”—with the likely chance of encountering either homophobia or Islamophobia (or both), depending on the context.