Updating TypeLists

islamoyankee

Added 1001 Inventions (finally) to “islaam salaam.” They’ve also got a blog now, which I just noticed.

Added Progressive Islam (go Ali and co.) to “moslemeque.” They’ve chosen as their tag line an ayat from one of my favorite surahs, both for its content and its oral/aural component.

Related Posts

Thanksgiving

Thanks to all our readers, and this year we have enough regular readers whom we know that it would take too long to list all of you by name…. Thanks to all the contributors, anonymous and regular, who keep the posts flowing.

Here’s the Outrage

I’m wondering where the outrage is, and finally I see that Muslims are offended by the desecration of holy sites by other Muslims, if not by Muslim-on-Muslim violence. I’m glad to see the Shi’ah of Najaf are rising up against those who would take their (Najafi) Islam and use it for their own (non-Najafi) purposes. Imam Ali (PBUH) was the son-in-law and cousin of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). He is regarded by the Shi’ah as being the heir to both temporal and spiritual authority of the Islamic community. He was martyred because he tried to peacefully end the first civil war…