City of Brass: Guest Post on Ashura

Woo-hoo! It’s official, islamicate is a banned site. We are not reachable in Qatar. We’re officially censored. Mark of honor. Need a badge to put on the site.

A quick thanks to Muslim WakeUp! for being so quick to acknowledge us and sending us good wishes and support.

[edited for “i really should have proofread it one more time” mistakes.] So a few days ago I said I was working on a post on the state and inclusion. My hook was going to be about gay marriages and the hijab, but the article I linked to did a pretty good job of covering some of that ground. Then an article got picked up by Al-Muhajabah and Muslims Under Progress about the legality of Islam in Australia. I hadn’t seen it the article, and left the issue on the back-burner. Dervish Du’a gave me the details (and some good…