islam doesn't speak, muslims do | "the ink of the scholar is worth more than the blood of the martyr" – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Unfortunately, it’s not a sequel to the great track Flight IC 408 by State of Bengal. It’s a horrid fantasy by a testosterone challenged man who wants everyone to think he has no fear. What his adolescent daydream reveals is quite the opposite: he is a coward who wants to be a hero. To quote Atrios: “The stupid, it burns.”
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Technically, Parsi music. Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara. I suppose it’s also Zanzibari music.
A friend from Harvard has a new article out on reading the Qur’an. If you can get your hands on it, you should read it. Excerpts are below, with citation information. Whitney Bodman, “Reading the Qurān as a Resident Alien,” Muslim World 99, no. 4 (2009): 689 – 706. — Many will read the Qur’ān casually, out of curiosity. Some will read it with more academic intent and some with polemical intent (a purpose that the Qur’ān condemns, Q 2:176). All of these readers are, in the words of Paul Griffiths, consumers of the Qur’ān. These readers are less likely…
You’ve invested all this time and effort into Zeba, you know you want to see her win. She deserves this, so final votes in now please. Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is it. After nearly 5000 entries and four rounds of competition, I am competing as one of two finalists in the final round of the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” Competition. Each round has been decided by online votes so it is because of your help that I have made it this far and I am asking for your help one last time. Voting for this FINAL round…
No Josh, you are not alone. I too have that confidence. But what do we have to fear? We’re going to lose this argument? Really? Why am I so alone in having confidence in this country and what it stands for? [From Don’t Get It]
Come on, you’ve invested so much in Zeba’s success already, you know you just have to see her win now. Hello Friends and Colleagues, I am thrilled to inform you that thanks to your support, I am a semifinalist in the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” competition. It’s a long way from being one of the initial ten contestants selected out of nearly 5000 entries to being in the Top Three and I could not have done it without your support. Now it’s crunch time. The two people with the highest number of online votes between Thursday, Nov 19th…
From Patheos: Patheos invites you to submit a video entry about your faith. Videos must fall into one of these three categories: “Why I Am A _______ ” (Christian, Jew, Muslim, Atheist, etc.) “How I Live My Faith On Campus” “Rituals & Practices Of My Faith.” PatheosVideoPoster.pdf
The role Arab-Americans play in the military: Consider Navy SEAL Mike Monsoor who threw himself on a grenade in Iraq on September 29, 2006. The device had landed among SEALs and Iraqi soldiers, and Monsoor absorbed the blast with his body, saving everyone’s life but his own. For his act of self sacrifice, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor last year. Then there’s Lance Corporal Abraham al-Thaibani of New York who enlisted with the Marines after his city was attacked on 9/11. On the day the World Trade Center towers fell, al-Thaibani ran through the streets of…