Day: August 15, 2010

Inter-faith

This Ramadan, Myself and God, Before I Was Born

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I appreciate Haroon’s keen analytic mind, which you can see over at Avari. But then, every so often, he just comes out with poetry that I didn’t know he had in him. Haroon Moghul: This Ramadan, Myself and God, Before I Was Born. It is the Muslim belief that the memory of this moment is buried inside of us. Though we do not inherit sin, though we are each born innocent, though no one can be tried for the errors of another, still somehow this memory courses through each of us. It may appear as a flash, a moment of…

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Intra-faith

The Biggest Muslim Capitals in America – The Daily Beast

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The Pew numbers are so wrong, that I am amazed they are still being used. We know that there are over 800,000 Muslims in NYC alone, which would mean 1/2 of the US Muslim population is in NYC according to Pew’s numbers. Other than that, the slideshow that goes with the article is amazing. The Biggest Muslim Capitals in America – The Daily Beast. “I think Muslims view the U.S. as a beacon of freedom,” says Farhana Khera, president and executive director of Muslim Advocates, an advocacy organization. According to Pew, two-thirds of the Muslim population was born outside the…

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