Day: August 1, 2011

Inter-faith

Mayor Mike Says #Ramadan Mubarak

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NYC.gov. “There is no single reason why New York is the greatest city on earth, but chief among them is that the world’s hardest-working people come to achieve a better life for their families and simultaneously enrich and are enriched by their neighbors once here. The start of Ramadan marks the beginning of a time of fasting, prayer and reflection for New Yorkers in all Five Boroughs, and I want to extend my best wishes for this holiest month on the Muslim calendar. Ramadan Mubarak.”

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Intra-faith

Ramadan blogging is alive and well this year… « Talk Islam

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Also have to shout out 30 Days, 30 Mosques. Ramadan blogging is alive and well this year… « Talk Islam. Ramadan blogging is alive and well this year! I am doing a series called Longest Days, Shortest Month at my blog on Beliefnet, and Wajahat Ali is doing a series for Patheos called Spiritual Appetite. Also a few years ago Shahed Amanullah did a series at Beliefnet called Hungry for Ramadan. Anyone have other Ramadanblogging links to share?

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Politics

Distrust Between West And Islam

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Distrust Between West And Islam. ”There’s an osmosis in war,” declares the once idealistic army lieutenant Hearn in Norman Mailer’s classic novel The Naked and the Dead. ”Call it what you will, but the victors always tend to assume the . . . the, eh, trappings of the loser.”  Of course, the ”war on terror” wasn’t really a war, and it is far from clear who emerged from it as victor and loser. Nonetheless, after the tragedy in Oslo, the osmosis is obvious. These sorts of attacks were meant to be the preserve of the Islamists who have dominated a…

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