AltMuslimah

[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…

We are now listed on muslim.alltop.com, part of the Alltop news aggregation service. Their mission is: We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web.… We import the stories of the top news websites and blogs for any given topic. So here’s our cool badge: The really cool part is that Alltop is founded by Guy Kawasaki. For a Mac-head, it’s really amazing. There are two people higher on the Mac pantheon, Steve himself, and Jonathan Ive. I don’t expect him to read the blog, but we got a shout on a…

I thought I would start my first foray into the world of webblogs with an entry on why and how I became interested in the subject of Islam. Let me first state that I am an architect by training and have never had any courses on Islam, its history, its jurisprudence, or its various expressions. My interest is simple a matter of “redemption”. In the books I read and the movies that I watch, I have always been fascinated with the notion of the fall and the process of redemption. This is why I have been particularly fascinated with Westerns…