Category: Weblogs
You Should be reading
Talk Islam and Muslimah Media Watch. Both are group blogs and both do a bang-up job of covering some of the more neglected issues relating to Muslims in the MSM. (I cross-post at TI.) TI’s posts tend to be shorter, but the discussions are really where the juice of the site is. You really see the diversity of the community in play. MMW deals with issues relating to women, and they have some great analytic minds at work. Next revision of islamicate will have their feeds on display.
City of Brass: Guest Post on Ashura
Aziz was kind enough to allow me a guest post on City of Brass while he travels. I’ve written on Ashura here. Ashura
Facebook Network
Facebook has a tool where you can now follow blogs, and recommend them, via a Blog Networks application. If you FB and read this, please join up with any of the places I blog: http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/islamicate/ http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/the_devils_advocate_hussein_rashid/ http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/the_devils_advocate/
Devil’s Advocate’s Postings
A series of posts up at The Devil’s Advocate that I forgot to mention: The Pope’s Interfaith Issues | RD Blog: The Devil’s Advocate | ReligionDispatches Why Don’t Muslims Condemn Terrorism? | RD Blog: The Devil’s Advocate | ReligionDispatches Michael Jackson, Muslim | RD Blog: The Devil’s Advocate | ReligionDispatches Barack Hussein Obama and a Post-Religious America | RD Blog: The Devil’s Advocate | ReligionDispatches
Shout Out: Leadership
My friend Andrea, of ReligionWriter fame, is part of Newsweek’s/Washington Post’s new section on Leadership. Go read.
Kudos
Congrats are in order to two of my regular read: 1. Svend at Akram’s Razor made it on to Beliefnet’s Top 10 list of Muslim blogs. 2. Aziz is now at Beliefnet with City of Brass. This news is old, but I’m late to the party. Great job by two deserving individuals. Also, good job by Beliefnet recognizing the talent these guys represent.
Devil’s Advocate: Rabbi Lerner is Wrong about Rahm
My latest over there can be found here.
New Devil’s Advocate Posting
My latest Devil’s Advocate posting on our first modern Muslim president, and it’s not about Obama.
On this Blog and Politics
A reader by the name of “Concerned” comments: I’m not sure what these anti-McCain and Palin missives have to do with the stated mission of your website which is to discuss issues surrounding Muslims and Islam I think it’s a fair enough question. Part of the answer lies in the origins of this blog, which is part of the post-9/11 narrative in this country and coincided with the rise of Gulf War II rhetoric. Inevitably, the discussions on this blog focused on US foreign policy, which is inherently tied to politics. The pattern was set. Second, the US is part…