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Bittersweet: A Muslim’s Spiritual Perspective on Special Needs Parenting

Posted in Life, Muslims on July 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »

This is a beautiful post that shows the love of a mother for her special needs son. Other than the Arabic words peppered throughout the article Christians will immediately feel that this mother is like any mother of a special needs child. She knows that life is harder. And she knows that it can be [...]

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Manchester Muslims donate to Christian Community Centre

Posted in Muslims on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From City of Brass with Aziz Poonawalla: Lost in all the noise and recrimination of modern Islamophobia about mosques and minarets and burkas and whatnot, is the simple fact that the vast majority of muslims, jews and christians are neighbors, and members of the same civic fabric, and act accordingly towards common interests. Case in point: [...]

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Islam in America

Posted in Muslims on July 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Al Jazeera English did a really interesting look at Islam in America a couple years ago. It was hosted by Rageh Omar who is a Somali born British Muslim. His first stop is Minneapolis, MN where he connects with the large Somali population there and is surprised to hear of how strongly they consider America [...]

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A Is for Allah

Posted in Arabic, Islam, Muslims on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My last post reminded me of “A Is for Allah.” It was written by Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) for his daughter to teach the Arabic alphabet. You can read all the lyrics here. I think it is a very beautiful song.

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Great Music

Posted in Muslims, World on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I really enjoyed listening to this song, “Alif Allah”, performed by Arif Lohar and Meesha Shafi. It comes from Coke Studio, “a musical fusion platform of exciting elements and influences, ranging from traditional eastern, modern western and regionally inspired music coming together to form a distinctive Pakistani sound.” You can read about the artists, see [...]

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Christian Muslim Forum

Posted in Christians, Muslims, Understanding on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I originally posted this last month, but for some reason I am getting lots of spam comments from it so I deleted the original post and am reposting it in the hopes that the spam will stop. I read about a men’s retreat for Muslims and Christians that looked at the life of Abraham in the [...]

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She Doesn’t Want to Be a Moderate Muslim

Posted in Muslims on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I refuse to live as a “moderate” Muslim if its side effect is an unintentional admission that suicide bombing is a religious obligation for the orthodox faithful. True orthodoxy is simply the attempt to adhere piously to a religion’s tenets. This is an interesting article by Asma Khalid. Check it out: “Why I Am not [...]

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Spain’s Senate Votes to Ban Burqa

Posted in Fear, Muslims on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

With this law no one will be allowed to wear clothing that covers their faces. Of course, this is geared specifically for Muslim women who wear a burqa. It is an attempt to curb Islamic extremists in the name of equal rights for women. I don’t doubt that there are Muslim women who wear the [...]

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A Muslim and Jew get Married, Pastor Does Ceremony

Posted in Jews, Marriage, Muslims on June 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »

From the NY Times The couple chose an olive branch as their theme for the Jewish-Muslim union, and the ceremony under a wedding canopy combined readings in Arabic and English, and a traditional Palestinian wedding dance. HT: Isalmicate

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Ethical Guidelines for Christian and Muslim Witness

Posted in Christians, Making God known, Muslims on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I previously mentioned the Christian Muslim Forum. One of the interesting articles on their site is “Ethical Guidelines for Christian and Muslim Witness in Britain.” Their goal is to help Christians and Muslims “share their faith with integrity and compassion.” Here are their 10 guidelines: 1. We bear witness to, and proclaim our faith not [...]

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