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Saturday, September 30, 2006

ramadan reading: the virtues of dhikr and al-ghazali

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So I finished The Virtues of Ramadan by Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi a few days ago. Now I want to go on to reread his book The Virtues of ...
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Friday, September 29, 2006

more 9/11 blues

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From the AP by way of Third Resurrection: A Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

the racial gap in the grandstands

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Businessweek: The Racial Gap In The Grandstands explores how and why African Americans are losing interest in baseball while Latinos seem t...

blacks in cuban med school

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Since 2001, the Latin American School of Medical Sciences (LASMS) in Havana, Cuba has been admitting students from various countries in Lati...
Monday, September 25, 2006

latinas choosing islam over catholicism

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Yesterday, Weekend Edition on NPR (National Public Radio) had a piece on Hispanic women converting to Islam. In the life of this blog I...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

the akashic records

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I'm feeling a little New Age-y today. On Friday I had lunch... wow, won't be saying that for a while...on Friday I had lunch with so...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

ramadan mubarak y'all

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it's the first day and I'm already staring at the clock waiting for the sun to set... maybe I should go outside. That way I could ge...
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pope benedict: the first year

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Alternet: Pope Benedict: The First Year by Matthias Beier (originally in Tikkun). A reasonable overview of the current pope and some of his...
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Thursday, September 21, 2006

the neocon's lexicon

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In These Times: In The Neocons’ Lexicon Salim Muwakkil deconstructs the contradictions which lie behind the Right's use of the term ...

the world faces us hegemony or survival

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Chavez's September 20th speech to the UN General Assembly

ramadan on saturday?

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In a surprise move, ISNA and the Fiqh Council of North America are anouncing that they are using astronomical calculations in order to deter...
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Monday, September 18, 2006

ramadan right around the corner

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Wow, it seems like Ramadan is sneaking up on me. It is right around the corner... less than a week away. To get ready I'm going to try t...

more on pope benedict and islam

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The often-insightful Juan Cole has recently produced two entries in the wake of Pope Benedict's gaffe on his Informed Comment blog: Pope...
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osama found

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The Onion: Osama Bin Laden Found Inside Each of Us

latest message from osama bin laden

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Where do people get the idea that Muslims have no sense of humor? Google Video: Latest Message from Osama Bin Laden
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Sunday, September 17, 2006

skipping towards armageddon

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I recently started and am almost finished with a book published by Soft Skull Press and written by Michael Standaert called Skipping Towards...
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Saturday, September 16, 2006

beyond visibility: rethinking the african diaspora in latin america

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CALL FOR PAPERS Beyond Visibility: Rethinking the African Diaspora in Latin America University of California-Berkeley March 1-2, 2007 Abstra...
Friday, September 15, 2006

better than pork

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another joke: A priest and a rabbi found themselves sharing a compartment on a train. After a while, the priest opened a conversation by say...
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moishe and the pope

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to keep things light... a joke: About a century or two ago, the Pope decided that all the Jewish people had to leave Rome. Naturally, there ...
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papal bull

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Benedict XVI's latest gaffe made me miss John Paul all the more. I first saw the picture below on Muslimahsoul's blog after Pope Joh...
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