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Today is November 5th, Guy Fawkes Night. It marks the day when a plot to attack Parliament and overthrow the British government was foiled. Four centuries later, the night is known less for high treason and more for high spirits...
Afghanistan as we know it was created in the 18th century for reasons of military defense. Throughout Afghan history, there was never really any cohesive agent to bind the various ethno-religious groups which comprise the country...
The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has exposed divisions in Nato by accusing the west of treating Iran unfairly over its nuclear programme and describing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, its vehemently anti-western president, as a friend...
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is due to go on trial for war crimes next week. But the truth about the infamous 1995 Srebrenica massacre is still being sought by victims' families, who say the world has forgotten this terrible crime....
Six months into his stint as a guard at Guantánamo, Terry Holdbrooks converted to Islam. What made him do it, asks Sarfraz Manzoor Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guantánamo detention camp in the summer of 2003 as a godless 19-year-old with a love of drinking, hard rock music and tattoos. ...
Israel received an uncomfortable reminder of international anger over the Gaza war today when lawyers representing 16 Palestinians asked a London court to issue an arrest warrant for its defence minister, Ehud Barak, who is visiting Britain...
May Allah accept your fasting, prayers, and acts of charity, and may this be a blessed Eid for all. Schenectady got a few new outfits, hand-knit socks, rubber duckies, a book and some cash. Not bad for a first Eid...
Israel pays lip-service to the two-state solution, while making it impossible The Jewish state condemns illegal settlers but continues to take the Palestinians' land and to strangle their economy On 2 August 2009, after cordoning off part of the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east...
http://islam.about.com/od/ramadan/a/moonsighting.htm (excerpt) There is a debate among the Muslim community on just how to calculate the beginning of the month of Ramadan (or indeed any month, but Ramadan takes on special importance)...
http://raquelevita.wordpress.com/about/ Raquel Evita Saraswati is an American Muslim activist whose main interests are religion and human rights, conflict resolution, women’s issues and democracy. ...
Happy World Breastfeeding Week! What the heck does this have to do with Islam and/or Muslims? Plenty...
Though from a cultural Shia Muslim family, intro to Islam came via Bollywood's "Muslim social" films
Whenever I find myself surrounded by "reverts" including both complete neophytes to Islam and those who come from Muslim cultural backgrounds, it amazes me that few are aware of Bollywood and its depictions of Muslim piety during the height of "Bollywood's Golden Age." Afghans consume Bollywood...
For the winning punters chancing their luck at Hawaiian Gardens' charity bingo hall in the heart of one of California's poorest towns, the big prize is $500. The losers walk away with little more than an assurance that their dollars are destined for a good cause...
I am a bit of a collector of what the 16th Century Humanist and Protestant Reformer, Sebastian Castellio described as the follies and vanities of theology...
This may be an unusual post, but I ran into an interesting card game entitled Footsteps of the Prophet by Azazelo al-Qureshi. The game is about the succession to Muhammad - it looks interesting and is available in Arabic and English.
