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Archive for April, 2008
Absence
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | 12 Comments »
A Game of Many Sides
Posted in Articles, Islam on April 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Do not ask God to be on your side. Try to be on God’s side, instead.
Is Science Larger Than Life?
Posted in Religion, Science, Uncategorized, tagged life, Science on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whoever agrees, hopefully will lend themselves to studies in live human brain. Their brains shall be cut up to learn about how brain works. Both Science and Humanity stands to gain from that experiment. It’s a win-win.
Origin of Conflict: Islam vs West?
Posted in Articles, Extremism, Islam, Muslim, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized, west, tagged Islam, Politics, war, west on April 22, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Neither the Islamic World nor the Western World are monoliths. They don’t even belong to the same class. Islam is a religion. West hardly is. More damaging to the idea is the fact that many westerners are Muslims. The phrase, “Islam vs West,” unjustly sweeps every person, every idea and every ideology in the West [...]
IJTEMA 2.0 Launched and The Winners of New Year New Hope Photo Contest Announced
Posted in Islam, Mosque, News, Politics, tagged blogging, ijtema, photo contest, visual on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The promised super-sleek IJTEMA 2.0 is here. It was designed by Shazia and our beloved sister iMuslim. Brother Teakstar designed the beautiful header. It has the following new features: Video and Audio on a separate panel to the right, for the multimedia savvy. Easier navigation Over the next week, Multimedia comes to Ijtema: New video [...]
Crafting an Antidote for Extremism
Posted in India on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
India has been reeling with rise of extremism on both sides of the camp- the Hindus and the Muslims. The most influential such groups is the Sangh Parivar, who will be my focus here. Rise of extremism in Muslims requires detailed analysis in it’s own “merit”, but the solutions are different in the two cases. [...]
The Eligible Bachalor Paradox
Posted in Mosque on April 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Probably all of us have at some point heard this: so many girls to marry, so few boys! Well, Consider the classic version of the marriage proposal: A woman makes it known that she is open to a proposal, the man proposes, and the woman chooses to say yes or no. The structure of the [...]
Homeschooling Muslims
Posted in Articles, News, women, tagged Islam, islamophobia, Muslim woman on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many Muslims are switching to homeschooling. NYT did a story on them. As usual they cherry picked quotes to feed prejudices. A Muslim homeschooling mom responds. They, somehow, are also very concerned about the Muslim woman. So they don’t like it when they are not oppressed. So they look for evidences against Muslim women being [...]
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