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Source:Wilton Park Conferences
A major conference has been taking place in the UK this week about how the Muslim world and the West can collaborate to tackle extremists. Featuring Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, Sami Yusuf, Dr. Ali Gomaa (Grand Mufti of Egypt), and many others.

We don’t want to […]

Source: NYTimes Magazine (found on multiple blogs: Usma, Danya, Amir…])
By CARLA POWER
Published: February 25, 2007
For Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the stock image of an Islamic scholar is a gray-bearded man. Women tend to be seen as the subjects of Islamic law rather than its shapers. And while some opportunities for religious education do exist for […]

Source: Islamica
Muslim Bubble Syndrome
Rethinking the Importance of Structure
By AZHAR USMAN
It is well-settled that one of the defining characteristics of
modernity—of what makes contemporary civilization work—is its reliance
upon structure. As a rule, to be successful at anything in the modern
world requires process and procedure. In a word, structure. In this
regard, throughout my life, I have observed […]

Source: The Associated Press
Obama, speaking at a massive outdoor rally in Austin, Texas, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision this week to withdraw 1,600 troops is a recognition that Iraq’s problems can’t be solved militarily.
“Now if Tony Blair can understand that, then why can’t George Bush and Dick Cheney understand that?” Obama asked […]

Note: Imam Siraj Wahhaj is a Sunni Muslim and not a member of the Nation of Islam! This could indeed be quite the historic moment…
Source: Meer’s Facebook Note
I think this is great news. Imagine a step towards unifying Black Sunnis and the NOI… a resurrection of its own kind- a religious revolution. Imagine a […]

Source: StarTribune.com
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., said on Tuesday that he is backing Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in his campaign for president.
“Not because he’s black,” said Ellison, who is black. “That’s identity politics. I reject identity politics.
“He speaks with a unifying spirit,” Ellison said.
Speaking to a Black History Month lunch-hour event for about 100 employees at […]

Subhanallah - what a powerful article. Imam Suhaib Webb and Faisal Ansari continue along the lines of Saad Omar’s recent post on Brothers:The Weakest Link, with their take on Men today and how popular culture is re-defining what it means to be a man.
I know I post alot of articles/news stories but I highly recommend […]

Source: Just Another Blog

Great interview on the origins of Outlandish, their musical influences, what motivates them, role of Music in Islam, advice for aspiring musicians, and much more [including how Isam and Waqas (Muslims) they deal with Lenny (the non-Muslim), lol]
Mashallah, many of Isam Bachiri’s responses seem like they have been quite influenced […]

Muhi (Abdullateef Muhiuddin Muhi) from Canton, Michigan recently performed a couple of spoken word poems this past Friday at an event co-sponsored by a handful of clubs featuring the Muslim rapper/artist/emcee One Be Lo at the University of Michigan @ Ann Arbor.
Mashallah, Muhi also has a great blog where he regularly posts much of […]

This is by far the most personal piece i have ever made public…this version has a few slight edits that were not in Haseeb’s version from earlier today

(I wrote the whole thing in about 10-15 minutes without stopping to even more a second to “write a deep rhyme,” or even look at what I wrote. […]

Source: One Good Move
Debate on Religion and Reason with Sam Harris, “Letter to a Christian Nation,” and Reza Aslan, “No god but God” from February 4, 2007 Does the Bible provide timeless prescriptions for our daily lives? Or does its inclusion of practices such as slavery preclude its ability to act as such a guide? […]

Yesterday my grandmother’s soul was returned to Her Creator.
Bibi Jaan, as we called her, was an amazing woman.
As a matter of fact, Bibijan wasn’t even my biological grandmother. My father and his six siblings were orphaned at young ages. They lost their mother when my youngest paternal aunt was only six months old, […]

Subhanallah, the scientific barakah in qaylulas (afternoon naps - which are sunnah!)
Source: BBC News
Taking 40 winks in the middle of the day may reduce the risk of death from heart disease, particularly in young healthy men, say researchers.
A six-year Greek study found that those who took a 30-minute siesta at least three times a […]