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Chinese New Year – Year of the Tiger
Happy Chinese New Year to all the Chinese brothers and sisters. 恭喜发财 If the readers want to know how to greet Chinese people on this ocassion, here is link which can help you. http://blog.mangolanguages.com/2010/02/15/a-happy-chinese-new-year-at-mango-languages/ (Image Source: http://www.malaysiasite.nl/images/tigerchinese.gif) ...
Transmission of the flamethrower from Greece to China
The flame thrower was invented in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) who used it against the Arab Muslims. It was later adopted by the Muslims who transmitted it to China. The Chinese author Lin Yu explained in his book in 919 AD that it was acquired by the Chinese...
Muslims and Chinese Rocket Technology in the time of Kublai Khan
While it is widely known that the Chinese were instrumental in inventing explosives and in advancing early rocket technology, it is less known that during the time of Kublai Khan Turkish Muslims were instrumental in helping the Mongols in conquering China and advancing this technology and building siege weapons. According...
Chinese pilgrims return home from Mecca
From the Xinhua news agency. Chinese pilgrims return home from Mecca YINCHUAN, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — A plane carrying 323 Chinese pilgrims landed safely at Hedong Airport of Yinchuan, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Saturday afternoon. They are the first batch of Chinese...
Finally Rumi’s Masnavi has been translated into Chinese. Work on other languages like Korean translation is still ongoing. The link is in Turkish, you can use a translation utility like Google Translation to view the page in English. ...
Islam in China wins Brass Cresent Awards and Facebook
The Islam in China Blog won the Brass Crescent Award for the best Muslim blog in the East and South East Asian Blog category. Thank you to the readers and Jazak’Allah for voting for the Islam in China Blog. To connect more with the readers I have created a Fan...
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Sunday Open Thread – 3/7/10 – Upcoming Media Events
Sunday Open Thread for March 3, 2010...
Charity – The Best of Both Worlds
A reflection on the apparent and hidden benefits of helping those less fortunate than ourselves....
Our Condolences at the Passing of Aminah Assilmi
From the International Union of Muslim Women: Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon. Our beloved sister, Aminah Assilmi passed away this morning in an automobile accident. We pray that Allah (SWT) will shower His mercy on this sister and grant her the highest level of Paradise – Jannat Ul-Firdous – and give...
Arabic Dictionaries and Resources for Students
For students of Arabic, there are a lot of wonderful dictionaries and resources available online and in-print. However, the wrong dictionary at certain stages of learning could lead to a lot of frustration, unnecessary expenditure of time and even ultimately a loss of motivation to study Arabic. Thus, here is...
Six C’s of Good Character, Part 4
Read the final part of the video transcript of Yassir Fazaga's inspiring talk on PeaceTV. He discusses the topic of good character: its importance, what it is, and how to obtain it....
In Witnessing the Signs of Allah, A Call to Repentance
While some have failed to abide by true love to him (sallaAllahu alayhe wasallam) this lunar month, by celebrating that which he did not command to be celebrated, they have forgotten that this great Prophet was one who, “Whenever he saw clouds or wind, his color would change.”...
Outlines
Won’t you take me to the Queen of Hearts?
It has been faaaaar too long. I write this in the hope that someone, somewhere is still reading, but I know that ultimately, I blog for myself. I want to write more. I do. But then I want to write about so much that I don’t know where to start and...
An even stranger trip home then usual. I always have a head swimmy feeling as I leave due to mutual sobbing with Umm Mr Outlines. I do not like goodbyes. This is made worse on the way to the airport with the big, blue sign above the motorway which reads ‘GOOD...
Is anyone still there? Anyway, after an unintended break , I shall be taking another one.Alhamdulilah for planes, as insha Allah, I’ll be in Syria later today. So no internetry until I get back. *shakes*. A summary of things I could have written about before, but didn’t: Nick Griffin on Question Time: Tosser. And...
A belated Ramadan and Eid Mubarak to you all. I have recently moved and had no internet, hence my delay in moderating and blogging. Two recent posts here have discussed spiritual abuse within Islam, particularly the abuse meted out to women. The most recent post provoked a detailed discussion. Here is a...
So Salafi Burnout’s website has been taken down. While the comments were full of trollery, there were a lot of people able to finally talk about the abuse they had suffered at the hands of so called ’scholars’. Naively, I had hoped that from revelations there and elsewhere, there would be a...
Scribbles Not Outlines 7: Better out than in
Salaam Alaikum to anyone left reading this. It has indeed been far too long. Oreo is now six months old. The title refers to her, as I’m enjoying being a mother about a million times more then I enjoyed being pregnant. People say about mothers loving their babies, but I don’t love...
Darvish
Salaam and Greetings of Peace: To acquire knowledge is binding upon all Muslims, whether male or female. He who travels in the search of knowledge, to him God shows the way of Paradise. Acquire knowledge, because he who acquires it in the way of the Lord performs an act of piety;...
Milad Un-Nabi – Birthday of the Prophet (pbuh)
Salaam and Greetings of Peace: “You have indeed in the Messenger of God a beautiful pattern of conduct for anyone whose hope is God and the Final Day.” (Al-Ahzab 33:21). Alhamdulillah! The moon is full, a reminder that this is Rabi a-Awwal, by the Lunar calendar the month of the blessed birthday...
Salaam and Greetings of Peace: I read of a Christian woman years ago who went on a forty day meditation retreat in a monastic cell. When she finally came out, all she could say is: “Everything is love!” Surely those who open to faith and do beautiful wholesome works, for them the...
Islamic Writer Alliance Poetry Contest 2010
Salaam and Greetings of Peace: The Islamic Writers Alliance is sponsoring its Annual Poetry Contest for 2010 in April to coincide with National Poetry Month in the US. The theme of this year’s contest is ibadah, or worship. Submissions will be accepted from April 1st through April 30th 2010. For complete...
One Chicago, One Nation – Short Film Contest
Salaam and Greetings of Peace: I received this email from Souheila Al-Jadda, a producer at Link TV, and promised to help get the word out about the “One Chicago, One Nation” short film contest (under 5 minutes). It is a worthy interfaith project, and I am from Chicago, although the contest is...
Purple Hijab Day Against Domestic Violence
Salaam and Greetings of Peace: International Purple Hijab Day, Saturday, February 13, 2010 is a day to reflect on the deaths which have resulted from domestic violence. A purple hijab is an apt reference for this phenomenon. The hijab—or head scarf, is a symbol of the modesty and piety associated with...
Laila Lalami
I’m back in Los Angeles for a reading at Book Soup. This will be one of only two events that I will be doing in L.A. to promote the paperback launch of Secret Son. Here are the details: 7:00 PM Reading and Signing Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood California If you’re around,...
I’ve been to Georgia only once before, for a conference when I was in graduate school. I do remember, however, that I kept getting lost in Atlanta because nearly every street was named “Peach.” Peachtree Road. Peachtree Street. New Peachtree Road. Old Peachtree Street. You get the picture....
I am back in Los Angeles, but only briefly, as I have to be on the road again next week. You can listen to my appearance on BBC Radio 4 here. And my interview with Mark Coles on BBC’s The Strand has been archived here....
Greetings from London, where it’s really chucking it down at the moment. (”Chucking it down” is one of those wonderful Britishisms I’ve been picking up since I got here; it means “raining heavily.”) The event at the University of East Anglia on Tuesday night was a smashing success,...
I’m in London this week for the launch of the U.K. edition of my book, Secret Son. I will be doing some interviews (details to come soon) and I will also be reading at the University of East Anglia, as part of their literary festival. Here are the...
By sheer coincidence, three of the five most recent books I’ve read were set in Vietnam or featured Vietnamese characters. One of these was Monique Truong’s debut novel, The Book of Salt, in which the main character, Binh, works as a cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas....
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Guide to Travel: Mecca Diaries - CNN.com
Over a four-day period, Mecca's population is more than doubled, with legions of devout Muslims making their way shoulder to shoulder through the dozen rituals that comprise Hajj. If it weren't for the solemn and religious underpinnings, it would be an unnerving assembly of human beings for such a concentrated......
Constituents Confront GOP Rep. Myrick Over Muslim-Bashing At Tense Town Hall (AUDIO) | TPMMuckraker
Muslim constituents repeatedly challenged Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) at an emotional town hall meeting in Charlotte Thursday, with Myrick scrambling to distance herself from the Islam-bashing co-author of the book Muslim Mafia, whose foreword was written by the congresswoman herself. Myrick has had a tense relationship with her district's Muslim......
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Food Stamps, Imran Malik and CPAC – GRITtv with Laura Flanders ...
Mr Toledano : America the gift shop
If American foreign policy had a souvenir shop, what would it sell? AMERICA THE GIFT SHOP is an installation project that reflects the foreign policy of the last eight years through the fun-house mirror of American commerce. Mr Toledano : America the gift shop....
How To Talk To A Jihadist - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
How To Talk To A Jihadist - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan . To see political leaders in the West have such a low view of the American judicial system and such an elevated view of the world-historical significance of these pathetic, twisted, religious nutjobs…well, they look like......
But surely the proper conclusion to be drawn, then, is that being an ethically upright and generally virtuous person is, however surprising this result may be, consistent with being tolerant, peace-loving, even with upholding due process. And there is no particular difficulty to the trick of being in favor of......