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• This is What I Call Progressive

  Published: June 17, 2007, 5:41 pm

  Tags: Muslim Issues

  days for us to say we are Muslim and the world will assume we are progressive. Today, we must be redundant. We must qualify Muslim with progressive. Okay, I can live with this. What I find gut wrenching is watching activists and political types, Muslims and non-Muslims, who call themselves progressive, but when they act they attack and judge

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• Who is a Muslim?

  Published: July 18, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Islam, Pakistan, Progressive Muslims, Who Is A Muslim

  to decide "Who is a Muslim?" Their decision in the end was that the State and community must recognize anyone who claims to be a Muslim to be a Muslim. That was the official position of the 2nd largest Muslim nation in the world--then the only "Islamic Republic"around--and that of its Ulema. Today, only the most

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• Imam Zaid Shakir on Bill Moyers

  Published: June 26, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: America, American Islam, American Muslim, Gender, Imam Zaid Shakir

  the experience of many Muslim women.  Bill Moyers is a very sympathetic interviewer, to a fault.  Imam Zaid could have discussed gender injustices here in the States.  He could have done so even within his own frame of reference and not that of gender justice activists.  He could have said that for his sense of the

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• PROGRESSIVE MUSLIMS CONVENE; STRUCTURE NEW ORGANIZATION

  Published: June 22, 2007, 8:53 am

  Tags: American Islam, American Muslim, Community, Islam, Mosque, Progressive, Progressive Islam, Progressive Muslim

  or radical right-wing Muslims. Online communities, mailing lists and Meet-Ups also built a community of people who self-identify as progressive Muslims, or just consider themselves progressives who happen to be Muslims--or vice versa. Various organizations, including the Progressive Muslim Union (PMU), were later

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• Good success to the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain

  Published: June 23, 2007, 3:23 pm

  Tags: Atheism, Child Abuse, Religion, Fanaticism, Ex Muslim

  to it all.Here's the ex-Muslims' press release:Manifesto of the Council of Ex-Muslims of BritainWe, non-believers, atheists, and ex-Muslims, are establishing or joining theCouncil of Ex-Muslims of Britain to insist that no one be pigeonholed asMuslims with culturally relative rights nor deemed to be represented byregressive Islamic

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• Hang that Belgian freak with the Something About Mary hair

  Published: July 19, 2007, 9:53 am

  Tags: Tintin, Muslim, Jeremy Clarkson, 10 Downing Street, Mega Mosque, Petitions, United Kingdom, Politics, Christianity, Harry Potter, Children, Comedy, News

  to our as-yet unsaved Muslim neighbours, there are other cracking petitions. For instance, the petition to repeal the laws against fox-hunting is countered by one to ignore the repeal petition. There's a petition (in the top 15 petitions) to make Jeremy Clarkson Prime Minister. Innocent Smoothies have a petition to cut taxation on

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• Hamasteopaths? Medical-Qaeda?

  Published: July 9, 2007, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Comedy, Al Qaeda, Doctors, Muslim, Terrorism, Islam, Christianity, Politics, Wars, News

  Doctor, doctor! I think I'm a sheep!' Really? That's baaaad ' Ah, doctor-doctor jokes. They're just not going to be the same after last week's revelations of suspected bomb-plotters being on the NHS payroll. Now it will all be: Doctor, doctor! I'm a wig-wam, I'm a teepee!' Your problem is you're too tense. Take three gas-canisters

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• What is in a name again?

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:26 am

  Tags: Hebrew, Characters, Languages, Arabic, Names, Ismael, Muslim, Conquering, Thinking Aloud, People

  and Arabic, because of our Muslim friends down South where I’ve been. I had a great time with them in Jolo, Sulu and I’m also interested with Inter-religious dialouge in Mindanao.   Vincent Celeste is my full name, while Khalid Ismael is my adapted Muslim name.. Khalid means, immortal, eternal, ageless,

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• AAAAARGH! (I’m afraid)

  Published: August 2, 2007, 6:27 am

  Tags: Muslim, Tabloids, Shark, United Kingdom, Terrorism, Christianity, Politics, Islam, News

  much more afraid must young Muslims be? And if anything is more dangerous than a society living in fear, it's a society divided by fear.

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• Police: gun linked to journalist's slaying found in Black Muslim bakery raid

  Published: August 4, 2007, 3:39 am

  Tags: Black Muslims, Your Black Muslim Bakery

  Police are testing guns and other evidence recovered from raids that resulted in the arrest of seven members of an Oakland Black Muslim splinter group that are believed to have been involved in the murder of a journalist and two others.

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• Police say suspect has confessed to shooting editor

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:07 am

  Tags: Black Muslims, Your Black Muslim Bakery

  Oakland Police Assistant Chief Howard Jordan said the suspect, Devaughndre Broussard, a 19-year-old associate of the group that runs the Oakland-based Your Black Muslim Bakery, has confessed to fatally shooting the 57-year-old Oakland Post editor.

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• BAA humbug!

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: United Kingdom, September 11th, Airports, Muslim, Plane Stupid, Baa, Consumerism, America, Politics, Christianity, Terrorism, Comedy, George W Bush, Youtube, Environment

  If you're not an obvious Muslim, you should get away with it (if you laugh and don't just start running). Try the same in an airport. Where comedy is prohibited, power has gone mad. Sadly, picketing over that won't make any difference either. Enjoy your holidays.

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• Judge orders Your Black Muslim Bakery to liquidate

  Published: August 9, 2007, 8:14 pm

  Tags: Black Muslims, Your Black Muslim Bakery

  U.S. bankruptcy Judge Edward Jellen said the bakery's management problems are getting worse, not better, and that Chapter 7 liquidation was the best way for the bakery to repay the IRS, its mortgage company and other creditors.

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• BAA humbug!

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: United Kingdom, September 11th, Airports, Muslim, Plane Stupid, Baa, Consumerism, America, Politics, Christianity, Terrorism, Comedy, George W Bush, Youtube, Environment

  If you're not an obvious Muslim, you should get away with it (if you laugh and don't just start running). Try the same in an airport. Where comedy is prohibited, power has gone mad. Sadly, picketing over that won't make any difference either. Enjoy your holidays.

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• GOP bigotry rears its ugly head

  Published: August 10, 2007, 10:47 am

  Tags: Hindu, Anti Evangelism, Prayer, Muslim, Exchristian, Christianity, Senate, Gop

  in the Senate, we have a Muslim member of the House of Representatives now, Keith Ellison from Minnesota. Those are changes and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers, asserts Sali.Sali says America was built on Christian principles that were derived from scripture. He also says the only way the United States has been

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