http://delicious.com/azizhp/%40brass_crescent bookmarks tagged @brass_crescent by azizhp 2009-03-27T12:52:32Z http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/opinion/09cohen.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1236916800&en=2ca99d67ca5bac74&ei=5087%0A azizhp Hezbollah is in the Lebanese national unity government, whereas Hamas won the free and fair January 2006 elections to the Legislative Council of the Palestinian Authority, only to discover Middle Eastern democracy is only democracy if it produces the right result. The United States should follow the British example. It should initiate diplomatic contacts with the political wing of Hezbollah. Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, @brass_crescent 2009-03-27T12:44:10Z http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/world/middleeast/19israel.html?_r=3&hp azizhp Of course, for Israel’s critics, including those who firmly support the existence of a Jewish state, the problem is not one of image but of policy. They point to four decades of occupation, the settling of half a million Israeli Jews on land captured in 1967, the economic strangling of Gaza for the past few years and the society’s growing indifference toward the creation of a Palestinian state. --ap Israel, Gaza, @brass_crescent 2008-12-23T23:30:57Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/PINiOUgHcBg/5th-annual-brass-crescent-awar-1.html azizhp On behalf of both altmuslim.com and City of Brass, we&#039;d like to thank the nearly 1000 people who voted in the Fifth Annual Brass Crescent Awards.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/PINiOUgHcBg" height="1" width="1"/> @talkislam @brass_crescent http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2008/12/5th-annual-brass-crescent-awar-1.html 2008-12-17T14:43:59Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/hwkeQnJ459Q/al-qaeda-attack-on-the-hajj-fo.html azizhp nothing is sacred to thse barbarians.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/hwkeQnJ459Q" height="1" width="1"/> @talkislam @brass_crescent terrorism Hajj http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2008/12/al-qaeda-attack-on-the-hajj-fo.html 2008-12-12T20:23:55Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/Knwo4xE62k0/ azizhp The reality is that Turkish state and society are precariously balanced between three distinct visions: the aggressive chauvinism of its Kemalist founding; the Islamist ambitions of its resurgent religious consciousness; and the secularist ambitions of its burgeoning entrepreneurial and urban classes.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/Knwo4xE62k0" height="1" width="1"/> @talkislam @brass_crescent @NB Turkey http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2EzYzIxYzRmOTEwNTBhZmEwNTI0ZmQ3OTRmOTFlMmE= 2008-10-02T15:54:58Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/X8jr8eLJvtE/5th-annual-brass-crescent-awar.html azizhp the 5th Annual Brass Crescent Awards are now underway!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/X8jr8eLJvtE" height="1" width="1"/> @talkislam @brass_crescent islamosphere http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2008/10/5th-annual-brass-crescent-awar.html 2008-09-30T23:11:34Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/oA1-eb-g-KI/eid-alfitr-mubarak.html azizhp The US Postal Service and the Empire State Building commemorate the holiday for muslim-Americans. Also, I praise President Bush.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/oA1-eb-g-KI" height="1" width="1"/> islam @brass_crescent http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2008/09/eid-alfitr-mubarak.html 2008-09-11T14:49:09Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/L1vD6qveEzg/muslims-condemn-terror-again-a.html azizhp Discussing and debunking the &quot;silence libel&quot; against muslim-Americans, that we have not denounced terrorism.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/L1vD6qveEzg" height="1" width="1"/> @talkislam @brass_crescent http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2008/09/muslims-condemn-terror-again-a.html 2008-07-02T12:45:39Z http://religiondispatches.org/Gui/Content.aspx?Page=BL&Id=330 azizhp jihadi feminists aren&#039;t content to stay home, either. -ap @brass_crescent @talkislam 2008-06-12T17:13:24Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/n2e7VTnNNj4/ azizhp Tariq Nelson summarizes a great article in the Philadelphia press that lauds the Germantown Masjid community for their decision not to bury cop-killing muslim Howard Cain. -ap<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/n2e7VTnNNj4" height="1" width="1"/> @brass_crescent http://tariqnelson.com/2008/06/12/lifting-the-veil-on-black-islam/ 2008-06-11T13:35:37Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/tU-AJwsXA3c/anti-ahmadiyya-rage-in-indonesia.html azizhp The sight was impressive, tens of thousands on streets of Jakarta protesting against the Ahmadiyyas (Qadianis) but the cause wasn&#039;t.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/tU-AJwsXA3c" height="1" width="1"/> Indonesia, @brass_crescent @talkislam http://www.anindianmuslim.com/2008/06/anti-ahmadiyya-rage-in-indonesia.html 2008-06-06T01:16:20Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/xrDPV8xp49Y/ azizhp I feel full of rage and pain. I feel full of hope for the future now that I am not shackeled by that cult. I am still coming to terms with being spiritually raped and feeling like my life has been. I don’t know how to convey the extremes of the pain.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/xrDPV8xp49Y" height="1" width="1"/> @brass_crescent salafi Islam http://salafiburnout.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/life-after-being-in-the-salafi-cult/ 2008-06-05T15:44:06Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/f6cmnUutiuM/ azizhp &quot;As a result of what went on, ... they associate the direct word of Allah with pain and suffering.&quot; -ap<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/f6cmnUutiuM" height="1" width="1"/> qur'an @brass_crescent Pakistan http://mooslim.com/blog/?p=218 2008-05-30T16:25:19Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/wHPfHh3-ykA/penelope.html azizhp Penelope, Ithaka’s lonesome Queen / is weaving webs of excuse and deceit (poem by Tiel Aisha Ansari)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/wHPfHh3-ykA" height="1" width="1"/> @brass_crescent http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2008/05/penelope.html 2008-05-20T14:14:18Z http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~3/ltJQ-T-e-5k/quran-shooter.html azizhp The US military has apologized for an incident where a sergeant shot a copy of the Qur&#039;an. But was this really necessary? -ap<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/brass_crescent_blogs/~4/ltJQ-T-e-5k" height="1" width="1"/> @brass_crescent http://cityofbrass.blogspot.com/2008/05/quran-shooter.html