Israel Palestine Blogs » City Of Brass http://israelpalestineblogs.com The Peace Blog Aggregator Wed, 23 May 2012 13:22:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Muhammad Asad and Islam as a rational faith http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/muhammad-asad-and-islam-as-a-rational-faith.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/muhammad-asad-and-islam-as-a-rational-faith.html#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 23:49:11 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1500 lengthy essay by Talal Asad of his father, Muhammad Asad (b. Leopold Weiss 1900 d. 1992), a convert to Islam from Judaism and one of the 20th century's great Islamic thinkers. I found this part particularly resonant about how at its core, Islam is an appeal to reason as well as faith: The first and most...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/muhammad-asad-and-islam-as-a-rational-faith.html/feed/ 0 Mubarak, Facebook! and shukran http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/mubarak-facebook-and-shukran.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/mubarak-facebook-and-shukran.html#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 14:32:41 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1494 Facebook goes public, and begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange at 11:00am Eastern time (the truly addicted stockwatchers may want to bookmark this). Amidst all the noise about IPOs and investments and whatnot today, I think it's important to celebrate facebook for the social innovation it represents,...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/mubarak-facebook-and-shukran.html/feed/ 0 Islam and Star Wars Day: Allah is the Force http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/islam-and-star-wars-day-allah-is-the-force.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/islam-and-star-wars-day-allah-is-the-force.html#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 12:57:52 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1481 Jumah Mubarak, and May the 4th be with you! Today is Star Wars day, the day we remember with fondness the three greatest movies of our childhood and tolerate three others that were loosely related. The Jedi order has always had a special resonance for geeky muslim youth in the West. Every muslim kid knows that green is the color of Islam as well as the color of the coolest Jedi (Obi-wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker). But for more substantive parallels, look no further than my friend...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/islam-and-star-wars-day-allah-is-the-force.html/feed/ 0 the post-Osama world, Year One http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/the-post-osama-world-year-one.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/the-post-osama-world-year-one.html#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 12:49:01 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1477 It's the one-year anniversary of the successful killing of Osama bin Laden. Having gone through the requisite 5 stages of emotion over the act long ago, I find that looking back at it now, it feels as though little has changed. Al Qaeda remains a distributed...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/05/the-post-osama-world-year-one.html/feed/ 0 the new Exodus: Christians flee the occupation of the Holy Land http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/the-new-exodus-christians-flee-the-occupation-of-the-holy-land.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/the-new-exodus-christians-flee-the-occupation-of-the-holy-land.html#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:27:46 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1473 the show script). In a nutshell, Read the full post here »


]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/the-new-exodus-christians-flee-the-occupation-of-the-holy-land.html/feed/ 0 FBI’s PATCON investigations and relevance to muslim surveillance http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/fbis-patcon-investigations-and-relevance-to-muslim-surveillance.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/fbis-patcon-investigations-and-relevance-to-muslim-surveillance.html#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:45:40 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1469 anniversary of the OKC bombing, and had some comment about the relevance to today's investigations and surveillance of muslims. There's a lengthy article in Foreign Policy that talks about the PATCON investigations by the FBI in the 80's, which failed to detect McVeigh, which also touches...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/fbis-patcon-investigations-and-relevance-to-muslim-surveillance.html/feed/ 0 Captain Jack Sparrow was (based on a real) muslim pirate http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/captain-jack-sparrow-was-based-on-a-real-muslim-pirate.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/captain-jack-sparrow-was-based-on-a-real-muslim-pirate.html#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:15:30 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1463 Earlier I'd linked to an amusing graphic making the case that Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean fame was possibly a crypto-muslim. As it turns out, though, Suhaib Webb has a much more indepth analysis of the real historical inspiration for Jack Sparrow: Read the full post here »


]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/captain-jack-sparrow-was-based-on-a-real-muslim-pirate.html/feed/ 0 17 years later: The Oklahoma City bombing http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/17-years-late-the-oklahoma-city-bombing.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/17-years-late-the-oklahoma-city-bombing.html#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:52:22 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1457 first major successful domestic terrorist attack on United States soil: the total destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. Looking at Twitter today I see some references to Holocaust Remembrance, a lot of political blather about dogs and cookies, and other assorted nonsense. Amidst the noise, however, are two tweets from Umar Lee in...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/04/17-years-late-the-oklahoma-city-bombing.html/feed/ 0 pink slime is not Halal http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/03/pink-slime-is-not-halal.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/03/pink-slime-is-not-halal.html#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:40:35 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1440 The controversy over so-called "pink slime" ground beef is repulsive on one level but also serves as a teaching moment about the value of eating halal. Here is how the beef industry defines pink slime: The...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/03/pink-slime-is-not-halal.html/feed/ 0 Out of India http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/03/out-of-india.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/03/out-of-india.html#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:21:08 +0000 Aziz Poonawalla http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/?p=1437 I've returned from my two-week trip to India and I'd like to thank Aamer for doing such an amazing job as guest blogger in my absence! This isn't Aamer's first time at City of Brass; he has also written two posts on Hajj: one about...

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