veiled4allah: Muslim voices 5/10 to 5/17

Here are the blogs with working permalinks; you'll go straight to the designated entry.

Sadia Salam continues her art history posts with a profile of Henri Matisse.

Karen Hanson talks about why it's wrong to make fun of others especially for their religious observances.

Aizuddin Danian says terrorists have no religion, only politics.

Faren shares an article about the health effects of passionate love in the views of the famous Muslim physicians Razi and Avicenna (ibn Sina).

Basil Gohar provides a review of and a link to streaming audio of a lecture called Common Sense of Islam.

Eva of To Submit posts an article about Islamic teachings on giving charity.

Khushee reflects on what you can hear in what seems to be silence.

Umair Salam uses his articles blog to share a sermon he gave about prayer.

Umar has an interesting article up called Dispelling myths about Islam from Muslim minds.


Here are the Blogger blogs. As always, scroll down to the designated entry.

Sara talks about her "interesting encounter" with an atheist and their discussion about religion and God (May 13).

Abez posts about "faith healers" who seem to spend most of their time defrauding the poor (May 17).

Sara Mahmud has another collection of Islamic inspirational thoughts up (May 15).

Bin Gregory tells us about a style of Malaysian rap music called dikir barat (May 17).

Yasmine shares her thoughts about easy ways that Muslims can use their blogs for activism (May 16).

noBraiNnEr talks about young Muslims in Singapore (May 17).

Mistaken Identity's husband applied awhile ago for a job in Saudi Arabia, so she shares her personal reflections on the risks of moving to Saudi in the wake of the Riyadh bombings (May 14).

Daniyah (a new blogger and recent addition to the blogroll) shares a story from school to remind us not to make fun of people who are just learning to speak a new language (May 15).

DeOwl offers a strong defense of her choice to be religious as a Muslim (May 11).

Murtz shares a list of books that he's been meaning to read but has never gotten around to, and it's quite a diverse list (May 12).

Bushra Anwar debates a Hindu blogger about faith and religion (May 11). There's lots more action in the comments section and sister Bushra welcomes input from visitors.

There was a lunar eclipse this week and Arshe posts some information about Islamic teachings on eclipses (May 15).

Sammerz posts an article about the virtues of patience (May 10).

Jabir thinks about life when you're poor (May 17).

Shi'a Pundit has an interesting post about cognitive dissonance and priorities in attempting to abide by the commands of one's religion (May 14).

Hafsa Ahsan posts to her articles blog about why our prayers are not always answered (May 12).

Maliha shares an excerpt from The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (May 16).

Sufistic talks about mystics and mullahs in Islam (May 15; scroll down past a very long article about music).

Prof_sadin muses on the eternal question: why blog? (May 14)

Ubaid thinks about "the brave new nuclear world" (May 13).

Aziz Poonawalla looks at something called the Kalam Cosmological Argument (last entry of May 13).

Elham responds to a disaffected Muslim (May 14).


One topic that half of everybody is talking about is Matrix Reloaded. Most of the Muslim bloggers who went to see it thought it was pretty cool.