veiled4allah: Muslim voices 6/7 to 6/14

Bloggers a cut above the rest.

Learn more about art history with Sadia Salam.

Karen Hanson lists "things to do before I die".

Aizuddin Danian criticizes the Malaysian government's stance on Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar.

Burhan is looking back and looking forward (age 30 is a real good time for that; I know).

The Islamic Feminista journal reports on anti-Muslim anti-woman hate at a university.

The To Submit journal posts up an article about mosques.

Umair Salam talks about a book he's been reading about prayer.

And Umair posts up some daily prayers from the book at his articles blog.

Muslim Wake Up posts about interesting political murals in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Zack Ajmal has a number of excellent posts up as always, including one about arranged marriages and a quiz about what country in the Americas has the largest percentage of Muslims by population (answer here).

Umar tracks news of anti-American resistance in Aghanistan and Iraq. Seems we declared victory rather prematurely in both cases.


Blogger blogs. You know the drill.

Please welcome sister Annie, a new addition to the blogroll. She started blogging in early May.

Abez comments on love and marriage in "How I Own 1/7 of Riaz's Heart" (June 10, second entry).

Sara Mahmud continues her inspirations series (June 9).

Bin Gregory talks about the history of Malay families adopting Chinese children (June 10, second entry).

Rabs, who grew up in Saudi Arabia, critiques the institution of the "religious police" (June 9).

Congratulations to sister Lindsay, who is marking the one-year anniversary of her conversion to Islam (June 14). May she continue to grow spiritually and draw closer to Allah SWT.

Further along these lines, Sina (Linda) shares the story of a friend who converted to Islam (June 13).

Shi'a Pundit comments on attempts to ban both kosher (Jewish) and halal (Islamic) slaughter in the UK (June 13). As he says, "Muslims and Jews are cousins - in fact the greatest threat to our respective religions is not each other, but the concerns of the material world against which we must be united."

Sufistic posts about how a person can discover faults in his own soul so as to correct them (June 14).

Thebit has been posting up a series of articles about the Sunna and the hadiths in the view of the school of Islahi (a Pakistani scholar). Entries of June 9 and 11.

Prof_sadin muses about the news media and reality (June 13).

Ikram Saeed looks at an online correspondence between Daniel Pipes and Irfan Khawaja (June 11).

Aziz Poonawalla posts about collateral damage and intentions (June 13, fourth entry, below the one with all the strikethrough).