veiled4allah: Muslim voices 6/28 to 7/5

Abu Saleem (Abdullah) draws an interesting parallel between a children's story and the situation of the Arabs in the Middle East.

Auliya posts some reflections about Allah.

Aizuddin Danian opens a discussion about a blogger's liability under Malaysian law for comments posted to the blog. A U.S. court has recently held that a blogger cannot be held liable for comments made by others on the blog, only for his or her own words. Of course, this only applies to American bloggers and is not the law in Malaysia. Aizuddin follows up with a discussion of the U.S. ruling here.

Bin Gregory continues to provide translations of Malaysian nashids.

Daniyah discusses coverage of Lebanese-Australian rapists in the media.

Sharizal (a new addition to my blogroll) has started a project similar to my Quranic Journal blog, posting up information and resources about verses of the Quran. So far he has one ayah up; do check it out, inshallah.

Arshe posts about Muslim comedians.

Shabnegar shares his thoughts on the saying "the unexamined life is not worth living".

Sina (Linda) reflects on her first day teaching special needs children.

Shi'a Pundit is deeply pessimistic about Iraq's future.

Think Halal posts a list of "things I've learned in the last few years" about politics and the like.

Yaser posts an interesting excerpt from a book called "The Search for Beauty in Islam".

Chocoholic has a lengthly post that discusses a car accident she was in (al-hamdulillah, no one was hurt), a discussion of creation and evolution, and why vanilla and vanillin are not halal ingredients in food.

Hafsa Ahsan posts to her articles blog about errors in salat that should be avoided (no permalinks; posts are on July 5).

Sufistic posts about striving (mujahadah) in Islam.

alt.muslim posts some information about the paintball terrorist suspects.

Muslim Wake Up and I seem to think alike: we both posted the Frederick Douglass speech for Independence Day, lol!

Thebit posts his thoughts about the difference between secularism (an ideology) and a secular government.

Idlan (formerly Prof_sadin) posts about Dossiergate in the UK.

Ikram Saeed talks about immigrants adopting both the good and the bad in the histories of the countries they move to.

Zack Ajmal posts about the debate in Pakistan over whether to begin diplmoatic recognition of Israel.

Umar posts an article "Political Islam May Be the Answer".

Aziz Poonawalla posts about how having a baby daughter has shaped his thinking.