Islamic Blog, Muslims Blog, or…

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Public Islam, Some personal considerations.

The traceless warrior is quite awake and has noticed that I categorized him as an Islamic Blog.

The Traceless Warrior: Bloggingsphere Update
Well this is not an “Islamic Blog”. While I am a Muslim, I consider a lot of what some people try to pass off as “Islamic” blogs or websites to actually be examples of obsessive-compulsive mono-maniacal religious ideation. It has been my experience that focusing on any one aspect of one’s life to the exclusion of all others produces dangerously unbalanced individuals.

He is right of course.
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Islam In The West: The Threat Of Internal Extremism

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Internal Debates, Islam in the Netherlands, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Research International, Young Muslims.

alt.muslim – your muslim news community
Islam In The West: The Threat Of Internal Extremism
By Muqtedar Khan and John L. Esposito, February 17, 2005

The world has never been more interdependent, and the plight of Western Muslims is illustrative of how global integration is now a palpable reality. The murder of a Dutch film producer, Theo Van Gogh, allegedly by a disenchanted Dutch Muslim [Mohammed Bouyeri, 26], the denial of a visa to the US for a Swiss Muslim scholar, Tariq Ramadan, or the humiliating deportation of a British Muslim, Yusuf Islam, from the US immediately on arrival are all front page news all over the world. Not only do these episodes draw widespread attention from the media, they feed upon and fuel the new crisis in Western Civilization – “Islam in the West”.

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Trouw, religie & filosofie – Imamopleiding / Dingen om de gunsten van moslimorganisaties

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands.

Trouw, religie & filosofie – Imamopleiding / Dingen om de gunsten van moslimorganisaties
Er komt een ‘eigen’, door de moslimorganisaties opgezette islamitische theologiestudie, toegankelijk voor sjiïeten en soennieten, mannen én vrouwen.

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Trouw, religie & filosofie – Imamopleiding / Dingen om de gunsten van moslimorganisaties

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Islam in the Netherlands.

Trouw, religie & filosofie – Imamopleiding / Dingen om de gunsten van moslimorganisaties
Er komt een ‘eigen’, door de moslimorganisaties opgezette islamitische theologiestudie, toegankelijk voor sjiïeten en soennieten, mannen én vrouwen.

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Iranian Weblogs

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Articles on Iranian webloggers.

In a country where free speech has price, Iranian bloggers are having a bonanza – and the hardliners have begun to take notice.

Words are weapons for Iranian bloggers – (United Press International)

But not only the critics are using internet:

Blogging might not sound an appropriate hobby for a senior Iranian government official, particularly one who is a Muslim cleric.
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Mohammad Ali Abthai has turned the practice of writing Internet journals, or (we) blogging, into a powerful tool against the reformist government�s hardline foes and a means to reach out to the country�s disenchanted youth.


Khaleej Times Online: Iranian clerics blogs for free expression.

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