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Oman donates to the building of the new mosque in Quanzhou
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New Statesman - Muslims of Quanzhou
Several Chinese clans claim to be descended from the foreign traders, and a saying refers to the prominent beard and deep-set eyes of the Arabs: "Mr Su's beard and Mr Ding's eyes".
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Waterworld
Chittagongian dialect—a mixture of Portuguese, Arakanese, Burmese, Bengali, and so on. - Kaplan on Bangladesh, climate change, NGOs, Al Qaeda, By 2030, a 20cm rise could wipe out alot of chars.
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The Adventures of Amir Hamza - Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami - Book Review - New York Times
a cast of dragons, giants, jinns, simurgh, sorcerers, princesses and, if not flying carpets, then at least flying urns, the preferred mode of travel for the tale’s magicians.
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Uygur region to see nation's 1st cultural diversity reserve
"Xinjiang, the only place where experts say the world's four important ancient civilizations of China, India, Greece and Islam, met and melt." - Ed. new tone, new tactics? I don't remember this "melting pot" stuff.
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China’s southwest a safe haven for Myanmar’s Muslims
Rohingya refugees in Yunnan
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WHITE HATS, OIL CAKES, AND COMMON BLOOD:
The Hui in the Contemporary Chinese State by Jonathan Lippman
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The Spiders: an online comic
Great webcomic!
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Reconsideration - A Secret History - Carla Power - New York Times
"Here you’ve got a guy who’s coming from the tradition, who knows the stuff and who’s able to give us that level of detail which is missing in the self-proclaimed progressive Muslim writers" - Ed. Over 8,000 women hadith scholars in history.
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Prophetic Justice
Salih describes his father, a villager in Sudan, reciting a prayer to him over the phone. “May Allah guide you in whatever you do. May Allah protect you from evil. May Allah destroy your enemies.”He worries that NSA eavesdroppers could misinterpret hi
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the cell
Legan scribbled down the thought that a group of terrorists would be totally seduced by the American pop culture and not only want not to destroy it but to embrace it and become part of it–Wilding agreed that was the way in.
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Doug Gamble on Little Mosque on the Prairie on National Review Online
Proof positive American neocons are insane: "They don’t, however — at least so far — condemn 9/11, renounce global Muslim violence" IT'S A FUCKING SITCOM, YOU WHITE HOUSE JIZZMOPPER
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Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online - "Mosque"-see TV hits Canada
Radar has an episode guide. This sounds slightly promising "EPISODE 6: Yasir's overbearing mother visiting from Lebanon wants him to try something new—a second wife." Humina humina humina!
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Little Mosque on the Prairie
CBC's sitcom about a Muslim family's wacky hijinx in rural Saskatchewan. No, really. "Perfect Strangers" meets "Green Acres", says Radar. Damn, I was hoping for more "Kumars at No. 42" meet "South Park".
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GNXP: Why the Hui?
"In the 19th century the Hui rebelled against the Qing dynasty in the northwest and in Yunnan, and many were expelled and became the core of the Dungan people of Central Asia" - ed. are the Dungan really that distinct?
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Gene Expression: Way of the Hui
So it was with that in mind that I decided to read Dao of Muhammad, a cultural history of the eastern Hui literati during the 16th-18th centuries. Most of the book focuses on Islamic commentaries produced by eminently Chinese, but Muslim, scholars, collec
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CPAmedia.com: The Hui: China's most loyal Muslims
Why did the Ch'ing authorities treat the Hui rebels with such unparalleled harshness? The answer seems to be because they were Chinese-speaking, and as such traitors to the Chinese polity.
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The New York Review of Books: Islam in Europe
Buruma rightly emphasizes the cultural diversity of Muslim immigrants: Berbers from the Rif mountains are not quite like Moroccans from the lowlands; Turks have different patterns of adaptation from Somalians, let alone Pakistanis in Britain.
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Gamepolitics talks to Sonicjihad
I am Samir. I was born and raised in Holland. But my parents are from Moroccan origin. I'm 25 years old. I have a master degree in management, economics and law. I work for a hospital as a quality manager implementing the ISO quality certificate. My hobbi
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Faith's Comeback - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
Austria, where a recent projection estimated that Muslims would make up between 14 and 26 percent of the population by 2050, up from 4 percent today.
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