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	<title>The Manrilla Blog &#124; Exploring Islam In America Through the Social Sciences &#187; Islam in America</title>
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	<description>Removing the incidental and the accidental from the quintessential conversation of Islam in America</description>
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		<title>Socially Irrelevant [?] &#8211; American Muslims &amp; Race</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/07/28/socially-irrelevant-american-muslims-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/07/28/socially-irrelevant-american-muslims-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Race Relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Todd Jealous]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crack cocaine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm X]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Schneider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial agnosia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reza Aslan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roland S. Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=2334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American Muslims must confront the myth that whiteness is omni-benevolent or risk becoming a marginalized, to be expelled at all costs.]]></description>
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		<title>Journey Into Islam &#8211; A Converts Tale Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/07/06/journey-into-islam-a-converts-tale-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/07/06/journey-into-islam-a-converts-tale-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Race Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1967 Race Riots]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackamericans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversion to Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[convert stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit Race Riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug-related violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fitra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[passing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reversion to Islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[white suburban America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white supremacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=2122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ One of the questions that is most often asked of me, both by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, is how did I come to Islam. Often this query is framed around a supposed single instance, a distinct and defining event that overwhelmed my being and thus...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Oh, If Only I Were Dust!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/06/24/oh-if-only-i-were-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/06/24/oh-if-only-i-were-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayan Hirsi Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tavis Smiley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tavis Smiley Show]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=2075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[إناأنذرنكم عذابا قريبا يوم ينظر المرء ما قدمت يداه ويقول الكافر يليتنى كنت تربا We have warned you of an imminent punishment on the Day when a man will see what he has done, and the kafir will say, &#8220;Oh, if only I were dust!&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Philadelphia Muslims &#8211; Where Are You?</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/06/22/philadelphia-muslims-where-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/06/22/philadelphia-muslims-where-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Life In America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interfaith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam in philadelphia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Heritage Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Nutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miss Undastood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[More Perfect Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NewCORE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philadelphia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Mayor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Muslims]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=2058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a Michigan native, I still look at Philadelphia with an outsider&#8217;s eye, even after five years of living here. The impact upon me of how many Muslims there are here in this city still rings with a newness for me. Last weekend, I happened...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nafs Ammārah</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/04/10/nafs-ammarah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/04/10/nafs-ammarah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts/Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dhikr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eight O'clock in the Morning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Carpenter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nafs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nafs ammarah]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prophet Yusuf]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ray Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Connor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terminator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terminator 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[They Live]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1980</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Muslim living in a non-Muslim country, I am always on the lookout for things in popular culture from which I might derive a reminder [dhikr ذكر] of Islam, of Reality, and perhaps of the Life To Come. I have found this to be...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Muslims, Race and Racial Agnosia in America</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/03/24/muslims-race-and-racial-agnosia-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/03/24/muslims-race-and-racial-agnosia-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Race Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agnosia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion in the public sphere]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The above is the title of a lecture Dr. Sherman Jackson gave at USC on January 21st, 2010. I highly recommend watching it at least once. Hat tip to Khalifa on this one.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Wakeup Call – This Time For Maureen Dowd</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/03/19/a-wakeup-call-%e2%80%93-this-time-for-maureen-dowd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/03/19/a-wakeup-call-%e2%80%93-this-time-for-maureen-dowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[amateur barbarian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arabian Nights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barnett Slepian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Charles Kopp]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[white western women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written two articles [1 and 2] on the phenomenon of Muslim pundits. To be more precise, the articles were about Muslim Muslim pundits, those few self-elected personalities that have made careers out of irresponsible critiques against Muslims and Islam, especially when Muslim do not...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Wakeup Call</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/03/14/a-wakeup-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/03/14/a-wakeup-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslim community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anwar Muhaimin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colleen Renee Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibn Khaldun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impact of print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Paulin-Ramirez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jihad Jane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legitimacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Asian Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modernity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muqaddimah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim scholarship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim tradition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qur’ān]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharif Mobley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traditional islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[validation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Chittick]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last several weeks’ events have showcased the utter dismay, confusion, and chaos that the American Muslim community is operating under.  The recent affairs regarding Colleen Renee Rose, also known as Jihad Jane, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, and Sharif Mobley, present for us a number of disturbing...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scourge of Secular Capitalist Islam &#8211; A Response</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/02/15/scourge-of-secular-capitalist-islam-a-response/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/02/15/scourge-of-secular-capitalist-islam-a-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslim project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims studying abroad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secular Capitalist Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shams an-Nasim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharif Mobley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suburban Capitalist Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brother Naeem wrote a passionate post over at his blog. As my comments were too long, I decided to write them here. as-Salaamu ‘alaykum, Naeem. I can see that you are indeed struggling to reconcile some issues that are very near and dear to you....]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>55</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Trouble With Muslim Pundits Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/02/14/the-trouble-with-muslim-pundits-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/02/14/the-trouble-with-muslim-pundits-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ali Eteraz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irshad Manji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic reformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim pundits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim reformers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim scholars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim scholarship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reforming Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valentine's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wael Hallaq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Back in May of 2008, I wrote a post for this blog entitled, The TroubleWith Muslim Pundits Today, in which I, using Irshad Manji as an example, attacked and exposed the self-serving and selfish tendencies of many a Muslim pundit who would seek to “reform”...]]></description>
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		<title>If You&#8217;re Not Part of the Solution, You&#8217;re Part of the Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/02/13/if-youre-not-part-of-the-solution-youre-part-of-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/02/13/if-youre-not-part-of-the-solution-youre-part-of-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Christianity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[white supremacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been, in my mind, a growing trend in Black America for the last 40-odd years: the rise in secularism amongst Blackamericans. By this I refer to the increasing tendency for Blackamericans to make religion, be it Islam or Christianity, irrelevant to their daily...]]></description>
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		<title>American Muslims and American Civic Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/12/american-muslims-and-american-civic-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/12/american-muslims-and-american-civic-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslim culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackamericans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil religionist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Founding Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyphenated-American experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judeo-Christian nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judeo-Christian-Muslim nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Gorski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puritans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[republicanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Bellah]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Civil Religion as defined by Robert Bellah: a set of rituals, symbols and beliefs which were institutionally separate, but partly derived, nevertheless, from organized religion. According to Bellah, American civil religion had two main origins: one religious in nature, the other secular. To be more...]]></description>
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		<title>The Crisis of the American Muslim Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/10/the-crisis-of-the-american-muslim-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/10/the-crisis-of-the-american-muslim-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Back-to-Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackamerican Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackamericans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cruse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fifteenth Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[formal heresy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fouteenth Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great American Ideal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Cruse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[individual and society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin R. Delany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[material heresy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim tradition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim-Muslim relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orientalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orthodoxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sixties]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1820</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Navigating American Individualism As was stated earlier, Cruse brings to light for us one of the primary underlining social tenants of Americanism, that is to say, individualism. Islam as a religion certainly engages the individual on his or her place in the cosmos as well as...]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Our Rightful Place of Leadership In the Muslim World</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/13/taking-our-rightful-place-of-leadership-in-the-muslim-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/13/taking-our-rightful-place-of-leadership-in-the-muslim-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American domestic policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ebrahim Moosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vartan Gregorian]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last several years, I have had conversations with a number of leading Muslim scholars—American and foreign—who recognize and advocate the ascension of American Muslims to the role of leadership in the Muslim world. I concur with this observation, not out of heedless pride or nationalism, but...]]></description>
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		<title>Does America Have A Muslim Problem?</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/10/does-america-have-a-muslim-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/10/does-america-have-a-muslim-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam In Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Caldwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawrinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double-talk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doublespeak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doublespeech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Muslim men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Muslim women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malise Ruthven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minbar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pascal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulpit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tariq ramadan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New York Review of Books]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article featured in The New York Review of Books, Malise Ruthven postulates on the phenomenon of Islam in Europe.  He interrogates the question by examining Christopher Caldwell’s Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, in tandem with Tariq...]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic Education &#8211; Not Just For Muslims Anymore [?]</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/07/islamic-education-not-just-for-muslims-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/07/islamic-education-not-just-for-muslims-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American textbooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackamerican Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muslim education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quba institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shi'a]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shi'ah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sufi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sufism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sunni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[textbooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weekly standard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I greatly enjoyed Dr. Sherman Jackson&#8217;s keynote address at the 2009 fundraiser for the Quba Institute. In it, he touched on some key, if not entirely new, points about the nature of education as it relates to Muslims. To a greater extent, his talk was...]]></description>
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		<title>Interview With Dr. Abdullah Ghandhistani Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/06/interview-with-dr-abdullah-ghandhistani-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/06/interview-with-dr-abdullah-ghandhistani-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslim Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghandhistani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the second half of the interview with Dr. Abdullah Ghandhistani, author of Standard English Grammar and Composition. The first part of the interview can be heard here. Enjoy.]]></description>
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		<title>More Thoughts On the Relation Between Islam, Blackamericans, and Bebop</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/03/more-thoughts-on-the-relation-between-islamblackamericans-and-bebop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/03/more-thoughts-on-the-relation-between-islamblackamericans-and-bebop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah Ibn Buhaina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African-American culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ahmadiyyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[akan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Blakey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bebop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlie parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clouzet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delorme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dizzy Gillespie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drumming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DuBois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ewe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fletcher henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ingrid tolia monson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jazz messengers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kahlil ahmed nasir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mary lou williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[musa kaleem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pan-africanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pan-asianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul robeson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prophet muhammad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sahib shihab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thelonious monk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W. E. B. Du Bois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[west africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoruba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following is s short excerpt from The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective [335-7], by Ingrid Tolia Monson. Monson&#8217;s book provides some further insight on the nature of the relation and attraction that Islam held for Blackamerican jazz musicians as well as Blackamericans as a...]]></description>
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		<title>It Wasn’t Meant To Go This Way</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/02/it-wasn%e2%80%99t-meant-to-go-this-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/02/it-wasn%e2%80%99t-meant-to-go-this-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture/Race Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam In Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european populists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam in switzerland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minarets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swiss muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[switzerland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tariq ramadan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xenophobia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The above seven words say so much about the state of Islam in the world today. More immediately, they describe a despondent viewpoint of Muslims in Switzerland, who, after having high hopes that the Swiss would embrace them as one of their own, had that...]]></description>
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		<title>Interview With Dr. Abdullah Ghandhistani Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/30/interview-with-dr-abdullah-ghandhistani-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/30/interview-with-dr-abdullah-ghandhistani-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslim Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghandhistani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I started the American Muslim Experience Project: Community Profile. My hope and goals was to photograph and interview some individuals of the Muslim community here. It&#8217;s a bit of an experiment and the audio takes are raw and mostly unedited. This interview...]]></description>
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		<title>Health Consciousness and Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/27/health-consciousness-and-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/27/health-consciousness-and-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hillel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interfaith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kosher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rabbi joel nickerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upenn msa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 15, I participated in a locally-held, national event co-sponsored by Jewish and Muslim student groups called Health Consciousness and Religion [https://www.ffeu.org/index.htm]. The event, held at Hillel on UPenn&#8217;s campus, was a talk about Kosher and Halal, and looking at both systems not just...]]></description>
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		<title>If There Was Ever A Good Time&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/23/if-there-was-ever-a-good-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/23/if-there-was-ever-a-good-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fort hood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hasan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holy war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incubation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mahmood mamdani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[major hasan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mamdani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philadelphia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Incubation [in-kyuh-bey-shuh n]. The act of incubating: To sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching; to maintain at a favorable temperature and in other conditions promoting development, as cultures of bacteria or prematurely born infants; to develop or produce as if by hatching. All...]]></description>
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