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	<title>The Manrilla Blog &#124; Exploring Islam In America Through the Social Sciences &#187; Islam</title>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muslim scholarship]]></category>
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		<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” Islam without actually contributing anything to it, let alone [...]]]></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 hope dashed on the rocks in a vote of 57% [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Eid Mubarrak</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/27/eid-mubarrak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/27/eid-mubarrak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eid al-adha]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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		<title>African American Muslims and Their Social Purgatory</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/26/african-american-muslims-and-their-social-purgatory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/26/african-american-muslims-and-their-social-purgatory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Race Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african-american]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black american muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black suffering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blackamericans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carter g wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elijah muhammad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imam w.d. mohammed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kyle isma'il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[musli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muslim identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muslim non-muslim relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-muslim families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social purgatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[w.d. mohammed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wali akram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to Khalifa for passing this on. And while we may be occupied with more-than-earthly matters today, perhaps we can take a look at this over the next couple of days and reflect upon it. I have a few thoughts of my own I will share on it shortly.
&#8220;When you control a man&#8217;s thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Survival Manual</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/14/thanksgiving-survival-manual/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/11/14/thanksgiving-survival-manual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al-ghazzali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manual]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[non-muslim family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-muslim holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thanksgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turkey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being Muslim in a non-Muslim environment can present a number of challenges. From time to time, we are called upon to negotiate a space in which we are not the defining power. This happens with great frequency here in America, a non-Muslim majority environment. So when it comes to the holidays, many Muslims feel torn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Our Moral Compass</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/10/25/finding-our-moral-compass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/10/25/finding-our-moral-compass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah bin Hamid Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al-ghazzali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Murshid Al-Mu’in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[certitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ihsan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maqamat al-yaqin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tassawuf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tazkiyyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[‘Abd al-Wahid b. ‘Ashir]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding Our Moral Compass is a two-part lecture regarding the fundamental principles of Islamic spirituality (tasawwuf) and a discussion of the stations of certitude (maqamat al-yaqin) based on the work of ‘Abd al-Wahid b. ‘Ashir, Al-Murshid Al-Mu’in, with additional insights taken from Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali’s, Garden of the Seekers and Reliance of the Travelers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life From the Minbar</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/10/17/life-from-the-minbar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/10/17/life-from-the-minbar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arguing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[khatib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[khutbah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minbar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is slowly closing in on a year since I&#8217;ve taken to the minbar. The experience has been a humbling one in many ways. Frustrating in others. For those who have never done so, it is hard to know the pressure and responsibility one ensues when stepping up in front of your fellow brothers and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Islamic Literacy Series &#8211; Fall 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/10/09/the-islamic-literacy-series-fall-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/10/09/the-islamic-literacy-series-fall-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adnan zulfiqar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carolyn baugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic literacy series]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[margari hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muslim education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sadik kassim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university of pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upenn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic Literacy Series is a new program at the University of Pennsylvania aimed at increasing the level of understanding among Muslims about their own faith. Each week, a 50 minute class will be held on a different topic pertaining to Islam. A faculty of 5 instructors will introduce, explore and examine the richness and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Participation and Maintenance in Cultural Belonging and Development</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/08/03/participation-and-maintenance-in-cultural-belonging-and-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/08/03/participation-and-maintenance-in-cultural-belonging-and-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cultural participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signifying]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For our consideration:
&#8220;A third possibility is that we can value a culture because we have participated in its maintenance or development. Here we value it because its reproduction is a product of our efforts. So, for example, by participating in black rhetorical repartee &#8211; what Gates calls the vernacular art of signifyin&#8217; - one contributes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do We Want?</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/08/02/what-do-we-want/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/08/02/what-do-we-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American citizens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black american muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackamerican muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W. E. B. Du Bois]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What do we want? What is the thing we are after? As it was phrased last night it had a certain truth: We want to be Americans, full-fledged Americans, with all the rights of other American citizens. But is that all? Do we want simply to be Americans? Once in a while through all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam &amp; The Problem of Black Suffering &#8211; A Tidbit</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/07/31/islam-the-problem-of-black-suffering-a-tidbit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/07/31/islam-the-problem-of-black-suffering-a-tidbit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[black suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackamerican muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackamericans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;the rise of Islam among Blackamericans was rooted in the agenda and sensibilities of &#8220;Black Religion&#8221; &#8211; essentially, a folk-oriented, holy protest against antiblack racism &#8211; the future was intimately tied to Blackamerican Muslims&#8217; ability to access and deploy the intellectual legacy of the classical Sunni Tradition, both as a means of domesticating Black Religion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Muslims in America</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/07/09/the-evolution-of-muslims-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/07/09/the-evolution-of-muslims-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With yet another PBS documentary under its belt, American Islam would seem to be on the up and up. There are a number of hip-hop artists affiliated with Islam to lesser and greater degrees, thus, many see this as the “coming of age” of Islam in America. Seen as giving the American Muslim youth something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sinister Secret of Secularism</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/05/15/the-sinister-secret-of-secularism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/05/15/the-sinister-secret-of-secularism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 21:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most bemusing, humoring, and concerning tendencies amongst many Muslims, especially in the West, is the tendency towards a form of secret secularism.  To proceed, I will need to define what I mean by “secret” and “secular”.  For the former, I am referring to the biggest secrets we all harbor – those that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Blind Date With The Federal Bureau of Investigations</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/03/12/my-blind-date-with-the-federal-bureau-of-investigations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/03/12/my-blind-date-with-the-federal-bureau-of-investigations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aclu]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philadelphia police]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a tumultuous world were fantastic events can impact the daily realities of ordinary citizens. Events unfold before our eyes that can forever tarnish our sense of perception if we&#8217;re not careful. These are the words that come to mind as I had my interview with the FBI this afternoon. From their side, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bebop, Islam and the Promise of a Dignified Existence in Jim Crow America</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/02/28/bebop-islam-and-the-promise-of-a-dignified-existence-in-jim-crow-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/02/28/bebop-islam-and-the-promise-of-a-dignified-existence-in-jim-crow-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a short paper that I wrote on the relation between Islam and Blackness and the draw between the two back in the early part of the 20th Century. I hope to have the time to post a few more ruminations, but at the moment, enjoy this small piece. 
Much like the 1940’s, modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where To Turn To When Returning To Spirituality</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/01/10/where-to-turn-to-when-returning-to-spirituality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/01/10/where-to-turn-to-when-returning-to-spirituality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a great increase in interest in spirituality from the Muslim community over the last several years. Published manuscripts of this or that teacher, new translations of Ibn &#8216;Arabi&#8217;scosmology as well as lesser known, more esoteric authors have hit the shelves of book stores in waves. The Muslim readership in the English-speaking world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Rouge</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/12/10/applying-rouge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/12/10/applying-rouge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is good to carry some powdered rouge in one&#8217;s sleeve. It may happen that when one is sobering up or waking from sleep, his complexion may be poor. At such time it is good to take out and apply some powdered rouge.&#8221; &#8211; Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The challenge of modernity is not met necessarily in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 44th President of the United States Is A Blackamerican</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/11/05/the-44th-president-of-the-united-states-is-a-blackamerican/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/11/05/the-44th-president-of-the-united-states-is-a-blackamerican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[47th &#38; Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia &#8211; Obama celebration
Recently, as perhaps some of you have seen, I have been shifting the focus on this blog &#8211; refining its focus to concentrate more specifically on the religious phenomenon of Islam in America. A great deal of my writings pertain to the process of the indiginization of Islam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanitarianism, Activism, Media, Religion: A Public Panel and Media Project</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/10/17/humanitarianism-activism-media-religion-a-public-panel-and-media-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/10/17/humanitarianism-activism-media-religion-a-public-panel-and-media-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The SSRC (Social Science Research Council), in conjunction with the Center for Study of Democracy, is going to be holding a panel discussion on the distinctions and similarities between religious and secular medias. Panelists will include Birgit Meyer (VU University Amsterdam), Charles Hirschkind (University of California, Berkeley) and Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina). In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lecturing At William Penn Charter School</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/10/09/lecturing-at-william-penn-charter-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/10/09/lecturing-at-william-penn-charter-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to Thomas and his class at the William Penn Charter School &#8211; an educational institution built on Quaker values, for inviting me out to speak on Islam again. I have spoken before at William Penn and am always impressed with Tom&#8217;s class. This term, Tom was teaching a class centered around the theme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam in Global Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/09/23/islam-in-global-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/09/23/islam-in-global-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of being invited to Dr. Zain Abdullah&#8217;s course, Islam in Global Perspective, at Temple University. The course was welcoming a selection of Fulbright scholars from abroad to discussed a number of issues such as what is Islam to Muslims, how do Muslims relate and form identities in a global cultural context [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imam W. D. Mohammed and The Third Resurrection by Dr. Sherman Jackson</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/09/16/imam-w-d-mohammed-and-the-third-resurrection-by-dr-sherman-jackson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/09/16/imam-w-d-mohammed-and-the-third-resurrection-by-dr-sherman-jackson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aminah mccloud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=700</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is my pleasure to present a most erudite article regarding not only the passing of Imam WD Mohammed [may Allah grant him Paradise] but a clarion call to the entire America Muslim community as to the milestone we&#8217;ve reached and where we ought to be heading. Enjoy.
Imam W. D.  Mohammed and The Third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking For African American Muslim Women To Participate In Research</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/09/10/looking-for-african-american-muslim-women-to-participate-in-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/09/10/looking-for-african-american-muslim-women-to-participate-in-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is to invite African American women to participate in a unique academic study by a very good friend of mine, Sister Hanifa Najjiyya. I grew up Islamically in her house and have been best friends with her eldest son for many years. I am happy to announce the research project she is working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Presumption of Privilege</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/08/21/the-presumption-of-privilege/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/08/21/the-presumption-of-privilege/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Islam continues to sputter along in its American context, post-9/11, various Muslim organizations and groups seek to capture the eye of the masses [who are starting to look more and more like glazed donuts by the minute] by inviting them to &#8220;return to Tradition&#8221;. I have not noted the capitalized &#8220;T&#8221; without purpose. Tradition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town Square Meeting &#8211; GreenFaith</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/05/16/town-square-meeting-%e2%80%93-greenfaith/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2008/05/16/town-square-meeting-%e2%80%93-greenfaith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ I was honored last night to be asked to attend the Town Square Meeting at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Center City Philadelphia. The meeting was presented by Philadelphia Green and was about the merging of faith-based organizations and the stewardship of those religious groups and how they are or can be engaged [...]]]></description>
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