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	<title>The Manrilla Blog &#124; Exploring Islam In America Through the Social Sciences</title>
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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[September 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Richard Burton]]></category>
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		<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 meet their expectations. And it is the latest article from [...]]]></description>
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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 and urgent dilemmas currently facing American Muslims.  It should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return On Investment</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/02/16/return-on-investment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/02/16/return-on-investment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manrilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been blogging now for several years. It has been an interesting endeavor that has has its high moments of reward as well as its times when it has seemed not only a waste of time, but in complete opposition to the benefit I thought it might once bring. I have experienced the latter [...]]]></description>
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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. Let me provide a bit of food for thought.
I am often [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muslim scholarship]]></category>
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		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Race Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam in America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religious Life In America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[black christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[religious institutions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[white america]]></category>
		<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 lives, public or private (I say private as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion and Secularism: A Conversation with Robert Bellah</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/20/religion-and-secularism-a-conversation-with-robert-bellah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/20/religion-and-secularism-a-conversation-with-robert-bellah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religious Life In America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Muslim sentiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Juergensmeyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion in the public sphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Bellah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secularism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sociology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[western philosophy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following are a series of Youtube videos which feature famed sociologist Robert Bellah in conversation with Mark Juergensmeyer, professor of global and international studies as well as sociology and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In it, professor Bellah provides an number of worthwhile insights on the topics of secularism, religion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Funds For Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/14/emergency-funds-for-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/14/emergency-funds-for-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manrilla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donate to Haiti]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Haitians are in desperate need for support after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked their island nation on Tuesday. An estimated 3 million people were affected by the quake, which was the worst in the region in 200 years. &#8220;More than 100,000 are dead,&#8221; the Haitian Consul General to the United Nations, Felix Augustin, estimated on Wednesday. [...]]]></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 precise, Bellah based his understanding on the theological leanings [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[American society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Back-to-Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackamerican muslims]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cruse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[formal heresy]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muslim theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim tradition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NAACP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orientalists]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>
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		<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 other social themes, yet it would a far leap indeed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crisis of the American Muslim Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/06/the-crisis-of-the-american-muslim-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2010/01/06/the-crisis-of-the-american-muslim-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harold Cruse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The following post is the first in a new post-series which will look at current conditions of Muslim thought, process, and social development in the American context, through the reading of a number of texts. The first of which is The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, by Harold Cruse. I believe Dr. Cruse’s work to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam &amp; The Problem of Black Suffering &#8211; A Lamppost Productions Lecture</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/29/islam-the-problem-of-black-suffering-a-lamppost-productions-lecture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/29/islam-the-problem-of-black-suffering-a-lamppost-productions-lecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam and the blackamerican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamppost Productions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sherman Jackson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manrilla.net/blog/?p=1762</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is information on an upcoming webinar/lecture by Dr. Sherman Jackson regarding his latest book, Islam &#38; The Problem of Black Suffering [amazon link]. It&#8217;s an excellent opportunity to engage Dr. Jackson and have him break down some of the intricate and complex arguments in his book. The webinar is put on by Lamppost [...]]]></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>
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		<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 because I believe American Muslims are in a unique place [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Caldwell]]></category>
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		<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 Ramadan’s What I Believe.  Essentially, Ruthven sees both authors, while [...]]]></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>
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		<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 focused at Blakcamerican Muslims and specifically the need for us [...]]]></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>
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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.
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		<title>The Quba Institute Fundraising Banquet 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/04/the-quba-institute-fundraising-banquet-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/04/the-quba-institute-fundraising-banquet-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, December the 5th, the Quba Institute will be presenting it’s 2nd-Annual ]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[abdullah ibn buhaina]]></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 whole who embraced Islam.
Art Blakey&#8217;s African Travels
 It is clear [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam In Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european muslims]]></category>
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		<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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		<title>To Be Or Not To Bop</title>
		<link>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/02/to-be-or-not-to-bop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manrilla.net/blog/2009/12/02/to-be-or-not-to-bop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from To Be or Not to Bop, Beboppers… The Cult [pp. 291-3]
 Number seven: that &#8220;beboppers&#8221; expressed a preference for religions other than Christianity may be considered only a half-truth, because most black musicians, including those from the bebop era, received their initial exposure and influence in music through the black church. And [...]]]></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>
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		<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 was done with Dr. Abdullah Ghandhistani, author of Standard English [...]]]></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>
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		<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 in their similarities, but in how their scope goes beyond [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>
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		<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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
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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 of the above can easily be applied metaphorically to our condition [...]]]></description>
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