Posted in Books, Life, Prayer, tagged Converts, Hijab, Islam, Leila Ahmed, Muslims, Veil, Women, Yvonne Haddad on July 16, 2007 | 32 Comments »
I get a lot of emails from Americans - of various political backgrounds - with a lot to say about Islam. This happens usually after I write posts like, Making A Modern Muslim World, On Theocracy and Liberty and Is Islam Compatible with Democracy and frankly, I know what I’m getting myself into when I [...]
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Posted in Prayer, Technology on July 12, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I know that there are a lot of adhan (Islamic call to prayer) devices out there and many Muslims use the Windows application Athan by IslamicFinder. But I recently installed Ubuntu ME, the Muslim edition of Ubuntu, a popular Linux OS distribution and it works well with one exception, I can’t seem to to get [...]
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Let me tell you a little secret… I have been waiting nearly 6 minutes to make a post like this, after looking over a popular post that I wrote a while back entitled, How Do Muslims Pray? I was going to hold onto it since I published something earlier on Muslims and health-care reform. But [...]
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