Umm Yasmin b. posted an article on Dervish - Oct 10, 2010, 7:45 pm
Anti-Semitism directed towards Muslims today, has many parallels with anti-Semitism directed towards Jews. One example is the 'lie' libel. This is the myth that Islam teaches Muslims are allowed to 'lie' with impunity. It's exactly the same type of anti-Jewish libel that claims Jews "may lie to, s...
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Umm Yasmin b. posted an article on Dervish - Oct 9, 2010, 10:49 pm
Looking at the BBC’s breakdown of Nobel prize winners titled “Which country has the best brains” it is immediately clear how demographically skewed the award is. The statistic that really stood out for me was demonstrated by this pie-chart. That’s 1 woman to nearly 19 men, and none this year...
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Umm Yasmin b. posted an article on Dervish - Oct 9, 2010, 9:53 am
One of the topics I have been thinking and writing on for my thesis is how Muslims differently approach the question of interpretative authority. In other words, Muslims take different approaches in understanding Islam, and as I see it, there are four basic orientations: Traditionalist; Secularist;...
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Umm Yasmin b. posted an article on Dervish - Oct 8, 2010, 12:19 pm
With millions of tweeps (people who use Twitter) to follow, and FF becoming annoying (why, oh, why would you tweet half-a dozen tweets with chock-a-block #FF recommends? I can just look at your following list if I want to) writing a compelling Twitter bio in order to entice people to follow you has ...
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Umm Yasmin b. posted an article on Dervish - Oct 7, 2010, 12:58 am
We’ve named our rubbish bin “Fred”. He’s so charismatic, he deserves a name. For many years, our rubbish bin was a plastic bag hanging off the door-handle of the laundry cupboard—a holding place for the eventual trip to the outside rubbish bin before being taken away Tuesday mornings by th...
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Umm Yasmin b. posted an article on Dervish - Oct 7, 2010, 12:57 am
One of the fun things about starting up the blog again, is finding new blogs that have emerged in the nearly two years I’ve been away (shout-out to Pop Muslim, Outlines and Nicole Cunningham for starters). Looking through my old blogrolls, it also means that quite a few of the old favourites ha...
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Umm Yasmin b. posted an article on Dervish - Oct 7, 2010, 12:55 am
Yet another instance of non-Muslims not doing something being interpreted as a victory for Islamofacism (or some such pejorative label intended to invoke a fear of Islam and Muslims), a variety of blogs are reporting that some newspapers in the United States have declined to run a rather mild W...
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Umm Yasmin b. posted an article on Dervish - Oct 7, 2010, 12:52 am
After a year and a half or so of not blogging at Dervish I’m back. I think. Well I’m back for now. You’ll notice there’s no archives. This is because I’m not sure how much of the old blog I want to bring back in. I might bring across the most well-written, brilliant and illuminating
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