Muslim voices 6/14 to 6/22

OK, I'm just a little bit late this week... A cut above the rest... Brother Bin Gregory has switched to MT. The new blog looks great! He also has some good posts up, including some notes about a controversy at an AIDS conference. Saima has a simple yet beautiful post reminding us to take the time and remember why it's good to be alive. Shabnegar (formerly SASAN) posts his thoughts about the situation in Iran. The To Submit community posts an excellent verse from the Quran about true piety. Umair Salam has a gorgeous picture of Masjid an-Nabi (the mosque of the Prophet) in Medina. Khushee looks back at her school friends. Muslim Wake Up takes a closer look at some of Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean's foreign policy views. This is one of the reasons Dean is not my first choice. Kucinich discusses his views in an interview here. Prof_sadin has also made the move to MT. Excellent!! She has a variety of new posts up on her latest doings but I wanted to highlight this one about leadership. Zack Ajmal posts a review of a book he's been reading about the civil rights era in the U.S., which is also a topic of much interest to me, as long-time readers of this blog might be aware. Umar has a huge post up about the terrible human rights situation in Uzbekistan and how the Bush administration is supporting the Karimov regime there. Blogger blogs. You know the drill. Please welcome brother Abu Saleem (Abdullah), who has just started blogging. Mashallah, he has some excellent posts up already, including one on learning about the attributes of God (June 21). Please do check it out, inshallah. Abez shares an amusing story of how she was nearly given a ticket for trying to park in a parking lot (June 17). Plus she shares a lovely hadith in that blog entry. Yasmine is inspired by her break from school to reflect on a variety of topics (June 18). Rabs looks at two articles about Muslim students and the prom, one she likes and the other she doesn't (June 17). WITCH shares a wonderful poem about the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) (June 19). Daniyah talks about Australia's poor policies towards refugees (June 21). Hafsa Ahsan shares some hadiths she found about du'a (personal prayer) (June 15). Arshe shares things a friend passed on to her from an Islamic class (June 19). Sammerz shares an article about Allah's love for His creation (June 18). Nadia tells about an Arab get-together she went to and how much she enjoyed learning about Arab culture (June 16). Suzzy shares an article about the angelic qualities of women in Islamic teaching (June 15). Ghazali has a provocative post about "the bad American" and "the bad Muslim" (June 22). It's not what you think. Hafsa Ahsan posts an article about etiquettes of handling the Quran to her articles blog (June 22). Sufistic shares an article about renouncing desires (June 20). Thebit posts more of a series of articles about the Sunna (June 18-21) and discusses a proposed UK ban on kosher and halal slaughter of animals (June 22). Elham shares some of her experiences as a school child in Libya (June 17).