By elan on Everything Else from www.elanthemag.com
By elan on Everything Else from www.elanthemag.com
Mixed messages, plenty of innuendo and a secret conspiracy ending in a bloody coupe...and I’m not even close to talking about a Shakespearean play. Rather I’m talking about a street-style shakedown over at Islam Online (IOL), gangsta’ style, which has sent the most popular Islamic website in the world into a tailspin of uncertainty...a similar kind of treachery that left Julius Caesar lying in a bloody clump on the floor.
By MuslimMatters on Everything Else from muslimmatters.org
Four months have passed since the death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. But among his community, his legacy lives on. The soup kitchen he initiated continues to serve the homeless and hungry by the dozens on a weekly basis. Among his followers, there is an odd sense of acceptance. 
By MuslimMatters on Everything Else from muslimmatters.org
By elan on Everything Else from www.elanthemag.com
During one of the most polarized times in Washington DC, and with not even one Republican vote, President Obama was able to pass this week’s historic healthcare bill. Yet on the heels of his victory, we of course need a party pooper. Enter the Harris Poll, which sheds some light on why the Republican party may be apprehensive to support the current president.Read More 
By MuslimMatters on Everything Else from muslimmatters.org
Some quick brotherly advice from a guest writer. 
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I could have been sleeping at home in my comfortable bedroom with it's neat-and-clean attached bathroom, offering my Fajr on a plush Musallah... but no, going through all those experiences that night opened my eyes to an existence that was based on putting someone else before your own needs. In a sense, it was a physical enactment of suppressing the desires of the Nafs for the sake of pleasing Allah(swt). 
By MuslimMatters on Everything Else from muslimmatters.org
I was pretty much "hands-off" dad - diapers repelled me, and I would leave watching the kids to my wife. Since they didn't like leaving her side, it was all the more reason for me to say, "See, if I take them, they'll just cry, so you keep them." I'd let her feed the kids most of the time, and I would pretty much take them when it looked as though my wife were about to have a nervous breakdown. 
By MuslimMatters on Everything Else from muslimmatters.org
From forging a sense of community to providing an iman boost, the benefits of attending a weekly halaqah are many. Umm Ismail shares seven good reasons to get you out of your house on the path of knowledge. 
By elan on Everything Else from www.elanthemag.com
For a while I couldn’t tell how NBC’s Community felt about Muslims. Abed, the Muslim character on the show, is amiable and so sagaciously uncharismatic that he’s actually intriguing the same way space aliens and insects are. Usually Community stays away from controversial “Islamic” topics but last week’s episode was a cluster bomb of ignorance.Read More 
