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This 'n' that

This post was a collection of several commentaries on news stories and blog posts. These posts are being rearranged. The comments have been left intact. Click on what you're looking for below:

• Frighteningly fascinating: A four part series at Chapati Mystery on religion in the USA. Sepoy's guest blogger provides a discussion on the state of religion in the USofA.
• Avaristically audacious: Haroon Moghul's short and brief critique of racism. In the form of a story.
• Disingenious disquisition: My response to an article that appeared in The Economist at the end of 2004.

A verse

On the way home, I caught this verse (11) from Surah al-Taghabun (64) which has stuck in my mind:

No calamity befalleth save by Allah's leave. And whosoever believeth in Allah, He guideth his heart. And Allah is Knower of all things.