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Your blog is enormously popular. It supports your entire family and is your main source of income. Is that weird? Sometimes, when I think about it. I'll go to a Bruce Springsteen concert and there will be 30,000 people in the audience and I'll think, multiply that by 50 and that's how many people are reading my website. It's very strange to conceptualize because I very rarely meet them in person. When I do it's humbling. (See the 25 best blogs...
...mosques echo larger debates taking place in the Islamic world today about gender, power and, particularly in immigrant communities, Islam's place in Western societies. Even the simplest design decision can reflect questions that are crucial to Islam and its adherents: Should women be allowed in a mosque's main hall or confined to separate quarters? Are minarets necessary in the West, where laws on noise levels mean they are rarely used for the call to prayer? What should a mosque attended by Muslims from different parts of the world look like? The boldest of the new mosques...
...people inside but also external investors. Are they understating the problem? I don't think so." He insists that "the difference between Dubai and Singapore or Shanghai is, in Dubai, when cranes leave site here, they leave when construction is finished." A trip down Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai's main thruway, named after the U.A.E.'s founder and first President, reveals thousands of cranes still operating and the first line of the city's metro on track to open this summer. (See pictures of Dubai...
...Bearing those caveats in mind, expect the London summit to concentrate on four main issues...
...dropped to fourth on the enemies list, he adds, after Iraqi security forces and all those who work in the government.) Low-level Sahwa members have been encouraged to return to the jihadis' fold. Indeed, in mid-March, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), al-Qaeda in Iraq's main front group, posted a communique on several jihadist websites announcing an amnesty for "every Muslim in Mesopotamia, even if he acted badly in the past," urging them to return to the insurgency. "This new stage is very serious," said the message, signed by alleged ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi...