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City of Brass: principled pragmatism at the maghrib of one age, the fajr of another
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azizhp's Profile
Aziz Poonawalla authors the City of Brass blog at Beliefnet and the geekblog, Haibane.info
Real Name: Aziz Poonawalla
DOB: 2/14
Gender: Male
Location: California, USA
Groups: Muslims at Daily Kos, Howard Dean 2016, 50 State Strategy Project
Twitter: azizhp
Diaries published: 196 (1166 days since last diary on Mon Sep 28, 2020 at 01:14 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 865 (1166 days since last comment on Mon Sep 28, 2020 at 01:16 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 1543
Total Comment Ratings: 1498
Most Recommended Diary: I am a muslim, 486 comments, 497 recommends
People Following azizhp: 26
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Salaam all, A few months ago I setup an account on twitter and grabbed the muslims4joe domain because I thought that we would need to eventually make a case to the Muslim American community to get behind Joe, since most of the community was still...
by azizhp
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on Mon Sep 28, 2020 at 01:14 PM PDT
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Ever since 9-11, and well before it, this is the litany of accusation that ordinary Muslim Americans have had to endure:
* Muslims do not condemn – there is no million Muslim march against ...
by azizhp
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on Fri Oct 02, 2015 at 12:27 PM PDT
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This past week, there were two Iftars in Washington DC, one by the State Department and the other at the White House. I was honored to be invited to the former but was unable to attend. What ...
by azizhp
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on Sat Jul 27, 2013 at 06:51 AM PDT
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(Disclosure: I am the Editor of MuslimsForObama.com )
As a supporter of Barack Obama, I have laid out my own personal reasons for supporting Barack Obama . But some Muslim Americans are not ...
by azizhp
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on Mon Nov 05, 2012 at 06:26 AM PST
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Last week, I met Paul Ryan at an apple farm.
My conversation with him was pretty brief:
I was wearing my traditional topi headcap and I have a fair amount of beard on me, so it was rather obvious ...
by azizhp
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on Mon Oct 15, 2012 at 08:20 AM PDT
with 22 Recommends
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It's that time of year again - to nominate your favorite blogs and bloggers for the Brass Crescent Awards! The nomination phase will end shortly after Eid al-Fitr, and polls will be open shortly ...
by azizhp
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on Thu Jul 26, 2012 at 04:17 AM PDT
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- I know this isn't going to affect anyone's lives here. It's none of your concern, you have enough problems to deal with. But my sister's grandchild, the "apple of her eye", just died. She was ten.323 comments 753 Recs
- Reading a recommended “post” yesterday put me into a funk. The diary itself wasn’t bad (and the diarist is an obviously thoughtful person who meant no bigotry and is obviously not a bigot and ...44 comments 45 Recs
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- Or attempts to anyway. Dearborn filed an injunction against the idiotic minister from Florida, asking Jones to pay over 40,000 dollars in security fees or be banned from protesting in front of a ...46 comments 7 Recs
- It actually pains me to write this diary. The books of Orson Scott Card were an important part of my childhood and youth. I've considered some of his books to be masterpieces. Ender's Game, Speaker ...599 comments 287 Recs
- This diary was originally published at Street Prophets , and was written in response to another diary. Karmakin, on the About "magic underwear" diary, wrote : A good example is our cultural use of "23 comments 30 Recs
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