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The oral history project is equally remarkable for being the first of its kind. As much as the partition hangs over the politics and psyche of the Indian subcontinent, there is no memorial — digital or analog — to mark it. This homegrown, volunteer-run project, directed from a few cubbies at the University of California here, is one of the first efforts to collect those memories. Now, because most of the partition’s witnesses are gone — most subjects are in their 70s and 80s — the project has taken on new urgency. At least 20 of the 100 people Ms. Bhalla has interviewed have died, she said. And so, with help from donors, the archive plans to dispatch 20 story gatherers this year to several cities in South Asia to collect stories while their tellers are still alive.

Potent Memories From a Divided India - NYTimes.com

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20 Memes to Get You Through Ramadan This Year

The 20 memes will make you laugh so much you'll forget you're starving.

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That's one way to wish. Happy Ramadan to all those celebrating!

Image via @SanaSaeed

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So, since we've had nice little cartographical 'explanations' of what amorphous blobs of humanity believe (whether the Pew 'Muslims of the World' survey or the Swedish survey on how 'racially tolerant' people are by country), here's one colorful map I think we all can get behind. Even if facetiously ironic.

Map outline taken from mapnall.com.

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Just in case there's any confusion. Ever.

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Maybe we can finally get rid of that BBC stock image of 'veils of Muslim world'.

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Yup.

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#CreepingBeliebers of the World Unite! Teen Pop Star honors Muslim Call to Prayer Twice During Show in Istanbul

http://ca.eonline.com/news/414335/justin-bieber-stops-turkey-concert-twice-to-honor-muslim-prayer-call

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No. He has aided the advance of Islamic supremacism and Sharia all across North Africa. I don't know or care what his religion is. The problem him is his pro-Sharia foreign policy.

Pamela Gellar on Obama, in an interview with Vice, answering the following question: Don’t you think the Muslim world's hatred of Obama should quell fears that he may be a secret-Muslim?

Read it here if you want to cringe and never listen to The Cure the same way again.

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Call it the ”Take Your Social Issue to Work Day” in the Florida House. Sandwiched between more than 80 bills on the schedule, House lawmakers began work on a marathon slate of issues on the floor just after 11:30 a.m. – taking up legislation dealing with abortion, police drones, Sharia law and guns for the mentally ill Wednesday, as the chamber rushes to advance its normal slate of controversial social-policy bills late into the 60-day session.

Another day in Florida.

Read below.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2013/04/another-day-in-the-florida-house-abortion-guns-sharia-law-and-drone-bills.html

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Top Ten Ways Islamic Law forbids Terrorism

Juan Cole | Islam, Islamophobia

Here's Juan Cole being pretty cool and providing something for the TL;DR crowd. Worth a read.

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Mark Tapson, a writer for the conservative and anti-Islam FrontPage Magazine, detailed how his secret infiltration of the Muslim Student Association’s yearly West Coast conference did not yield the expected results. “It was largely very innocuous. I mean, there was nothing beyond what I’ve already told you, really. There was very little that you’d consider radical. Highly politicized, yes, but nothing damning,” Tapson said.

Anti-Islam writer “infiltrates” Muslim conference, finds it “innocuous” - Salon.com

Here's something you might have missed from last month - enjoy the giggle!

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At least three men attending an annual culture festival in Saudi Arabia were kicked out of the country after religious police officers deemed them "too handsome" to stay.

Men Deemed 'Too Handsome' Deported from Saudi Arabia for Fear They Would Be Irresistible to Women

Brown people problems. 

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Sometimes a mop sink is just a mop sink. Building managers and legislative staffers have sought to reassure some concerned Tennessee lawmakers that recent renovations at the state Capitol did not install special facilities for Muslims to wash their feet before praying. “I confirmed with the facility administrator for the State Capitol Complex that the floor-level sink installed in the men’s restroom outside the House Chamber is for housekeeping use,” Legislative Administration Director Connie Ridley wrote in an email. “It is, in layman’s terms, a mop sink.”

TN lawmakers confuse mop sink for Muslim foot-washing sink

http://www.tennessean.com/viewart/20130325/NEWS02/303250057/TN-lawmakers-confuse-mop-sink-Muslim-foot-washing-sink

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Interrupting our usual jolly humor to tell you that we're hiring!

Yes, we're hiring! See here or read below.

SENIOR EDITOR

Posted 1/30/13.

Do you think news media could do a better job covering Islam and Muslims? Are you interested in working with top legal scholars to help inform coverage?

islawmix, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, is seeking to fill the position of Senior Editor. The Senior Editor will conduct interviews with experts in Islamic law, write articles that help journalists, policy makers, and citizens understand the interplay of Islamic law and American law, and engage the community of thought leaders and journalists on social media.

The position is paid and part-time (10 hours/week); the work can be performed remotely.

The ideal candidate will be a strong, accessible writer and relish fast-paced intellectual engagement on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. His/her work will serve islawmix’s non-partisan, educational mission of adding context and nuance to news coverage of Islamic law.

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