on the blogs I read
Climbing Walls - an American Muslimah living in Palestine, her whole blog is chock full of posts on Palestine. More recent posts include 1000 Year Mosques destroyed in wake of the Nakba and Al Jazera reports on Palestinians. *added 9:36 am* Her blog about Palestine day post is up - Judaizing East Jerusalem
Southern Muslimah blogs about her Mother-in-Law’s experience in the nakba
The Muslimah links to a post her husband wrote about his grandmother and her ceaseless dhikr
*added at noon* Writeous Sister writes about Genocide by any other name in Palestine and of Native Americans
*added at 12:30* A Mother in Gaza writes about the cyber terrorism attack against Palestinian bloggers. The rest of her blog is a good read for today as well.
More to be added as I continue my daily blog stroll inshaAllah
*added at 9:36 am*
Personal accounts always tug at my heart strings the most. I can still remember the exact moment of my awakening to the situation in Palestine. Hanan Ashwari came to speak at my university. During the Q&A period, an old man got up, on the brink of tears. He spoke about wanting to to to his childhood home, currently located in Israel, to be buried with his family. He hadn’t been back since he was expelled decades earlier. And he wouldn’t be allowed to go back to die. I get a lump in my throat just remembering it now.
4 responses so far ↓
alajnabiya // May 15, 2008 at 9:09 am
Thanks for the link! That wasn’t my official “Blog about Palestine day” post though.
Umm Layth // May 15, 2008 at 11:06 am
as salamu ‘alaykum
Thank you for linking ukhti. I look forward to the updates. : )
UmmFarouq // May 17, 2008 at 1:18 am
Thanks for the link and all of the others, which provided great reading.
Although my roots are in AL, I have MN connections–a sister in Stillwater, to be exact. I have yet to visit her here but she always brags about the Muslim community and open-mindedness up there where the Mississippi River begins. :)
If you ever make it to Minnesota, inshaAllah I’ll take you to a jummah that serves soul food afterwards :)
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