Wajahat Ali: My awkward moments in Muslim prayer

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/02/23/awkward_moments_muslim_prayer/index.html

The Moth: Imam Khalid Latif

Robert Fisk with the first dispatch from Tripoli - a city in the shadow of death

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-with-the-first-dispatch-from-tripoli--a-city-in-the-shadow-of-death-2223977.html

Haroon Moghul: Dreaming Beyond the Madman: Reflections on the Revolution in Libya

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/4294/dreaming_beyond_the_madman:_reflections_on_the_revolution_in_libya__/

Turkey's election: A Muslim democracy in action

http://www.economist.com/node/18185813

via Irfana

What porn did to a marriage

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/22/what-porn-did-to-a-marriage/

NPR: Mubarak's Fall Spurs Calls To Rethink U.S. Policy

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/15/133763952/mubaraks-fall-spurs-calls-for-u-s-policy-rethink

Rashid Khalidi, director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, says those voices were muffled for many years by Mubarak's regime. He says the U.S. would listen to Egyptian officials instead of the people, but that will have to change given the scale of the demonstrations that ousted Mubarak.

"People have feelings about American policies — they have very strong feelings," he said. "I think we should take those views seriously. It doesn't mean American policy is going to be determined by Middle Eastern public opinion, but in so far as countries in that region are able to develop credible democracies, the United States is going to have no alternative but to at least respect those opinions, even if it doesn't necessarily agree with them. And this is a new factor."

Krugman: Wisconsin Power Play

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/opinion/21krugman.html

Also see:

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/21/133945476/wisconsin-governor-refuses-unions-compromise

Kristof: Watching Protesters Risk It All

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/opinion/21kristof.html

Kareem Salama - Makes Me Crazy (Official Music Video)

Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/books/21margin.html

Saying Goodbye to Harlem's Black Prince

ossie davis's eulogy for Malcolm X(the ending of the Malcolm X movie)

Jimmy Jones: Slaughter of innocents as self-defense?, retribution: Sept. 11 terrorism, Gaza warfare

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/01/10/opinion/jjones_faith_matters_18011011.txt?viewmode=fullstory

WSJ: Where Have The Good Men Gone?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704409004576146321725889448.html

"Mooz-lum" Movie Review by Brother Dash

http://brotherdash.com/?p=1128

Charles Blow: Empire at the End of Decadence

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/opinion/19blow.html

Frank Rich: The G.O.P.’s Post-Tucson Traumatic Stress Disorder

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/opinion/20rich.html

Democracy Now: “The Genie Is Out of the Bottle”: Assessing a Changing Arab World with Noam Chomsky and Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/17/the_genies_are_out_of_the