Big Wins at the Brass Crescent Awards!

Voting's done and the results are out! The 7th Annual Brass Crescent awards have beenÂ announced and the winners are…

*duff roll*

Best Blog | Muslim Matters

Best Group Blog | Muslim Matters

Best Writer | Sadaf Farooqi*

It is a matter of great joy for us to have received both top Blog awards and also see one of our Staff Writers, Sadaf Farooqi, winning Best Writer. Alhumdulillah! All success and good is from Allah(swt)!

Jazaakumallahu khayran katheera for your valuable votes and for expressing your support for us in this manner. This win is a reason to celebrate, indeed, but it will also serve a greater purpose by continuing to inspire us and motivate us to take Muslim Matters forward.Â Exciting new things are in the works behind the scenes at MM, Insha'Allah, to improve and better represent you as the voice of Muslims on the web, so keep an eye out for them in the coming times!

* Sister Sadaf Farooqi won the award for Best Writer based on her personal blog. Her contributions to Muslim Matters, as a treasured Staff Writer, are equally loved and appreciated.

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We challenge ourselves and our readers to engage in discourses that touch our lives as citizens of the West, while maintaining our individual Islamic identities: Ultimately to cooperate, but not to compromise.

Faatimah

Masha Allaah TabaarakAllaah. That is indeed great news.

Congratulations. Mabrook :-)

May Allaah Keep on granting Muslim Matters success. May Allaah Reward all those who have been contrubuting to Muslim Matters.

http://homeschoolingmuslimahmommys.webs.com Holly Garza

Ameen

http://yahyaottawa.blogspot.com/ Yahya

Congratulations from a fellow blogger
http://strivingforihsaan.wordpress.com/ ‘Uthmaan

MashaAllah! Great news.

Btw is anyone else having problems with MM’s RSS feed? It doesn’t seem to be loading at all. It’s only for MM – all my other ones are loading fine.

http://muslimmatters.org/author/amad amad

The feed seems to be working:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MuslimMatters

make sure its pointing there.

Zahid Shakir

Brass crescent awards are a joke.

Who takes them seriously?

http://www.muslimmatters.org/author/Nihal Nihal

Thanks, keep us updated.
http://muslimmatters.org/author/Ameera-Khan/ Ameera Khan

We do. :) And so does the rest of the active blogging community. :)

http://homeschoolingmuslimahmommys.webs.com Holly Garza

=)

Umm Zakariyya

We do! Awards like this highlight to us who the Muslim bloggers are, what they are talking about and what issues we are facing globally. It brings to the fore who the new bloggers are.

We all win.
http://popislam.com MR

Any recommendations of other award sites focused on Muslims? Most Muslim bloggers are aware of it.

Zahid Shakir

Hey MR (salams)

I visited your “Pop Islam” site and lo and behold the first thing I see on your little website to cash in a few dollars is the following ad:

No ground zero mosquesays William Murray who is chairmanof the Religious Freedom Coalition
youtube.com/ChristianRefugees
Watch this video on http://www.youtube.com

Good job MR. Keep it up. Destroy us from within for a few pennies.

http://homeschoolingmuslimahmommys.webs.com Holly Garza

http://sunnahfollowers.net/ppt/other/Morality/morality-13/index.html

and

http://sunnahfollowers.net/ppt/other/Morality/morality-14/index.html

Yahya Ibrahim

I hate when people hate!

Mabrook to all for their hard work and input.

keep up the good work Sisters and brothers.

Yahya Ibrahim

http://muslimmatters.org/author/amad amad

jazakallahkhair Shaykh. You are part of “us”

http://www.IslamicAnswers.com/ Wael – IslamicAnswers.com

Ma-sha-Allah, congratulations, I voted for MM and you deserve it.

http://muslimmatters.org/author/amad amad

jazakallahkhair akhi… your vote, and more importantly your contributions here appreciated.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass Aziz Poonawalla

Salaams to all at MM –

mubarak on your well-deserved wins this year! Apologies for not commenting sooner, but my excuse is that I just returned from Hajj and thus have been distracted of late. :)

I’d say in response to detractors ofthe BCA that they serve a purpose in that they highlight the diversity of the Islamsphere. If you disagree with a given winner or nomination, the answer is to submit yoru own nominations and play an active role next year. MM used to be more skeptical of the BCA’s value in the past, until people from MM started nominating MM itself – and the result is that MM is now recognized for its value by a wider audience. I hope Amad can comment on whether there has been any increase in readership or not from the increased exposure of teh Awards.

At any rate, keep p the great work here and good luck next year! :)

regards
Aziz

http://muslimmatters.org/author/amad/ Amad

w/s Aziz. Congrats on your Hajj.
I was definitely more apprehensive about these awards, but I now see much more good in them overall than harm. It’s good to have some sort of recognitions considering the thousands of blogs around. Unfortunately, I don’t have stats on readership increases, but I am sure there is benefit for a well-established award system that is now years old.
Thanks all of you at BCA who put a lot of volunteer hours doing this.

hakim

Muslim Matters is responsible for my neglect of Uni work- i want compensation.

………and oh yeh congratulations.mashallah

http://muslimmatters.org/author/amad amad

Better us than some football or cricket game :)

http://muslimmatters.org Umm Reem

mabrook mashaAllah!

It like winning the best movie, best director and best actor awards :)
Zahid Shakir

Brass crescent is no King Faisal award. They are promoting some really weird un-islamic pro-regressive liberal junk being passed as Islamic blogs.

After all the award is run by a Shiite.

We, Muslims, need to wake up. Create our own awards.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass Aziz Poonawalla

I look forward to you launching yruo own awards, then. Be sure to exclude Shi’a, Ahmadis, Sufis, Deobandis, Uighurs, people without beards, women who don’t wear hijab, etc.

In all sincerity, if you do this, I will help you promote it at Talk Islam and my own blog networks.

regards
Aziz
shams

They are promoting some really weird un-islamic pro-regressive liberal junk being passed as Islamic blogs.
perhaps you could visit TI and engage in scholarly discussion?
i am always thirsty for knowledge.
:)

http://homeschoolingmuslimahmommys.webs.com Holly Garza

Congratulations to all!

Best Blog | Muslim Matters

Best Group Blog | Muslim Matters

Best Writer | Sadaf Farooqi*

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