Around the Blogosphere (4.28.07)

After an extended break from our weekly Blogosphere reviews comes an extended version:

• Dr. M is back with his hard-hitting observations here.
• On Ahad vs. Mutawatir hadith by Sh. Yusuf.
• On avoiding extremism found over at the Nuqtah blog.
• A beautiful story of the The Mute Daa’iyah (caller to Islam) over at ‘Aynul-Yaqeen
• Check out the video on the Bosnian callers to Islam at Muslim Europe. There is also an interesting piece on “Western Muslim Culture” and the diversity in brotherhood.
• Purification of the Soul between Sunnah & Innovation: Transcripts of lectures by Ali al-Timimi & Muhammad AlShareef at Ibn al-Hydrabadee’s blog. Oh, while you are there, check out the cool short film made by a some high-school Muslims for the local MIST competition here.
• Tariq Nelson talks about the roots of Islamophobia in racism.
• Umm Reem talks about not wasting precious time.
• Yusuf Smith reviews Melanie Phillips’s Islamophobic novel “Londonistan” here. Austrolabe has a few thoughts on it as well here.

And here’s a great quote from Moulana Mohammed Ilyas (via at-Tazkirah):

“There is no man or Muslim who is wholly good or wholly bad. Everyone has his own virtues and weaknesses. If the practice of appreciating the good and ignoring the bad points of each other became current among us, many evils will disappear by themselves from the world and virtues will take their place. But, unfortunately, what obtains in actual practice, today, is far different.”