Comments on: Brass Crescent: Best Group Blogs

By: Umm Layth

Umm Layth — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:31:31 +0000

Ijtema’.

By: iMuslim

iMuslim — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:00:41 +0000

You guys are funny… hehe

Mouse, no need to lash out at Ijtema. It is updated everyday. The only thing that has not been updated is the feature entry, cos of a problem we have with the wordpress template. Most frustrating!

By: AnonyMouse

AnonyMouse — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:40:30 +0000

Pffft lamers, the lot of you… MM all the way! :D
(And I find it hilarious that I can now add “radical conservative” to my list of labels thrown at me… along with pseuo-intellectual… closet-proggie-feminist… immature idealist… hehe)

Oh, and Ijtema looks like it hasn’t been updated in eons!

By: Mezba

Mezba — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:42:44 +0000

I would vote for ijtema. MM is a bit too … idealistic for me ! :-P

By: Organica

Organica — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:46:02 +0000

MM should get an award for the types of reactions they get out of me. Remember last year I think I made a special phone call via skype or mobile to vent.

They gotta yo!

By: Qas

Qas — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:19:27 +0000

I meant Hguy and Shahgirl’s blogs.

By: Qas

Qas — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:03:55 +0000

lol…both of your blogs make me shake my head for all the radical liberalism of it all.

By: Shahrzad

Shahrzad — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:02:40 +0000

“I think MuslimMatters is more popular, although from the type of posts I see there most of the time I find myself shaking my head at the radical conservatism of it all”

Me too Haleem.. :)

By: Shahrzad

Shahrzad — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:01:57 +0000

I voted for Ijtima’a. I like that better..

By: iMuslim

iMuslim — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:11:05 +0000

Haleem – congrats on being nominated yourself!

I think the “radical conservatism” (you gotta love the way we label each other – reminds me of the time I was accused of being a “Eurocentric Liberal Progressive”) you refer to stems from a subsection of the commentators. Having spent over a year behind the scenes with other MM staffers, I can confidently say that, although we are admittedly a conservative bunch, I don’t think we’re excessively so.

A lot of internal debate goes on behind the scenes in order to achieve the right balance. Obviously, we are not immune to making mistakes… but when we do, we do try to learn from where we went wrong. May Allah improve us, and protect the community from our errors, ameen.

I don’t think it makes sense to vote for the more popular of the two, anyhow. :)