Thanks once again to Sunny over at British Asian blog Pickled Politics for sharing details of a new British Muslim blog which has just launched.
Blogistan looks a very promising addition to the blog community. A posting by founder Indigo Jo says the following:
This is what I intend will be a Muslim group blog for mainstream, orthodox Muslims, offering commentary on both religious and social issues from a Muslim point of view. I also intend that the blog would have a British focus, although not exclusively so. I would like this blog to represent the true, moderate face of Islam in Britain, and be a counterweight not only to unfair representations in the media, but also to certain media monitoring sites run by immature people who (probably unintentionally) regularly show us in a bad light. I also intend that the site would be free of overheated rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and sectarian propaganda.
Blogistan has already started to debate the way the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK) works and how it took issue with a story that appeared in The Independent.
As a fairly good example of the certain hysterical websites run by immature Muslims I've alluded to in posts announcing the establishment of Blogistan, I found on the MPACUK website this morning a good example of what software developers call a "regression"
It will be interesting to see how other issues are discussed and debated there. One to bookmark.
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