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Found this environmentally conscious, socially active site via Facebook: http://www.greendeen.blogspot.com/
Their mission statement: “Green Deen is a proactive effort of young Muslim activists from Southern California who have come together for the sake of Allah (swt) to raise awareness and change the current environmental conditions by promoting a healthier, greener and more environmentally conscious lifestyle.”
The GreenDeen blog was started in April 2008 and has already posted beneficial content for those who want to be mindful of how we interact with the environment.
They have a strong following on Facebook for a young site, with 318 members in their group.
Get green for your deen!
Halalfire has put up 2 stealth sites announcing their coming e-mams.org and muslimparents.com services. Halalfire is well known for their Zabihah.com site which is an excellent resource for finding restaurants with halal and zabihah menus. Other services Halalfire offers are Salatomatic (directory of mosques and Islamic schools), Halalapalooza (directory of Muslim owned businesses) and their popular online magazine, AltMuslim.
E-mams… IslamCrunch guesses:
Just noticed on their ‘About Us’ page:
e-mams.org - Your guide to the diversity of Islamic thought (coming early 2008)
muslimparents.com - Your guide to child-centric Islamic parenting (coming mid 2008)
Also, listed is another unnamed stealth project and a unnamed partner site (both due early 2008).
We will be waiting…
A new web 2.0 search engine has been released that allows you to search the Arabic web using English text. Yamli follows the well-known Google model of having a mimimalist site: a simple search field and and a few links with Yamli’s other service. Actually, the search field (powered by Google) is not ’simple’. You type in a word and a list of Arabic equivalents is provided in a dropdown menu.
Yamli’s other service is their English to Arabic text editor. Send a message in Arabic and show off your command of broken Arabic language (choosing the correct word will need some knowledge of Arabic, so you could be sending a word that sounds like what you want to express but the letters could be wrong! And different letters changes the meaning). Correction: the Yamli Editor allows you to convert transliterated words into the Arabic equivalent.
Here is what I typed out using the Yamli Editor:
First person to guess what I wrote in English gets a special invite to next the Web 2.0, Social Network or Muslim organization that we receive invites from. Drop a comment to submit your guess.
We have been blessed with two recent opportunities. As some of our readers have noticed, I have been invited to be a volunteer moderator on Muxlim.tv. The Muxlim team are very dynamic and have been very gracious. It has been such a fun experience, alhamdulillah. Being an admin and good friend of the Muxlim team has it’s perks; already I have had 4300+ on my channel. Two videos have hit more than 750+ views. Check out the IslamCrunch channel as well.
We were delighted to have been invited as an early partner for Muxlim’s Ramadan Marathon Charity. To read more about Muxlim.tv, click here: http://islamcrunch.com/archives/muxlimtv-has-launched/.
More recently, I have been asked to join as an admin on Imam Zaid Shakir’s blog team. Not only is this a prestigious opportunity to work (again) with a leading intellectual, I get to work with Expression Engine! EE is a content management system and blog platform that I have always wanted to dive into.
So if you have a video that needs to be approved on Muxlim.tv or a comment that needs to be edited or approved on Imam Zaid’s blog, drop me a line.
