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This is a guest post by Dilshad A. Ali. Returning home from any conference, there is a time of decompression and processing, as I am doing at my home in Virginia. I just wrapped up three intense days at the WISE (Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equity) 2009 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, couched…

I’ll be out of town this week, but hopefully will have a guest post or two to fill in the time. Until then, don’t forget to check out Talk Islam for ongoing discussion and links – it’s the best place on the web to talk about, er, Islam. And pretty much everything else 🙂

The following was a comment left by reader Gerald of Atlanta on my previous post. I am reproducing it in its entirety. UPDATE: I misidentified the reader as an Uyghur, actually he is descended from Chinese Hui muslims. I apologise for the mistake. I think his commentary is very valuable regardless of his background, which…

One of the frustrating things about Afghanistan is that it’s such a mess that our expectations for the democratic process were quite low. It seemed a given that Karzai would cruise to re-election unopposed, and while that may not be a bad thing, it’s not clear how the guarantee of power would serve to induce…
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