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On behalf of both altmuslim and City of Brass, we'd like to thank the 334 people who voted in the Third Annual Brass Crescent Awards. Voting was very close in most categories, and we would like to be the first to congratulate our winners and Honorable Mentions, as well as extend our thanks to all the nominees and voters for helping make this celebration of the Islamsphere a success. We also would like to thank everyone (including the nominees) who linked to us and helped publicize the Brass Crescent Awards.
We'll keep a permanent list of winners of the Brass Crescent Awards available at brasscrescent.org, as they represent a dynamic, creative, and powerful cross-section of Muslim thought on the web. We fully expect next year's crop of nominees to be just as interesting, if not more so, than this year's candidates. Inshallah, we'll run the Awards again next year, so start bookmarking posts, series, comments, and blogs now!
Winners and Honorable Mentions may contact us to receive HTML code to display a badge announcing their achievement if they desire.
Let's not keep you waiting any longer - listed below are this year's winners and Honorable Mentions. (In cases where the second place candidates were very closely spaced, we chose multiple Honorable Mentions): |
| Which single post or group of posts in the Islamsphere was the most original and important, above all the others? |
| A Bengali in TO, "Better Than A Thousand Months" - Winner |
Baraka, "Safarnama: The Republic of Tea 2006" - Honorable Mention |
| Lota Enterprises, "Why Racial Profiling of Muslims is a Bad Idea" |
Non Skeptical Essays, "Tradition" (parts 2, 3, and 4) |
| Thabet, "Policy, Profiling, Poverty" |
Haroon Moghul, "The Silent Traditionalist" |
| Atif Imtiaz, "The Muslim Condition" (parts 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6) |
Laila Lalami, "Caricatures: Clash of Civilizations, Clash of Ignorance" |
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| What blog post provided the best rebuttal to arguments of extremist ideology, and in so doing expose how those who commit evil in the name of Islam are actually profaning the faith? |
| SheilaX, "Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition" - Winner |
Ali Eteraz, "More On The Apostasy Hadith" - Honorable Mention |
| Ali Eteraz, "Jews as Apes and Swine" |
Thabet, "British Muslims Must Fight Extremism" |
| SheilaX, "Who Are The Taliban?" |
Thabet, "Prattle from the Party" |
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MOST DESERVING OF WIDER RECOGNITION: |
| Which multiple group blog in the Islamsphere has the best diversity of writers and the most interesting debate on Muslim issues? |
| Austrolabe - Winner |
Aqoul - Honorable Mention |
| Mere Islam - Honorable Mention |
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BEST MIDDLE-EAST/ASIAN BLOGGER: | The Islamsphere is truly a global phenomenon. In Iraq, despite the chaos and uncertainty, there is a sea change of free speech and expression, the vanguard of which are blogs. There are also bloggers in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Palestine, Jordan, and most other countries that host Muslims, all of whom have their own perspectives on faith, culture, and politics. |
| Nzingha's Soapbox - Winner |
Raising Yousuf, Unplugged - Honorable Mention |
| The Angry Arab - Honorable Mention |
A Star From Mosul |
| Indscribe |
Nora Younis |
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