Jamul Alert...

I have a “Google Blog Alert” running; if anyone uses the word “Jamul” on a blog, it sends me an email.  This morning I got this one:

Google Blogs Alert for: Jamul

Women in Islam: The Position of the Beard in Islam
By Iman Bendjedidi
In Mu'jamul-Kabeer (11/41), there is a narration by Ibn 'Abbaas (radiyallaahu 'anhu), “Indeed, the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said, “Whoever disfigures his hair, there is no share for him with Allaah. ...
Women in Islam - http://imanbendjedidi.blogspot.com/

This is obviously not about the town of Jamul, but I was intrigued enough to go follow the link. The Women in Islam site it links to is, for a non-Muslim, a window into the beliefs and practices of Islam, without the usual hype you'd find in a news story.

One of the links I found on that web site was to an Islamic search engine, on which I searched for jihad.  The resulting set of links is rather frightening, and in my mind puts the lie to the meme that Islam is the “religion of peace”.  Unless, of course, their definition of “peace” is much different than mine...