{"id":122,"date":"2008-11-20T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T11:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/11\/planet-islam.html"},"modified":"2008-11-20T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T11:31:23","slug":"planet-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/11\/planet-islam.html","title":{"rendered":"Planet Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to announce the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/planet\">Planet Islam<\/a>, an aggregator of posts from blogs from around the Islamsphere, including muslim blogs as well as non-muslim ones that post on issues related to Islam and muslims. Planet Islam is a sub-project of <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/\">Talk Islam<\/a>, where those same bloggers meet and share links and discuss the issues (such as, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2008\/11\/19\/racist-dirt-bag\/\">is Ayman Al Zawahiri a racist?<\/a>). These two sites really let you take the pulse of the muslim blogsphere in real-time and are well-worth bookmarking &#8211; go check them out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to announce the launch of Planet Islam, an aggregator of posts from blogs from around the Islamsphere, including muslim blogs as well as non-muslim ones that post on issues related to Islam and muslims. 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