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		<title>Elan’s Top 10 Twitter List for Muslims</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elan, a magazine on global Muslim youth culture, has compiled a Top 10 list for best Twitter accounts that Muslims should follow. According to Farrah Hamid, Queen Rania of Jordan is tops on his list, with over 950,000 followers and daily tweets. Her recent tweets include her state visit to Rome, Hillary Clinton’s support for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Elan, a magazine on global Muslim youth culture, has compiled a <a title="Elan Top 10 List" href="http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/featured_articles_detail/the_10_best_twitter_accounts_muslims_should_follow/" target="_blank">Top 10 list</a> for best Twitter accounts that Muslims should follow. According to Farrah Hamid, Queen Rania of Jordan is tops on his list, with over 950,000 followers and daily tweets. Her recent tweets include her state visit to Rome, Hillary Clinton’s support for global education (#1GOAL) and mini-movie reviews of District 9 and The Men Who Stare at Goats.</p>
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<p><a title="@QueenRania" href="http://twitter.com/Queenrania" target="_blank">@QueenRania</a> isn’t the only royal on the list; His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, is #7. Some of <a title="@HHShkMohd" href="http://twitter.com/HHShkMohd" target="_blank">@HHShkMohd</a>’s topics include a federal budget meeting, inauguration the Abu Dhabi Cultural Centre and a new electronic library in Istanbul – “an excellent project supporting Islamic culture and research.”</p>
<p>Former Laker basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (<a title="@kaj33" href="http://twitter.com/kaj33" target="_blank">@kaj33</a>) makes the list as well with his pictures with other celebrities, birthday wishes for former UCLA coach John Wooden and update on former teammate Vlade Divac.</p>
<p>There are also politically minded ones, with “The people of Iran” (<a title="@Iranelection" href="http://twitter.com/Iranelection" target="_blank">@Iranelection</a>, <a title="@iranriggedelect" href="http://twitter.com/iranriggedelect" target="_blank">@iranriggedelect</a> and <a title="@irannewsnow" href="http://twitter.com/irannewsnow" target="_blank">@irannewsnow</a>) getting a mention along with TheMuslimGuy, Arsalan Iftikhar (<a title="@themuslimguy" href="http://twitter.com/themuslimguy">@themuslimguy</a>), an international human rights lawyer.</p>
<p>Muslim Voices (<a title="@muslimvoices" href="http://twitter.com/muslimvoices" target="_blank">@muslimvoices</a>), an Indiana University-affiliated site seeking to promote dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims and Reza Aslan (<a title="@aslanMedia" href="http://twitter.com/aslanMedia" target="_blank">@aslanMedia</a>), author of No god but God – a book about the origins and future of Islam – receive mention as well.</p>
<p>Comedian Aziz Asari (<a title="@azizansari" href="http://twitter.com/azizansari">@azizansari</a>), a character on the NBC show Parks and Recreation, amuses with his wry observations (“Sienna Miller didn&#8217;t stay for my interview on Letterman, but Chester from Linkin Park told me I did great. My life in a nutshell.”) while South African moms (<a title="@MuslimMums" href="http://twitter.com/MuslimMums" target="_blank">@MuslimMums</a>) tweet about protecting children from consumerism and “Islamic etiquette 101:Do not use abusive and shameful language in the prescence of children.”</p>
<p>Al Jazeera English (<a title="@AJEnglish" href="http://twitter.com/AJEnglish" target="_blank">@AJEnglish</a>) rounds out the list with its multiple daily updates.</p>
<p><a title="Elanthemag" href="http://www.elanthemag.com/" target="_blank">Elanthemag.com</a> provides daily, online articles with “witty, engaging, thought-provoking and sometimes sarcastic takes on the issues that matter to our fellow young, hip Muslims. In addition to daily commentary from our bloggers on topics ranging from entertainment to politics, elan includes feature articles from prominent voices within our community, roundtable discussions by young Muslim leaders on hot topics, photo-essays, videos, profiles, special sections like ‘WTFatwa’ and ‘Policy Shift,’ and much more.”</p>
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