بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Often times, people ask who speaks on behalf of group Y. Now group Y can anything, such as representatives of a nation, religion, city, minority, etc. It’s an on-going conflict between people who have different ideas and who has the to say “this is what group Y thinks.” Why is this relevant? [...]
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Who speaks for the group?
October 25th, 2008 · No Comments
The Genders
October 10th, 2008 · No Comments
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
“Women totally dominate men of intellect and possessors of hearts.
But ignorant men dominate women, for they are shackled by an animal ferocity.
They have no kindness, gentleness or love, since animality dominates their nature.
Love and kindness are human attributes; anger and sensuality belong to the animals.
” -Rumi
The above quote strikes as one of [...]
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Value Adding
December 30th, 2007 · No Comments
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
During Ramadan in 2007, I was able to meet a student from UM Flint by chance. He came to attend an Community Iftar (breaking of the fast) at the Mosque in Flint, MI and I happened to be there visiting my family that same day. He was not Muslim, he [...]
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Boycotting Hollywood
February 8th, 2007 · No Comments
My wife watched Hotel Rwanda yesterday for the first time. When that movie first came out I refused to go watch and I refused to rent it (I didn’t watch it with her either). My reason: It’s a movie, it’s Hollywood.
For those of you who don’t know what happened: Two groups [...]
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