Marco SecchiMarco SecchiPolitics, Religion, Social and lifestyle from published journalist Marco Secchi Articles
Burning books
2008-03-11 13:47:00 I hate the very idea of book burning. If a book is on the floor I pick it up and make out with it, and I generally wont set books on the floor anyway. Having said that, I think there is a reason that Muslims historically ? and to some extent today ? burn so many books. ... More About: Books , Culture , English , Burning
Anwar
2008-03-08 14:21:00 I like this movie very much, and despite the fact the actress is a pretty desi girl there is much more. It is a sad story and the all movie is sad but for once director/writer did not sugar coat the film with stereotypical bollywood endings. Anwar is the story of a young man ... More About: Islam , English
Best Qawwali
2008-03-08 13:57:00 One of my all time favourites Qawwali singer is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and I feel that Nusrat at his best is while singing Tum Ek Gorakh Dhanda Ho.The title of the song is addressing God, and saying: God! You are a puzzle! One can definitely appreciate this qawwali without knowing what it means, but ... More About: English
Cats
2008-03-07 23:44:00 It is related that after the death of the great Sufi Master al-Shibli, a friend saw him in a dream. The friend asked him what God had done with him, to which al-Shibli replied, ?God placed me before Him and asked if I knew why He had forgiven my sins. I said that it might be ... More About: Cats , English
Ana Zainab
2008-03-07 20:51:00 Searching for something completely unrelated I found this hymn about Zainab, the daughter of Ali (RA), really moving. Beautiful lyrics. She was the daughter of Imam Ali and Hazrat Fatima Zahra, She made an impassioned speech to Yazid after the murder of Imam Hussein. A version of it is captured here. ... More About: Culture , English
Thanks God for Libya
2008-03-07 10:59:00 Thanks God, there is Libya , just wondering in what kind of deals were involved the other Arabs countries and their corrupted muslim leaders that never showed the courage to raise their voices to speak out forr Palestine…. possibly they were gambling and drinking in the streets of New York or London, gallivanting while most of ... More About: Islam , English
Sufi Music Edinburgh
2008-02-25 18:45:00 Fantastic music and great atmosphere yesterday evening at the Queen’ s Hall thanks to two Sufi groups form Afghanistan, we should get rid of religion and politics (preachers and politicians) to enjoy a peaceful world living “with” nature, based on Music and Love. Without any further ado here a short piece from The Herald. Afghan ... More About: Islam , Edinburgh , English
Under the black tent
2008-02-25 18:34:00 I decided to rewrite my post about niqabi girls and Amir Hanza….. More About: Black , Tent
Love, songs and cinema
2008-02-24 14:01:00 Yesterday all of a sudden out of the blue, I decided to listen to Mughal-E-Azam - hanks to Dhingana are here. I know I have written before about the Anarkali story, and the video by Mansoor is here where the original poem of Bulleh Shah, Tere Ishq Nachaya, are here . The music and ... More About: Songs , Cinema , Love , English , Love Songs
Haifa vs Chickens
2008-02-22 17:40:00 I think that there is a connection between these two Arab adverts, especially after the latest update; anyway I think they are both interesting, may be not for the obvious reason! Haifa Wahbe has few merits. During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, in a concert in the Lebanese town of Jounieh, she congratulated Hassan ... More About: Philosophy , Islam , Culture , English
Osama
2008-02-21 22:48:00 Went to the first movie of the Reel Afghanistan festival in Edinburgh. Afghanistan’s first film since the rise and fall of the Taleban show the damage they have done at every single level of the society, but also the stupidity of fundamentalist and the corrupted sexual life of more than a Mullah. It portrays ... More About: Family , Culture , English , Osama
Who is drinking what in UK
2008-02-21 15:00:00 The new figures relating to alcohol in UK make worrying reading, :: Figures from 2003 estimated that 6.4 million people consume alcohol at moderate to heavy levels. Of this group, the women were drinking between 14 and 35 units a week while men were drinking 21 to 50 units a week; :: A further 1.8 million were ... More About: Islam , Culture , English , Drinking
Reel Afghanistan
2008-02-21 10:50:00 For once a nice and interesting initiative will start today in Edinburgh, Reel Afghanistan will show during the next week very interesting movies and will stage two Sufi concerts one at the Queen’s Hall. Great choice of films but also of cinemas they will be using the Filmhouse and Cameo that in my opinion ... More About: Islam , Culture , English
From the Vatican to Al-Azhar?.coming soon to Edinburgh
2008-02-19 20:42:00 Mr Idris Tawfiq, a former Christian priest, will next week visit Edinburgh hosting an evening speech at Central Mosque. I am not sure if I have been invited or not, I get far too many emails these days, but there are few reasons why I am not going anyway. Call me a cynic, but ... More About: Vatican , Al-Azhar , The Vatican
From the Vatican to Al-Azhar ?..coming soon to Edinburgh
2008-02-15 17:55:00 Mr Idris Tawfiq, a former Christian priest, will next week visit Edinburgh hosting an evening speech at Central Mosque. I am not sure if I have been invited or not, I get far too many emails these days, but there are few reasons why I am not going anyway. Call me a cynic, but ... More About: Vatican , Al-Azhar , The Vatican
Islam and women
2008-02-15 16:54:00 Hizbollah Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadl-All?h The ayatollah has a simple piece of advice for any Muslim woman being abused by her husband: Hit him back……… More About: Islam , Women , Family , English , Hizbollah
Opposing Sharia arbitration in UK
2008-02-14 18:28:00 After last week speech of the Right Honorable Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and the reaction from Media and Politics, the main point is that serious debate about equal rights for Muslims or integration as a two-way process is becoming impossible in an atmosphere of growing Islamophobic intolerance. Back to Sharia arbitration Courts, in his book ... More About: English , Arbitration
Fed Up with Headscarves
2008-02-14 18:10:00 Former hijabi Mona Eltahawy writes: I am a Muslim. I wore a headscarf for nine years. And I am fed up with headscarves. I?m fed up that every conversation about Muslim women begins and ends with headscarves. I?m fed up that secularists and Islamists alike are obsessed with headscarves. I?m fed up that the fights between the ... More About: Culture , English
Worst dressed city
2008-02-07 17:26:00 Every April sees the nominee for the worst dressed British Place, last year if I remember correctly was Plymouth in Devon, I have not been recently and I cannot comment. Fashion police will be kept busy during the next few months and I am sure Scotland will have its fair share of glory …may be it’s ... More About: English , City
New low for Tesco
2008-02-07 16:52:00 Tesco has come under fire from animal rights campaigners for slashing the price of its standard chickens by more than a third to £1.99.Welfare groups argue that the discount undermines their efforts to get consumers to pay more for poultry that has been reared more humanely. If you can’t afford to buy a decent bird that ... More About: News , English , Tesco
Wendy Alexander should GO ?now.
2008-02-04 12:42:00 Wendy Alexander , the dead duck leader of the opposition Labour Party in Scotland, said she wouldn’t quit her post following reports that prosecutors are looking into evidence she failed to disclose donations to her office. More than a dead duck she looks like a dead frog run over by a 18Tons lorry and now on ... More About: English , Wendy , Wendy Alexander
French presidents marries Carla Bruni
2008-02-03 12:20:00 The wedding, finally (I hope) confirmed, comes after weeks of speculation about the couple’s over-exposed love affair. French radio station RTL claims to have spoken to witnesses at the event but both the president’s office and Mr Sarkozy’s spokesman, David Martinon, have declined to comment. The couple’s romance has been making headlines around the world since ... More About: English , Presidents , Carla , Carla Bruni
Killers? day out
2008-02-01 11:06:00 To rely on the Daily Record for accuracy on the latest News is already something but today I found something interesting. THEY look like any other group of friends enjoying a summer day out. But the 14 women smiling happily in this picture are killers responsible for the deaths of 13 people and two unborn ... More About: English , Killers
Militari Italiani (Nazisti) in Afghanistan
2008-01-31 12:15:00 Le foto di un mezzo blindato dell’esercito italiano colpito da una mina in Afghanistan svelano un particolare inquietante: i nostri soldati vanno in missione con la palma dell?Afrika Korps hitleriano dipinta sulle jeep. In Afghanistan sognando El Alamein, sembra che i commandos delle forze speciali italiane vadano in missione con la palma dell’Afrika Korps dipinta sulle ... More About: Italiano , Estero
Qualities of dogs
2008-01-27 17:55:00 dogs are higher than you and the rooster is better than the Mullah for at least they wake friends who are asleep (Bulleh Shah) When the great Sufi Master Abu Yazid al-Bestami, called Bayazid, was walking in the desert on the pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, he walked past a well where many people were gathered around drawing up ... More About: Dogs
Gothic pet Girl and liberation of women
2008-01-26 20:17:00 A bus company has apologised to a girl who is led around on a leash by her boyfriend and describes herself as a human pet after one of its drivers threw her off a bus. Tasha Maltby, 19, told British newspapers she was the “pet” of her 25-year-old fiance Dani Graves. I must say I like ... More About: Women , Culture , English , Girl , Gothic
Alain Ducasse, The Dorchester and social equality
2008-01-16 21:51:00 I am passionate about food and I always read restaurant critics but I am probably even more passionate about social equality, I found the following article and review really excellent. It is about the Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester but as the article points out Alan Ducasse is not there at all, he is probably ... More About: Social , Family , Culture , English , Equality
Harry Potter
2008-01-13 17:19:00 Author J.K. Rowling has donated a complete set of autographed Harry Potter novels to an auction that will benefit a local Scottish Rugby club. Jo donated the books for an auction that will benefit Portobello Rugby Club of Edinburgh, Scotland. The BBC reports this club was destroyed by fire when it was ?burned down by ... More About: News , English
Just say no!
2008-01-08 15:04:00 I am getting annoyed by the number of daily enquiries of “clients” that contact me asking to use a number of my images in their publication for free or in exchange of a byline . I feel that a kindly pointer to this particular video would be a most suitable response as to why a ... More About: English
Khuda Ke Liye (In the name of God)
More articles from this author:2008-01-07 13:37:00 Yesterday got the chance to watch the record breaking Pakistani film by Shoaib Mansoor Khuda Ke Liye and overnight has become my favourite film. Or more accurately I should say, that there hasn?t been a film in the recent past that has moved me in this way. The film has a ... More About: Islam , Culture , English 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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