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Iowa and changes
2008-01-05 16:39:00 There are two obvious sensational winners, on the very first day of the long American season election, the Democratic Hussein Barak Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee. Both represent the desire of new and better in a country suffocated by seven years of arrogance ?bushista? . It is also a defeat that makes the news today ... More About: News , Politics , Hillary Clinton , English , Iowa
Britney Spears
2008-01-05 11:10:00 In what kind of society do we live? What kind of value do we really treasure? “…It comes after the troubled pop star was taken to hospital for psychological tests …and is place for the next 72 hours on special watch” and A court commissioner has awarded sole custody of Britney Spears ’ two young sons to ex-husband Kevin ... More About: Family , English
Heavy Snow hits Scotland and UK
2008-01-03 18:21:00 HEAVY SNOW hit parts of Scotland today as forecasters predicted the first significant fall of the winter. The Met Office issued a severe weather warning covering almost the entire country, with heavy snow predicted for much of Scotland. The Grampian area will bear the brunt of the bad weather, and 20 to 30cm of snow could ... More About: News , English , Snow , Hits
On/Off
2008-01-02 15:48:00 My teacher and spiritual advisor, Shaykh Restnow Ifyou Wish, has finally advised me to take few days off from this blog to focus on more meditative and hopefully intelligent writing. If you feel withdrawal symptoms my first suggestion is that you take up an hobby….but here is my RSS feed of this blog so you ...
Loony Dook
2008-01-01 19:01:00 This famous event, organised from The Moorings Lounge in South Queensferry and which first took place on 1 January 1987, involves what is now a huge number of people, many in fancy dress, aged from 8 to 80 taking a plunge in the River Forth in the shadow of the famous Bridges ... More About: News , Photography , English
New discovery in Scotland!!
2007-12-28 18:58:00 From the Press Association SCOTLAND Alcohol: Getting drunk over the festive period appears to be Scotland ’s “national sport”, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill said today. I hope they did not arrive to this fantastic discovery after spending several millions pound to one of the Governmental Agencies! You just need to walk one evening or even morning in Princes ... More About: Discovery , New Discovery
Converts and Authoritarian Religious Parasites
2007-12-28 18:08:00 A short Preface : I do believe in traditional authoritativeness, I have been a reader and studied Traditionalist philosopher closer to Islam like Guenon and Evola (see a previous post) and followed them for a long time (and still do in some ways) but to me there is a clear difference between an ... More About: Culture , English , Converts , Religious
Bash the dead
2007-12-28 16:04:00 Already, our self-appointed ?civil society? elites are framing an apologist narrative for the Islamists. You already start hearing the comment ?She should not have stepped out, it was not safe? ” Why did she came back?” Well, I put this down to the ?lash the victim? mentality that is as usual popular amongst Muslims. 1) When a ... More About: News , English , Dead , Bash
Dietro un assassinio
2007-12-27 19:36:00 Benazir Bhutto, due volte ex Primo Ministro del Pakistan, e una delle principali voci di democratizzazione, è stata assassinata in un attentato suicida a Rawalpindi, una città militare, vicino alla capitale Islam abad. Stava lasciando una manifestazione elettorale con alcuni dei suoi più vicini consiglieri politici. Circa altre trenta persone sono state uccise. Al-Qaeda ha ... More About: Estero
Benazir Bhutto assassinated (Update Al Qaeda)
2007-12-27 15:00:00 Benazir Bhutto is dead. News is just breaking that former Prime Minister and head of the Pakistan People?s Party, Benazir Bhutto was killed in Rawalpindi in a terrorist attack. Her car was shot at several times before the suicide bomber killed himself while being apprehended. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari says that one of these shots ... More About: Islam , English , Al Qaeda , Update
Bulleh Shah
2007-12-27 14:18:00 Yesterday. while I was writing the post about the Mullahs and their uselessness I rediscovered Bulleh Shah. He is one of my favourite Sufi poet-philosophers since many many years, I discovered him thanks to the brilliant Pakistani singer Abida Parveen but that was long ago! I strongly believe I owe Bulleh Shah a lot ... More About: Islam , Music , Culture , English , Rabbi
On the hutility of Mullahs
2007-12-26 16:55:00 There are a couple of images on Mullahs in my mind. One I think was taken by a Reuters Photographer in Bahrain and showed a group of them with young kids throwing stones in protest at women while they were running at a marathon, the other from a Getty photographer in Pakistan showed a huge ... More About: Culture , English
Hilarious
2007-12-26 16:28:00 Check this post The guy converts to Islam, then finds out that pimping is wrong….but is full of resources and see what he decide to do! Sometimes seems too good to be true….. More About: Culture , Hilarious , English
Christmas & Natale !
2007-12-25 01:11:00 Christmas greeting to all the Christian readers! Auguri di Buon Natale a tutti gli amici e lettori Cattolici! More About: Christmas
The Fascist Rudy Giuliani
2007-12-23 21:18:00 This is the cover from this month?s American Conservative magazine. The right wing mag of Pat Buchanan. I think the magazine is awful, however, I think its strange that paleoconservatives feel so strongly against Rudy. Here is what Giuliani wrote about freedom in 1994: that would be one decade after 1984: “What we don?t see ... More About: Politics , Culture , Rudy Giuliani , English
Ambientalismo in Islam
2007-12-20 14:58:00 L’idea che il profeta Maometto possa essere un pioniere dell’ambientalismo puo? inizialmente colpire come l?essere un fatto assai strano: infatti, il termine “ambiente” e i relativi concetti come “ecologia”, “coscienza ambientale” e di “sostenibilità”, sono invenzioni dei tempi moderni, Sono state formulati a fronte della crescente preoccupazione per la situazione contemporanea ... More About: Islam , Cultura , Italiano
An Hajj Story
2007-12-18 18:53:00 Found this story on the net, and it made me really sad. About three hundred poor people, mostly elderly, who had saved money their entire life to go to hajj, were taken by their local travel agents to Karachi?s planetarium, which contains a replica Pakistan International Airlines airplane. They were told that they were about to ... More About: Islam , Story , English , Hajj
Pensieri sul delitto d?onore, in Islam.
2007-12-18 17:53:00 Poche settimane fa in Italia il processo per il caso Hima Saleem, sgozzata dal padre perché rifiutava delle nozze combinate, Recentemente, una ragazza musulmana è stata uccisa, in Canada, da suo padre perche’ rifiutava di portare l?hijab. Quando sento queste notizie, devo ammettere, che il sangue mi bolle nelle vene, e due diverse emozioni si ... More About: Islam , Cultura , Italiano
The Santa Run
2007-12-16 16:43:00 Every December When You Wish Upon A Star takes 400 children to Lapland to meet the real Father Christmas. Their adventure includes skidoos, snowmobiles, husky rides, quad bikes, sledging, skiing and of course sleigh rides with Rudolph in the magical Forest. This year Edinburgh Santa Run was today and participants will help them to grant the ... More About: News , Family , Photography , Fotografia , English
Queen Victoria
2007-12-11 23:03:00 QUEEN Victoria left on her maiden voyage today to the sights and sounds of a spectacular firwork display.Cunard’s £300m ship set sail for a ten-night cruise to northern Europe and the continental Christmas markets at 5pm against the background of the fireworks. Thousands turned out to watch the display and the ship’s departure, using Mayflower ... More About: Culture , English , Queen , Queen Victoria
Art and the City
2007-12-09 20:23:00 I have been invited to a special screening of the new Bollywood movie Aaja Nachle. It has been produced by Yash Raj Film that in my view is one of the best producers and not only for Bollywood Movies. Yash and Aditya Chopra had quite few box office hits in the last few years . ... More About: City
La razionalita? dell?omicidio di massa
2007-12-06 19:12:00 Ennesima strage della follia,un giovane omicida ha appena ucciso ad Omaha otto civili. Infine si è ucciso. Pochi mesi fa in Virginia un altro giovane armato aveva ucciso trentatré vittime innocenti, poi il suicidio. Lo scorso anno un altro gruppo di ?cecchini? uccise undici ragazze all?interno di una scuola prima di uccidersi loro ... More About: Dell , Cultura , Italiano , Massa
Media and a Teddy Bear
2007-12-05 21:51:00 One of the recent headlines that has gotten much attention is that of the British school teacher in Sudan who allowed her class to name a teddy bear Muhammed. She was arrested and there were demonstrations calling for her death then after negotiations she has returned to UK Finally the media circus around this ... More About: Islam , Media , Culture , English , Teddy Bear
Una questione scottante
2007-12-04 18:32:00 Un dato sconcertante e? emerso ieri all?apertura a Bali in Indonesia della conferenza Climate Change 2007 I paesi piu? ricchi ed indistrializzati del mondo spendono di piu? in creme solari in un mese che non per aiutare i paesi poveri nella lotta contro il cambiamento del clima. Circa 32 ... More About: Cultura , Italiano
Few important Fiqh questions
2007-12-02 21:06:00 With all the problems the Muslim Ummah is facing, somebody posted a fatwa on the permissibility of eating mermaids that all of us can use and shows just why these sites really are not dying out at all and shows that they talk about relevant issues. If the person asking the question is older than 6 ….can we ... More About: Culture , Questions , English , Fiqh
Kabul Express
2007-12-02 12:58:00 Kabul Express ? is a Bollywood engaging movie thriller by documentary film-maker Kabir Khan. The movie tells an interesting and thought-provoking tale against the backdrop of a country ravaged by war. Without falling victim to the stereotypes of commercial cinema, Kabir Khan attempts to bring the hard-hitting realities of Afghanistan to light. The story is set ... More About: Islam , Music , Culture , English
Hijab and secular society
2007-11-29 21:05:00 Italiano e English Sono piuttosto liberale sull’uso dell’Hijab e sinceramente non credo che sia “obbligatorio”, quando si leggono i testi al massimo possiamo metterlo tra le cose “suggerite” ma certamente non obbligatorie. Allo stesso tempo penso i paesi occidentali che lo vietano peccano di semplice pregiudizio contro l’Islam . Una parola a parte meritano a mio ... More About: Society , Culture , Cultura
La nuova religione
2007-11-29 15:06:00 Negli ultimi dieci anni, un?inarrestabile religione ha colpito tutto il mondo, facendo adepti, conquistando governi, sovvertendo la società, infiltrandosi nelle nostre case, distruggendo le famiglie, e mettendo i suoi capi al vertice della società umana. Giudaismo e Cristianesimo conquistate per prime , ma ora anche il mondo musulmano e indù stanno ... More About: Cultura , Italiano
Un orsetto per 40 frustate
2007-11-28 17:05:00 Generalmente riesco sempre a capire quando una storia ‘musulmana’ diventerà Notizia. Ieri avevo sentito la notizia a Real Radio qui a Edinburgh, era stata data in maniera molto dimessa, quasi tra le ultime notizie poco prima delle previsioni del tempo e la situazione del traffico. Ma questa mattina gran parte ... More About: Islam , Cultura , Italiano , Estero
The best chapter
More articles from this author:2007-11-27 19:28:00 I consider the 55th Chapter of the Quran the apex of the Quran?s metaphorical and structural composition. The perfect form of the poetry means that Surah Rahman invites a perfect recitation. I have uploaded what I consider the perfect rendition of Surah Rahman recited. If the embed google video doesn?t show up, just ... 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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