Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Zionist Terrorist Barbarian Thugs Beat Up Palestinians on Camera
I highly recommend everyone checks out this video. Spread it around and you can also Digg it, Islamify it, Stumble it, email it to your friends or blog about it.
I recently read (ok skimmed) an article that blamed Muslim parents for the religious extremism of their children. I’m sure that Zionist thugs are […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Activism, controversy by themanoffewwords
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Nazis Steal Nazis’ Children
Check out this article!!! It’s about a Nazi family who had their children taken away because their parents were teaching them this White Supremacist idealogy. While I find such an ideology repugnant I find that the state removing children from their parents because they are teaching them ideas to be quite authoritarian and […]
No Comments » - Posted in controversy by themanoffewwords
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
The Internet Has Ruined Me
Yes it’s true, the internet is evil yet I have a love hate relationship with it. I recently discovered this article and it basically sums up my dilemma with these here tubes.
While the internet is such a great resource it has fundamentally changed the way that I approach reading. Where I used to […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Reflections by themanoffewwords
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Sacred Scrolls
The Sacred Scrolls event is coming soon and features Sh. Yasir Qadhi and Imam Suhaib Webb. I’m very excited myself. Here’s the description from the site:
AlMaghrib Institute is Overjoyed to Bring You…
Sacred Scrolls: 40 Hadeeth Nawawi
A single weekend degree seminarLessons from the timeless collection of hadeeth compiled by Imam AlNawawiJoin hundreds of students […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Events by themanoffewwords
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
How I Got Accepted to an Elite Seminary
I WANTED IN!!! Almaghrib Institute is hosting an awesome, but exclusive, two week retreat in August called “Ilm Summit” and I didn’t want to miss it. I was especially excited about it when I saw some of the topics that were going to be discussed. The only problem was that there […]
15 Comments » - Posted in Edudrama, Events, Humor, Muslim Projects, Poetry by themanoffewwords
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
An Amazing Poem By Rumi: We Are the Flute
This is a poem that I read a while back. I thought it was quite beautiful. It is also very appropriate to how I have been feeling nowadays.
We are the Flute
We are the flute, our music is all Thine;
We are the mountains echoing only Thee;
And movest to defeat or victory;
Lions emblazoned high on […]
No Comments » - Posted in Poetry by themanoffewwords
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Dancing Comparison Goes Awry
The following conversation occurred at a wedding I went to today:
Dude1: The dabka [Palestinian dance] is so stupid … it’s only two steps.
Me: Yo, what about the Desis [Indo-Pakistanis], you guys just point.
Dude2: Don’t forget the point and wrist twist.
Dude1: Yeah and the cup and twist.
Me: Dude, are we still talking about dancing?
