Wish I had a kid so I can show them the entries on FlameChallenge.com.
Also, just read that the majority of adults are childless now on MSN. For some reason this makes me sad.
May312012
May302012
Amy Poehler is the best and Seventeen magazine is the worst and the only thing I would add to that answer would be a solid “Fuck you” after the end.
(via silentlydrawn)
1PM
Meanwhile many of you protesting NATO supplies and singing sovereignty mantra, I am sorry I have seen you standing in the queue for visa to the very same NATO countries.
My father just came back from Pakistan and said pretty much the same thing. Everyone he talked to in Pakistan hates the American government, but everyone wants to move to America. He even said that once you give money to beggers they don’t just say, “I will pray for you” they say, “I pray that you get an American visa.”
May202012
CAPTAIN AMERICA AS SLEEPING BEAUTY OMG.
^
TONY AS KUZCO
You do not understand how perfect this is.
Everything is perfect, tbh.
um i feel like Loki would be Scar.
(Source: bartonesque)
May192012
![muslimwomeninhistory:
I am trying to make clear the role of the Moroccan woman and the role of the Muslim woman in the sense [that] we are not just confined and sitting in one corner. It becomes my duty and my passion, at the same time, to show another facet of the real Arab woman to the Western world and to the world in general. We are very strong ….We have our own personality, on our own. We want to be seen like that. We don’t want the projection of the Western world or the Islamic culture to be projected on us from both sides. We want to be seen as human beings.
- Lalla Essaydi](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3z3c2IzGo1qefwm5o1_400.jpg)
I am trying to make clear the role of the Moroccan woman and the role of the Muslim woman in the sense [that] we are not just confined and sitting in one corner. It becomes my duty and my passion, at the same time, to show another facet of the real Arab woman to the Western world and to the world in general. We are very strong ….We have our own personality, on our own. We want to be seen like that. We don’t want the projection of the Western world or the Islamic culture to be projected on us from both sides. We want to be seen as human beings.
10AM
“Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Let’s not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her.”
Khalid Yasin (via ninaesse)
“Stable in her society”? I wish I could find the context of this, since it almost sounds like we should ignore Muslims who aren’t ‘stable’ in her society. Why? Are we supposed to ignore problems? Honestly, I agree with the first few lines, but really the oppression of Muslim women within our own American societies should be publicized, so we American Muslims can do something about it.
Also, in case I understood the ‘stable’ sentiment wrong, why, instead of showing the diversity of Muslim women, do we have to find some specific tokenized woman to represent us? It would be nice to get a female scholar to speak about issues, but really, we need to show regular Muslimahs as well.
P.S. Instead of having a non-hijabi talk about the religious significance of hijab, why don’t hijabis talk about Islam and hijab? (I’m personally not a fan of Khaled Yasin)
(via antesdachuva)
May182012
Community was amazzzzzzzing
I think I’m going to watch those episodes again when I have time.
May172012
typical conversation I have with an annoying Muslim guy
- Me: So I just attended a lecture entitled "Foundations of Faith." It gave me a whole new perspective!
- Annoying Muslim Guy: MashaAllah MashaAllah, who was the teacher?
- Me: The scholar was X
- Annoying Muslim Guy: I've never heard of this brother.
- Me: Oh I didn't either. He's actually [different sect/philosophy from Annoying Muslim Guy]
- Annoying Muslim Guy: THAT is a deviant sect... Astaghfirullah. [Annoying Muslim guy's sect/philosophy] is the one truth and is the ONLY path to God.
- Me: Erm... [attempts to speak]
- Annoying Muslim Guy: [Annoying Muslim Guy's favorite scholar] once said that ISLAM is the way of the truth and the only way to truth is [Annoying Muslim guy's sect]. All other sects are deviant and HARAAAMMM.
- Me: Erm.. [attempts to speak]
- Annoying Muslim Guy: Sister, inshaAllah I will show you scholars that can guide you to the siratul mustaqim, the STRAIGHT Path... [starts translating random Arabic with the weird assumption that I have never taken a class on Islam in my life before] ... Have you listened to the scholars of the right path? Have you heard of [Annoying Muslim guy's second favorite scholar] or [Annoying Muslim guy's third favorite scholar]....... or [Annoying Muslim guy's 80th favorite scholar]?
- Me: [trying to leave, starting to get annoyed by this stupid lecture]
- Annoying Muslim Guy: Alhamdulillah. May all the believers who follow the path to TRUTH find their way into Jannat. InshaAllah I will pray for your imaan sister.
- Me: [Super annoyed by the fact that they are using terms such as Alhamdulillah and inshaAllah in a self-righteous manner] Really, so the only people who understand the TRUTH are these scholars that tell you that their path is the path to TRUTH?
- Annoying Muslim Guy: Sister, sister, please don't be argumentative. We must obey the commands of Allah, and these scholars are really the soldiers of Allah. SubhanAllah...
- Me: [just realized I trapped myself into another annoying 30 minute speech]
- Annoying Muslim Guy: ... And that is why you must stray away from those who teach you a deviant form of Islam. [Most of the analogies and thoughts were contradictory, but hey, I want to get out of here]
- Me: Salaam
- Annoying Muslim Guy: Asalaaaamualeium Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuhu my sister.
May162012
HATE IT WHEN MY MOM ASKS ME TO SEND EMAILS TO RANDOM AUNTIES OF MY PICTURE SO THEY CAN SEND A SUITOR.
HATE IT SO MUCH.
Now I must prepare for the incoming losers. (The only type of guys who use rishtaa aunties are the type of guys who are super-weird/creepy)
12PM
If the hijab forced men to “look at my personality and not my physical beauty,” as many hijabis seem to claim, I wouldn’t hate getting a gyro from the gyro stand guy. Every single time, no matter where I go to get it (now I’m careful as to where since I’m not entirely sure if I believe all the carts are genuinely halal), one of the creepy guys hits on me. And I’m pretty sure it’s because I’m a hijabi.
Once this guy who was twice my age asked me out.
Never went back.
Too bad I absolutely love lamb gyros.
May152012
My posts have increasingly become sporadic with no real correlation… and yet I keep gaining followers. I don’t get you guys.
10PM
“Besides being publisher of Harper’s Magazine and writing books, I occasionally review them, including the most complete biography to date of yesterday’s Barnard commencement speaker. To help illustrate my point, let’s do a close reading of one passage from this book [The Bridge] by New Yorker editor David Remnick. We learn that in his senior year at Columbia, Barack Obama took a modern fiction course with Edward Said, who until his death in 2003 was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. My reading of this text leads me to believe that Remnick’s account of Barack Obama’s life was authorized by its subject—that most of what’s in it is there because the president wanted it there. Remnick offers this description of Said and of Obama’s feelings about his English professor: “Best known for his advocacy of the Palestinian cause, and his academic excoriation of the Eurocentric ‘Orientalism’ practiced by Western authors and scholars, Said had done important work in literary criticism and theory. And yet, Said’s theoretical approach in the course left Obama cold.” Remnick then quotes a friend of Obama’s who also took the course: “My whole thing, and Barack had a similar view, was that we would rather read Shakespeare’s plays than the criticism. Said was more interested in the literary theory, which didn’t appeal to Barack or me.” According to Remnick, the young Obama referred to Said as a “flake.”
Although I agree that it’s usually better to read the original than a criticism of the original, this is a misreading of Said. Edward Said was many things: a lover of literature, a fearsome and inspiring teacher, a politically engaged public intellectual, a humanist, but most pertinent to this speech, an extraordinarily rigorous reader and teacher of text. On at least one occasion he threw a student out of class for not knowing the definition of a word, and he never went into class less than completely prepared. The last extended conversation I had with him was in his apartment on Riverside Drive: we talked not about Middle Eastern politics, but about Stendahl’s Charterhouse of Parma and its wily and seductive female protagonist, Gina Sanseverina. “Ah, Gina,” he said with appreciation and feeling, as if he had known her personally.”
Although I agree that it’s usually better to read the original than a criticism of the original, this is a misreading of Said. Edward Said was many things: a lover of literature, a fearsome and inspiring teacher, a politically engaged public intellectual, a humanist, but most pertinent to this speech, an extraordinarily rigorous reader and teacher of text. On at least one occasion he threw a student out of class for not knowing the definition of a word, and he never went into class less than completely prepared. The last extended conversation I had with him was in his apartment on Riverside Drive: we talked not about Middle Eastern politics, but about Stendahl’s Charterhouse of Parma and its wily and seductive female protagonist, Gina Sanseverina. “Ah, Gina,” he said with appreciation and feeling, as if he had known her personally.”
John MacArthur, Columbia College Class Day Keynote Speech (Read More!)
10PM
“But is it too much to ask of anyone concerned with our Middle Eastern policy to read Said’s trilogy—that is, before they encourage a military attack on Iran by proxies—be they French, Israeli, British, or Saudi Arabian? Wouldn’t it be truly audacious if Barack Obama, class of 1983, had done a close enough reading of the three Orientalism texts—with their subtext of humiliation endured by colonized peoples—to cite them as a reason for his praiseworthy reluctance to move from sanctions to violence?
That before he wasted one more life, one more dollar in Islamic Afghanistan, Obama showed some interest in his old professor instead of reading the dubious Robert Kagan? And furthermore, that the president of the United States meet with Iran’s, shall we say, flaky, President Ahmahdinejad? After all, Obama has already visited another religiously intolerant abettor or terrorists and officially anti-Israel head of state, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.”
That before he wasted one more life, one more dollar in Islamic Afghanistan, Obama showed some interest in his old professor instead of reading the dubious Robert Kagan? And furthermore, that the president of the United States meet with Iran’s, shall we say, flaky, President Ahmahdinejad? After all, Obama has already visited another religiously intolerant abettor or terrorists and officially anti-Israel head of state, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.”
John MacArthur, Columbia College Class Day Keynote Speech
Read this!
9PM
akio:
Palestinian children take part in theatrical reenactment of the Nakba in a kindergarden, on March 15th 2012 by Abed Rahim Khatib/Gaza via Demotix
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