February 2012
Killing Newborn Babies No Different To Abortion,... →
uhh..
A medical journal has called for the acceptance of ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn baby), causing outrage among pro-life campaigners and raising an array of ethical questions.
Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Alberto Giubilini from the University of Milan and Francesca Minerva from Melbourne University argue that foetuses and newborns “do not have the same moral...
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What the Quran burnings tell us || Foreign Policy →
Suppose the town or city where you live had a bunch of heavily-armed foreign soldiers living nearby. As part of their normal duties, they sent patrols down your street with some frequency, bristling with guns and other instruments of war. Imagine that these soldiers were from a very different culture and nearly all of them did not speak your native language, although they could occasionally...
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Sometimes I get the feeling Shaykh Hamza Yusuf...
Every time I listen to him I feel like he’s trying to convince me that I and everyone around me is an idiot.
He’s pretty good at convincing me that.
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Why Would Afghani citizens be so angry? - Omid... →
Why would the Afghanis be angry? Because since 2007, there have been 11,864 documented civilian casualties in their country. The actual number is likely to be much, much higher, given all the challenges at documenting casualties in a war-torn, difficult to navigate country like Afghanistan.
Why wold the Afghanis be angry? Because children routinely freeze to death in their country. ...
“Detachment from worldly desires is not that you should own nothing, but that...”
– Imam Ali (a.s)
“Hellllllllloooooooooo! Bar-Bie Doll…
Assalam-O-Alaikum!...”
– So I just realized the reason I haven’t been getting weird messages on Facebook was that Facebook has created a ‘spam filter.’ When you’re on the messages tab click ‘Other’ and voila! you got yourself a lot of weird messages from creepy guys!
“But can we please admit that many four year colleges do in fact attempt to...”
– This is pedantry at its best.
All education is transformative. No one is born believing a darn thing.Your parents, your church and your community all install ideas and beliefs and faiths in you. College comes late to the game, and can only provide those students who care to develop them with the...
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The bar, it's so colorful!
What is life?
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The Bigotry of Praise and Recognition at The... →
At last night’s Oscars, this bigotry of praise and recognition reared its head in two primary ways: The Help and Saving Face. The recognition of both films (and particularly Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer for the former) offer an unsettling glimpse into how the Academy views so-called ‘women of color’ and how subconscious (?) racialism is far, far from an irrelevant issue in how we pick and...
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I want to get this stupid super-stressful exam over so I can go back to my regular life of being bored, marking things on my ‘to read’ list by opening it into a new tab and never looking at it again, and wondering where my life is going.
My professor hasn’t taught us half the stuff that is going to be on the exam. I have three more hours to teach my self three entire sections.
Hahahhaha I’m bombing this exam, and Iduncurr
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“When Octavia Spencer won a best supporting actress Oscar for playing a maid in...”
– Even the Jokes Had Wrinkles - NYT
I stopped watching after the 45-minute joke. Am I the only one who thought it was offensive?
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“At this time, many Iranians all over the world are watching us and I imagine...”
– Asghar Farhadi’s Acceptance Speech at the Oscar’s
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Black atheists seek recognition for role in civil... →
Few people think of A. Philip Randolph, a labor organizer who originated the idea of the march and was at King’s side as he made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Why is King, a Christian, remembered by so many and Randolph, an atheist, by so few? It’s a question many African-American nontheists — atheists, humanists and skeptics — are asking this Black History Month, with some scholars and...
korakaghaz:
4 Methods of Islamic conversion we have learned about in my History of India class. My professor wrote his lecture around Richard Eaton’s “The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier” which is available online and a must read for anyone interested in this topic.
Force. Allegedly, Muslims from the Middle East came on horses, held swords to the necks of villagers and gave them an...
“Male privilege has been with us for — how long? Ten thousand years? A hundred...”
– Sara Robinson, on “Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now”
Everyone should read this article.
(via coketalk)
After a date rape (by a "poet") during a trip to... →
motherjones:
“The Way It Was”: Abortion in the US before Roe v. Wade.
Why is everyone here a Kanye West fan?
Is it part of a joke, or are you guys serious Kanye-fans?
“Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Love is when hearts harbour mutual affection due to the...”
– [Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2057]
(via keepingtaqwa)
Book of Job →
Watched The Tree of Life last night and wanted to put this link somewhere where I’d remember it.
Very upset.
Looking through my phone contacts and not a single one I can comfortably express my sorrow to.
Let it pass, inshaAllah.
“I think its important to humanize people and not dehumanize people and I think...”
– Hamza Yusuf (via thalamtnafsee)
Where/when is this from? Since the only lecture I’ve seen him speak about homosexuality was quite the opposite
“While the Quran poses questions, it does not, in my opinion, provide all the...”
– Ziauddin Sardar, Blogging the Quran (via thalamtnafsee)
I remember reading the posts on Blogging the Qur’an, I don’t think they even finished Surutul Baqara… and then they stopped posting.
Shoulda started on Juz 30
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WhoWatchesTheNYPD - The Tumblr →
It exists
“In American today, anti-evolutionism matters because it has become the vanguard...”
– Ken Miller, Biology Professor from Brown University and Roman Catholic, on America’s Darwin Problem (via crookedindifference)
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Rahm Emanuel: Chicago Won't Spy On Muslims →
Rahm Emanuel: Now what, NYC, now what?
Rahm Emanuel: We welcome all evil.
Rahm Emanuel: Yes, I actually said this
Rahm Emanuel: Do I remember who I am?