February 2012
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Is Science-Fiction Racist?
I was reading an article by Gregory Rutledge entitled, “Futuristic Fiction & Fantasy: The Racial Establishment” and came across this quote by Richard Pryor:
“I don’t like movies when they don’t have no niggers in ‘em. I went to see, I went to see “Logan’s Run,” right. They had a movie of the future called “Logan’s Run.”...
January 2012
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Old Time Sci-Fi
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An Atheist vs. An Imam
Atheist: Can your Lord fit the entire universe into an egg without making the egg any bigger and the universe any smaller?
Imam Jafar As-Sadiq: I would like you to look at the sky, and at that bird in the sky, and at that tree, and at all those people who have gathered around us and now look at me.
Atheist: I see them all.
Imam Jafar As-Sadiq: If Allah can fit all of those things inside the tiny pupil of your eye, do you think that he cannot fit the universe into an egg?
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Between Intolerance and Accomodation, Between...
“Written during the last five to six years of al-Ghazali’s life, (Faisal al-Tafriqah) reflects the concerns and frustrations of a man deeply troubled by the debilitating effects of both theological intolerance and theological laissez-faire. While theological intolerance sapped the community’s ability to accommodate plausible theological differences, theological laissez-faire...
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Now, Practically Everybody Is A Customer
“In the last two centuries, our traditional culture has been under increasing pressure from mass culture, a conflict which has reached its greatest intensity in this country. The market for cultural products has steadily broadened until by now practically everybody is a customer. This is something new in history and it has had novel effects. As the masses have become more and more educated,...
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Elegant.
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C7#5b9, C7#5#9, C7b5b9, C7b5#9 - expanding Alt...
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Knowing Which Is Which
اجتهادك فيما ضمن لك و تقصير فيما طلب منك دليل على انطماس البصيرة منك
“Striving for what has been provided [also read ‘not concerning you’] for you while falling short in that which is demanded of you, is proof of the incomprehensibleness of your ability to perceive.” - Ibn ‘Ata Allah.
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“This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like...”
– Turjan of Miir. The Dying Earth by Jack Vance.
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Lord British, written by Kenneth W. Arnold....
Religious Dispatches – Da’wah For Our Children →
Religious Dispatches – Da’wah For Our Children →
A short audio clip while out and about: Marc Manley - Religious Dispatches - Da’wah For Our Children
Living Within Your Means
Living within your means: priceless. For everything else, there’s Mastercard.
December 2011
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Night time in University City. Recorded December...
Masjid Quba’s 2011 Deen Intensive – The Heart →
Masjid Quba’s 2011 Deen Intensive – The Heart →
A talk about the heart as a kick off for Masjid Quba’s 2011 Winter Deen Intensive.
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Field recording from the campus of the University...
Winter Reading List 2012 →
These are the books I hope to read over winter 2012.
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WatchI love the way he says “halal”, with the Italian hand!
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And Now...
Christopher Hitchens shall know who indeed was crazy.
فستبصر ويبصرون بأييكم المفتون
The Heart – A Khutbah at the University of... →
The believer and the heart: how it can be influenced. How it should be protected.
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WatchMuslim life in the NYC.
The Journey Within – M.E.C.C.A. Center’s Annual... →
The journey to Islam is different for each person: for some it takes many years, It is important that we as converts foster an environment that is open and welcoming to our families.
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Penn Center, recorded on December 12th, 2011...
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The Uncritical Bias of Ibn Warraq →
While perusing the book store today I came across another title by the prolific “Muslim” apostate, “Ibn Warraq”. Mr. Warraq has made a career out of not being Muslim. His latest title is Why the West…
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Margari Aziza: The Future →
margariaziza:
While the American Muslim community is relatively young, children comprise a small portion of the America Muslim community, with just 13.1% under the age of 15, compared with 20.2% in the broader population. Women make up 46% percent of the adult Muslim community and roughly half of all…
November 2011
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Field recording from the corner of 34th &...
Mundus Totus Domus Est – All the World is a Home →
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Going To Get Bread. Sound Track to 65, Vol. VI.
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Prophetic Love: A Look At Obedience to Prophet... →
There are so many synonyms, so many names and inflections in this one little word. We are encouraged to extol the Prophet Muhammad. And yet despite this, I see an increasing disconnect between…
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Sounds from the food court, Thanksgiving Eve,...
WatchI should try this at the next Q&A at the masjid.
Chaplain Chats – Nana Asma’u bint Uthman dan Fodio →
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Moral Law & Spirituality
“Islam is a religion of moral law; when the institutions that produce its legal scholars (who are, ideally, also spiritual authorities) are subverted, undercut, or simply insufficiently rigorous, the resulting interpretations of law become irrelevant—or dangerous.” — Haroon Moghul from Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit.
All-American Muslim – Thoughts and Response →
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Football, Rape, Cash: Idolatry
For it is the systematic idolatry of football at Penn State and beyond that is the true culprit—not merely Joe Paterno or the alleged multiple rapist, Jerry Sandusky, or the now dismissed president of the University and his indicted colleagues.
These people were merely the priests of that idolatrous cult. Football brought oceans of prosperity to Penn State, as to other colleges and businesses...
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Sufism for Non-Sufis?
Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandari’s Taj al-‘Arus is the upcoming title by Dr. Sherman Jackson, on Oxford University Press. The book is due out March 14, 2012. Mark your calendars.