I don’t normally post on this blog from work, but this just has to be said. I was all hyped because I bought some Maggi “chicken-flavored” 2-minute noodles from the halal food store. I usually get another brand of vegetarian noodles from the regular grocery store because their chicken ones are obviously not [...]

We went to the Zainabia today for Majlis. It was given by a Shaykh named Ibrahimi (don’t know his full name, sorry). His talk was very good in that it included the children. They were very much into it, which differs from a lot of majaalis.
Zahra was OK for a while, but [...]

Tomorrow we’re supposed to go to the Zainabia, inshaAllah. They’re having a Ghadir “pot-luck.” I suppose that means we’re supposed to bring food…
Anyway, a sister (don’t remember who) pointed out an interesting book called Ghadir Declaration by a Sunni scholar named Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri. He definitely has an interesting perspective on it [...]

The League of Filipino Students (LFS) have staged protests at the US Embassy:
Indymedia reports: “Public uproar and the resulting joint action by Members of Congress were spurred by the refusal of the US to turn over custody over four US Marines accused of raping a 21-year old Filipina at the former Subic Naval Base [...]

On this day, 18th of Dhul-Hijjah, in between Makkah and Madinah, at a watering area known as Ghadir Khumm, after his final Hajj (pilgrimage), the last Prophet, Muhammad (Allah bless him and grant him peace) delivered a captivating speech to his followers, reminding them of Allah and preparing them for his departure.
When he reached the [...]

I waited until the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day to write this, and I actually considered not writing it at all. It is a difficult subject to approach, and it is one that is quite emotional for me. After all, I am an African American who barely survived the public school [...]

As many may already know, Apple recently announced their first transition to x86 processor-based computers, a high-end laptop replacement for the now retired PowerBook. They have named it “MacBook Pro,” which is not a very enlightened name (not that any of their names are), but this one is particularly McDonald’s sounding (kind of like [...]

Asia Times Online, arguably one of the more “balanced” news media outlets, ran a disturbingly misguided article entitled, “When Even the Pope Has to Whisper.”
The premise of the article is that, despite the West’s admitted attempts at “reforming” the Muslim world in its own image,
” the available facts suggest that the opposite result will [...]

OSNEWS reports that KDE developers have successfully merged Apple’s Javascript Core KJS back into KHTML. (For those of you out of the loop, Apple’s browser, Safari, is built upon the “free software” of KHTML, the rendering engine for the KDE browser, Konqueror).
The goal, by the next release is to have 100% sync with Apples [...]

Eid Mubarak to all of you! We’ve had a good one. We went to the festivities yesterday and prayed at the Zainabia this morning. Alhamdulillah, we live in a wonderful community. Yesterday was nice. I played Scrabble with some good friends of mine and listened to some live African drums [...]