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I love it!  Regardless of what you think of Hugo Chavez, you have to admit that the man says what he means and means what he says.
“The US President (George W. Bush) made an atomic bomb threat,” Chevez said on Thursday, referring to Bush’s war rhetoric against Iran.
“In other words, he’s threatening a third world […]

Israel is going ahead with plans to shut off electricity to Gaza.
Collective punishment.  Sounds a bit like Nazi Germany doesn’t it?  Their oppressors became their teachers.

Let me be (perhaps) the first one to say that I am slightly concerned about the upcoming KDE release (4.0).  The applications are running very well on Beta 3.  I’m impressed with the amazing speed and response of applications, the new application launcher, the interface, etc.
Nevertheless, I am concerned about one thing: Plasma.  It looks […]

The concept is foreign to Islam.
It is reported that Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said:
Truthfulness is a light which radiates its reality in its own world: it is like the sun, from whose reality everything seeks light without any decrease occurring in this reality. A truthful person, in fact, is a man who […]

I’ve started on the third book of The Golden Scrolls series.  I know you’re probably thinking, “What happened to the second?”  Well, it’s done, but I’ve vowed not to publish it until I get a big publisher for the series, insha`Allah.  So, in the meantime, I’ll keep writing until the series is finished.  The second […]

There are those who wear pants but no shirts and those who wear shirts but not pants.  Those who wear only pants, take Islam but reject sufism.  And those who wear only shirts, take sufism but reject Islam.  In reality, there is no separation between the two.  Sufism is the heart of Islam.

No, don’t get excited.  I’m not announcing it.  I’m just thinking about the preparations.  I never really thought of preparing for it when I was younger.  Eid was just the prayer after Ramadan…and maybe a brunch.  Other than that, I didn’t actually do much.  Now, with a family of four, Eid is an event.  The […]

I just finished an article for OneUmmah.net on morality.  It’s the first one I’ve finished in several months.  Anyway, I am missing one reference, so I started searching my hadith books for it.  In the process, I stumbled upon this hadith:
Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) narrated that once a man came to the […]

I decided to give the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) operating system and desktop environment (called Sugar) a test run.  They have a live CD available on their site, and I used VirtualBox to run it.  You can click on the image below to see the rest of my snapshots.  Interestingly, the “window manager” is […]