Archive for January, 2008

Stabilizing Afghanistan

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I find it amazing that western “analysts” keep pounding their heads on their expensive wooden desks because they cannot figure out what is going wrong in Afghanistan. Why is the Taliban still fighting them after all of this time? Why is NATO unable to tame them? Why is al-Qa’idah still entrenched there?
It […]

Ya Husayn

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

‘Ashura is not a time only of sadness.  It is not a time in which Muslims should remember defeat.  It is not a time in which Muslims should be divided.  Imam Husayn (peace be upon him) was the imam of Islam for all Muslims of his time.  No one, even the enemies of Islam, would […]

My take on KDE4

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

KDE4 was released last week, and I’ve delayed posting my thoughts on it, hoping that I would find solutions to the glaring problems that I experienced.  As of yet, I have not.  I understand that the KDE developers did not intend this to be a “finished” released.  Unfortunately, calling it a new release, announcing it, […]

From Vietnam to Iraq

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

As Chuck D from the rap group Public Enemy predicted in 1998:
“F**kin’ with Saddam will bring a new Saigon…”
Truer words have rarely been spoken.