Turkish attempt at revising hadith

27Feb08

“Turkey is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam – and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion.”
Click here for the full BBC News article.
***update on this coming…***

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Potentials for ‘Morning Views’

26Feb08

I’ll start doing this weekly. It will hopefully serve me well when Friday comes around. The news/talk station I work for has a segment called ‘Morning Views’ during the Friday morning show where local paper/tv/radio journalists come together to hash out their favorite stories of the week. I ususally go for the wierd ones.
Male spiders play [...]

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ana la atakellem al arabi

26Feb08

I once knew a professor who fell in love with me. It was quite a surprise and the way he broke it to me was incredibly inopportune. In the cafeteria of a library, somewhere in between the idafa’s and nunation’s of Arabic level 2, he asked me if my family followed dowry customs. He didn’t like the idea of a [...]

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depths of awareness

26Feb08

The man who recognizes his wants and desires multiple times and is satisfied by merely achieving them is a man who has gained and mastered those wants. But the man who recognizes his want and desire once, and is not satisfied until he understands what the want means to who he is, what he is, where he [...]

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Tags: desire, man, want

the queen

24Feb08

for some reason, desi aunties love this stuff. 00:28 would be how I make my mother blush. 00:32 would be some elder ‘I’m past the age of modesty’ aunty who’s been waiting for someone to ask her to dance. lol.

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Tags: bellydance, soheir zaki