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The next 30 days – no food during the daylight hours
The month of Ramadan starts tomorrow. For those who don’t know it’s the month where Muslims fast from dawn till dusk every day for 30 (or 29) days. Usually there is a grand feast (or feasts) every night, but that’s not the “correct” way of doing it. I love this month because every weekend it’s a big party with my family. At the end of the month there is the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday where we have even grander feast and celebrate by giving gifts to each other usually just to the kids.
Anyways, I’m not really worried about not eating food. What I’m worried about is not being able to play Starcraft 2 (or not being able to play as much as I would like). During this month, we’re suppose to be better people and do good charity and good works instead of wasting time doing “non-beneficial” activities. Usually I try my best to do more “beneficial” actions instead of just playing games or watching tv. We’ll see how it goes.
At least I can work on some web dev projects I’ve been wanting to get to. Maybe I’ll make some grand changes to HalalTube or HalalTunes.
ShoutReel development will definitely be the main priority this month.
The only brave Congressmen and Congresswomen to stand up against the US Government’s support of Israel’s war on Gaza
On January 9, 2009 there was a vote for the following bill:
Recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza, reaffirming the United States’ strong support for Israel, and supporting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
We all know this bill had nothing to do with defending Israel against attacks from Gaza. We all know this is not supporting any peace-process but helping the State of Israel continue to use American taxes to kill the people of Gaza. The following men and women of Congress were the only ‘nay’ voters to the above bill.
- Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio (D) – http://kucinich.house.gov/
- Congresswoman Gwen Moore of Wisconson (D) – http://www.house.gov/gwenmoore/
- Congressman Ron Paul of Texas (R) – http://www.house.gov/paul/
- Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California (D) – http://www.house.gov/waters/
- Congressman Rick Rahall of West Virginia (D) – http://www.rahall.house.gov/
Please contact them and thank them for their ‘nay’ vote.
Here is the full listing of the voting results of the bill.
This should be shown at the Superbowl!
Warning: Contains foul language.
This is really sad. I am an American Muslim and I feel horrible about this. How can these idiots be a member of the US military? Where is the respect, the dignity and the honor they claim to have. They are like the bullies who drop of out high school and become drug and alcohol addicts not US soldiers! What a disgrace!
Every American should see this. This should be shown as a commercial during the Superbowl.
Campbell Brown – “So what if Obama was an Arab or Muslim!”
Thank you Campbell Brown and CNN for this! I really appreciate this as a Muslim American.
Eid Mubarak!
Whether you did it Tueday, Wednesday or Thursday, Eid Mubarak! May Allah (swt) accept your fasts and grant you all jannah. May Allah (swt) allow you to enjoy this festive day with your family and friends.
Taqallah minna wa minkum
Sponsored an Orphan
Alhamdulillah! My wife and I sponsored an orphan through Islamic Relief. We just recieved the bio data and photo of the young child we sponsored. Due to privacy laws and policies of orphan sponsorhip we can’t share details, but I’d want to point out the blessing of sponsoring an orphan especially since it was not expensive at all.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
“I and the caretaker of the orphan will enter Paradise together like this, raising (by way of illustration) his forefinger and middle finger jointly, leaving no space in between.” [Sahih al-Bukhari]
Wallahi, when you receive the biodata info about the young child, your heart just softens up and you want to sponsor as much orphans as possible. The cost is about 2-3 monthly cable or cell phone bills depending on your usage. In other words it varies beteen $200-$500.
Click here to sponsor an orphan. If you can’t then make the intention, inshaAllah.
Will Smith, Muhamamd Ali & 9/11/01
May God protect the innocent around the entire world. Ameen!
Imam Warith Deen Muhammad (1933-2008)
May Allah be pleased with him. May Allah forgive him. May Allah open the doors of jannah for him. Ameen!
Who was Imam Warith Deen Muhammad?
- People of Faith: Warith Deen Muhammad – PBS
Short biography - Biography of Imam Warith Deen Muhammad – Atlanta Masjid of al-Islam
- Articles by Imam Warith Deen Muhammad
Tributes to him on his death from around the blogosphere:
- Imam Dawud Walid
- Zaytuna Institute – Sh. Hamza Yusuf & Imam Zaid Shakir
- Imam Suhaib Webb
- MuslimMatters.org – Sh. Yasir Qadhi, Sh. Yasir Birjas and others
- Sh. Faraz Rabbani
- W. D. Muhammad – A Witness to True Islam – By John Esposito
- A tribute to Imam Warith Deen Muhammad – IslamCrunch
I will update this post as I find more links, inshaAllah.
Peter King (R-NY) Gets Owned By Muslim on CNN
Go Azeem!
NYC Subways will feature Ads about Islam
EDIT: The embed code was deactiviated, so here is the direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWuXIO2v5xQ
This is pretty cool. I’m sure a lot of Islam haters will be very pissed that Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) will be advertising on the largest subway system in the world.
Here is what the ad will look like:
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