… with the relaunch that is. Most of the technical behind the scenes aspects are done - finally. I look forward to putting together the remaining pieces of the puzzle as soon as I can. There have been enough repeated delays already.
Please stay tuned, and ignore any funny things you see with the current default design.
After close to three years of generalist blogging, this place will be moving towards a more specialized focus: Heresy, in all its beautiful progressive glory.
More later.
Salam. Peace. Shalom.
SudaneseThinker
SudaneseThinker
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Sounds interesting. Long live neo-Mu’tazilah !!!
Oh, believe me. It will be.
I can imagine. You have already got yourself the title of a Sudanese Zionist. What else do you have to lose?
Drima
Heresy, historically, as I see it… has been primarily a very good thing. I think most heresy has simply been somebody with ballz going against “the Man”…afterall…it is typically “the Man” who defines heresy…which is typically defined as going against “the Man”… By that definition…I typically love heresy…as long as the heretic does not end up becoming “the Man”…I think of Martin Luther and many others.
Good luck…give ‘em hell.
Hahahah…gotta love the way you said that out loud!!
Sheema…
Thanks…I actually re-read it and can’t believe I am bright enough to come up with something that clever…even a broken clock is right twice a day I guess.
السلام عليكم
موقع أكثر من رائع شكرا لكم
موضوع جميل جدا يستحق القراءه
يوتيوب فيديو فرحتي
http://www.fr7ty.com
منتديات نسائيه
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Mmmm, heresy! I like heresy.
You’re going to do an ‘alim and turn the blog into a technical discussion of fiqh, though, are you?
Dear Drima,
I’m the blog intern at Oxford University Press, and have become a reader of your blog. Your post about mooncakes was such an interesting and funny way of looking at the art of blogging.
Over at the Oxford University blog is a recent post that I think you and your readers might want to check out. It concerns the way the Nobel Prize has been perceived in the Muslim community throughout history. The author of this post, David Fraser, is also the author of Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam- The First Muslim Nobel Scientist.
http://blog.oup.com/2009/01/islam-nobel-prize/
We were hoping that you would also provide us with your contact information, e-mail and anythhing else you’d like, so that we can add you to our database.Thank you, and if you need any more information, please let me know!
Megan Branch
OUP Blog Intern
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New York, New York 10016
megan.branch@oup.com
Megan…
I read the piece by Fraser…look…everybody just needs to read my first post here… and save the trouble of reading the article.
Apart from the peace price, which is apparently given to random people, Nobel prices have to be earned. Sadat earned his peace price, Arafat did not. Arafat received his price for ending a war he and his uncle started and he didn’t even end it, he merely promised he would and then ultimately didn’t. That was enough to get the price: start a war, promise to end it, and we don’t even care if you do.
It is indeed a problem that the Muslim world produces so few world-class scientists, but that’s a problem of the Muslim world, or should be. Jews are over-represented in many areas, all of them areas that require a good education, a strong sense of reality, and a clear rejection of superstition. Jews are traditionally very good at all three of those. Today’s Muslims are not.
I would say the last two are very much open to questioin
“I would say the last two are very much open to question”
Perhaps. But in my experience Jews are _generally_ not as much into superstition as other people and _usually_ know what’s going on in the world (and the difference between fantasy and reality).
Drima dude, what happened to your book?
Andrew, you know Jews who are mighty different from the ones I know
Andrew….
“a strong sense of reality”
When they take their medication…yes generally true..j
Not supersitious…have you ever gone to an Orthodox shul or met my mother…?
Abu Sa’ar, I meant compared to other peoples. However, knowing one’s weaknesses is a strength.
Howie, Again, compared to others. In the other thread Amru has just pointed out the strong sense of reality among Israelis, who, in contrast to other peoples, generally know about the existence of victims on both sides of the conflict.
Andy…
Quit making excuses…too much Guiness last night…
Or maybe not enough
Yes…point taken
Oh damn…did that last sentence have 13 letters?????
Crap
Drima and the rest, you should check this out: A muslim woman saying very loudly that the Muslim World is responsible for the clash of civilizations. Memorable quote: Have you ever seen a Jew blew himself up in a German restaurant?
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=nul
Maybe compared to the Arabs/Muslims, the Jews have an excellent sense of reality, no one can beat this conspiratorial paranoia that’s raging on the other side of our border. But compared to other nations I would define the Jewish mind as a kind of creative insanity. In fact, I think it applies to many first class scientists, so it’s no wonder the Jews excel at this stuff.
“Have you ever seen a Jew blew himself up in a German restaurant?”
Poland and Russia occupied and annexed large parts of Germany after World War 2. The German population of those areas were expelled. They didn’t flee war, they were expelled after the war and replaced with Polish and Russian settlers.
Following the usual logic I, as a German citizen, would now have the right to fire missiles into Polish schools and shoot Russians on sight. After all, I’d be the “resistance”.
(My actual opinion regarding German claims to lands annexed by Poland is the same as my opinion regarding Syrian claims to the Golan Heights annexed by Israel. That same opinion makes me, respectively, a politically correct German as well as a radical Zionist Jew. Odd, that.)
AB…
I live in the USA…hell…look out…here comes a rocket…looks like a Tomahawk…
Howie,
I was born and grew up under foreign occupation. We even had the blockade, the siege, and a wall around our territory.
Here is what I learned:
1. If you don’t fire rockets at the surrounding country, they probably won’t shoot at you a lot. (I figured this out by not firing rockets at that country.)
2. If you don’t attack occupation forces, they probably won’t fight you. (I figured this out by not attacking members of the occupying armies. Sometimes I didn’t even throw rocks. Actually, I never threw rocks at them.)
3. If you manage to get a visa for the surrounding country, try entering it without a bomb belt around your waist, even if the country is likely to have lots of schools filled with children you could easily blow up. (One way to make sure that didn’t happen was VERY strict border controls enforced by the surrounding country. Another way to make sure that didn’t happen was not wearing bomb belts around waists.)
If anybody else has any questions about how to live in an occupied territory surrounded by a hostile country, feel free to ask me.
AB…
The American Indians figured it out…they opened 91 casinos in California alone and in a year made everything back they had lost in gambling, booze money and hookers…
The Palestinians started the same trick in Jericho…and then blew it all to shit.
Drima…
Like the new look…looks kind of Persian to me and the Star of David all over the place gives it kind of a Sudanese Zionist feel.
Looks interesting dude…
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