religion

But in the Process… BNW RMDN 20XI Playlist

In ali, Hip Hop, Islam, Music, R&B, religion on 31 July 2011 tagged Ahmad Zahir, Ain't No Grave, Akon, Annie Lennox, Antony and the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, Ariana Delawari, Audioslave, Be Yourself, Beck, Black & Gold, Chamak Challo, Coldplay, Come to Me in the Morning, Common, Corinne Bailey Rae, Depeche Mode, Different Times, Dragonette, Electric Feel, Erykah Badu, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall, Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes, Farida Mahwash, Fight for This Love, Fire in Your New Shoes, Gabriel & Dresden, Googoosh, Hope There's Someone, Indestructible, Into the Fire, John Legend, Johnny Cash, Johnny Met June, Kaskade, Like a Star, Like a Stone, Love Jackson (Original Mix), Madonna, Melanie Fiona, MGMT, Moby, Muse, Niyaz, Pavement Cracks, Pictures of You, PJ Harvey, Porcelain, Precious, Prince Club, Ramadan, Raphael Saadiq, red hot chili peppers, Reshma Gajjar, Robyn, Sam Sparro, Shelby Lynne, Sia, Smashing Pumpkins, Stad Inside Your Love, T-Boz, Talagh, The Cure, The East, The Fire, The Hunt, The Mess We're In, The Roots, The XX, Thirteen Senses, U2, Uprising, Vampire Weekend, VCR, Wake Up Everybody, Walk On, We Used to Wait, Who Is It, Window Seat, X-Static Process, You've Changed, Zindagi Chist with no comments

“God please take me from untruth to eternal truth…Let our knowledge shine and become divine to the world“ The East, Ariana Delawari Somethings are more complicated than they seem “With you beside me / we will have peace” Wake Up Everybody (feat. Common & Melanie Fiona), John Legend & The Roots Somethings are simpler than [...]

‘Jewish Nakba,’ A Misnomer?

In citizenship, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, religion, War on 15 May 2011 tagged food security, Gaza, GDP, Gross Domestic Product, Israel, Jewish Nakba, nakba, Oxfam International, Palestine, Poverty, United Nations, نکبه, West Bank, World Food Programme with no comments

نکبه in Arabic means ‘Catastrophe,’ and since May 1948, the term has been used to describe the forced displacement and dispossession of 700,000 Palestinians from their home by what is now the nation of Israel. What some people may not be aware of however, is that in the twenty year period between 1944 and 1964, [...]

Despite ‘Frequently Visit’ing Afghanistan Ann Marlowe Gets Afghanistan Wrong

In Afghanistan, History, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, religion, War on 5 May 2011 tagged #OBL, Afghanistan, American University, Ann Marlowe, Daoud Sultanzoy, Ghazni, Kabul, Osama Bin Laden, taliban, The Daily Beast with no comments

In writing about the reaction to Osama Bin Laden’s death in Kabul, The Daily Beast’s Anne Marlowe manages to make many missteps resulting in more than one problematic statement about Afghanistan. Marlowe begins by declaring that “there were no sounds of celebration” to mark the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, sorry Afghans [...]

Bill Maher Calls ALL of Islam ‘A Culture of Suicide Bombing’

In Iran, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, religion, TV on 21 March 2011 tagged Al Qaeda, Bill Maher, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Glenn Beck, HBO, Iran, Jihadist, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, McCarthyism, Osama Bin Laden, Peter King, Real Time with Bill Maher, Rep. Keith Ellison, Video, Youtube with no comments

Bill Maher recently invited Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison on Real Time to discuss the recent congressional hearings on radical Islam chaired by Rep. Peter King, which Maher himself said had elements of McCarthyism in it. Of course, Maher did not miss the opportunity to lump “together things that shouldn‘t be lumped together” by “casting a [...]

Onion News Network Exposes TRUE Al Qaeda Plot in US

In comedy, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, religion, TV on 14 March 2011 tagged Al Qaeda, Brooke Alvarez, Concurrent Round Table, Decoy Muslims, FactZone, IFC, Islam, Jihadist, Onion News Network, ONN, Racism, Shelby Cross, Video, Youtube with no comments

“Or an adorable little brown baby jihadist in a stroller“