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“You say you want democracy and then you enter into alliances with Islamic fundamentalists.”
“You say you want democracy and then you enter into alliances with Islamic fundamentalists. You say you want human rights, and then you make deals with terrorist murderers … You say feminism, and then you help these men wrap their women’s heads in scarves. You don’t follow your own conscience; you just guess what a… »
Shutting down…
… 3… 2… 1…0… believe me, this has now become bigger than either me or you or any other individual. It’s now a matter for the government and the society at large. May Allah save those whom He wills. Amen.
PS: The art site will continue to function daily… or at least until such time I… »
Author’s book travels the world including Maldives
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A YET to be published book has embarked on an epic trip across the planet travelling with jetsetters to five continents.
I Am, a candid expose of writer Alexander Jackman’s thoughts, has so far been taken to 25 countries by random travellers – including the United States, Peru, South America, the Maldives, Singapore and Amsterdam.
The… »
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the freedom to read
It is disturbing how the Christian right is actually influencing cultural works of America. Down with fundamentalism and extremism in whatever disguises it appears!
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September 26−October 3, 2009
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned… »
Why I want my own Electric Monk
Some people think that BELIEVING is something we do by choice. As Bluebooze says in her latest blog post, The wall is still GREEN!,
…does it not occur to these people that believing something is not a choice that I make (although in their case it seems to be)… First it has to make sense… »
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
A CHSE student recently told me that if a science teacher ever brought up the subject of Evolution, some students in his class would shout down the teacher. Another former CHSE student earlier told me that science teachers skipped the first chapters in Biology, Physics and Chemistry which usually deal with the Big Bang and… »
Women as “fitna”
The word fitna comes from an Arabic verb which means to “seduce, tempt, or lure.” There are many shades of meaning, mostly referring to a feeling of disorder or unrest.
In modern usage, it is used to describe forces that cause controversy, fragmentation, scandal, chaos, or discord within the Muslim community, disturbing social peace and order.
Yet… »
Men, the weaker sex, may disappear altogether
ABC reports: In a new study, researchers say there is a dramatic loss of genes from the human Y chromosome that eventually could lead to its complete disappearance — in the next few millennia. While the Y chromosome’s degeneration has been known to geneticists and evolutionary biologists for decades, the study sheds new light on… »
This time, Church won’t demonize “Da Vinci Code” follow-up “Angels and Demons”
LOS ANGELES — Controversy, if nothing else, sells newspapers and movie tickets.
It worked with Ron Howard’s first film adaptation of a Dan Brown novel, 2006’s “The Da Vinci Code,” and Hollywood is hoping it will work again for their second collaboration, “Angels and Demons,” which opened nationwide yesterday.
Maybe, maybe not. But either way, in Round… »
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- @naafix Actually suppressing may not b good idea. We may need 2 'recognise' chemical 'composition' of emotions while enjoying the feeling :)
- @naafix true... i think suppressing emotion (without losing humanity) can help us stay mentally strong... emotions are for the weak...
- @naafix what's so hard about breaking up, i wonder...
