Archive for December, 2007
Friday, December 28th, 2007
A sad day for Pakistan
I was just minutes away from recording my monthly khutbah for Islamonline and received news about Bhutto’s assassination. While, I personally was never a fan, there was a small sense of hope (amidst the corruption and potential violence) that the upcoming elections would pave some type of positive path for the people of Pakistan.
Pakistan was […]
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
One less dead black African American…
Drop your wallets and put your hand’s in the air…thank you Michael Moore for another thought provoking piece.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LfFfUxBDMDYÂ
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Young Muslim woman newest Rhodes Scholar
http://saleemali.newsvine.com/_news/2007/12/23/1183050-a-scholar-of-substanceÂ
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
me, my sister and worrying
My second sister (the *cough* single one *cough*) and I often steal moments away and talk on msn. We are quite alike. She probably worries more than I do..but at her age and really, until recently, IÂ worried alot. “natural worriers” I guess… Over time, I started learning experientially that it is a weakness in faith […]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Eid Mubarak - Let us not forget the lessons
I just got home from Eid prayer. We went to the mosque about 5 minutes drive away. It really is a beautiful mosque. Old yellow stone, beautifully crafted a vision of older days, when life was probably alot more simple dramatically set against the sprawling towers and cranes that signal the dawn of a new […]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
CD’s to be sold at EID FESTIVAL CNE Toronto
The technological tests seem to keep piling on. No amount of planning accounted for this. The website was fully updated and running well then strangely, all of the most recent updates disappeared. Now, the website is down. I trust that in Allah’s plan it is all for the best. It is not the best thing when we are […]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Waiting to exhale
There are days when the walls of tiredness seem to surrround us. I feel like this past week, all I have been doing is work, work and more work. It never seems to end, nor do I feel like I am catching up. It’s harder having to do this in these beautiful days.
The first 10 […]
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Help stop Climate Chaos
Lets do our part!
Stop Climate Chaos
“If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years
will determine our future. This is the defining moment.†— Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
D8 actions are planned for 34 Canadian cities, 84 countries and […]
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Memories of Indonesia
I am sitting at home engulfed in a pile of marking. As I try to catch up with work, so many memories of Indonesia flood my mind. I have completely fallen in love with what i saw while I was there but even moreso with the people. Their beautiful characters and warm hospitality I think […]