Fatherhood

I do not like the metaphor of country as mother. If at all, a country is more like a child than a mother.

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A Bad Government Can Not Rule over a Honorable People.

They will not let them. Nor can a good government survive when people they rule over are dishonorable.

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Corporate Media

What is wrong with the mainstream media is not that it gives out wrong opinions. What is wrong is that it gives out the wrong facts. Wrong facts give rise to wrong perception, and wrong perception leads to wrong opinion.
This I say for those who say “What’s wrong if they got it wrong? you can [...]

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An Interview with Lena Khan

I talked to Lena Khan a long time ago immediately after she won the One Nation contest for IJTEMA.NET.

As we have not gotten rid of the annoying bug there, I shall publish it here, now. For some reason, the podcast that we wanted never materialized. Therefore we are publishing a concize transcript of the [...]

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Salaam

Anyone still around?

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Absence

I shall be unable to access internet for the coming two months or so. Will miss this place.

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Is Science Larger Than Life?

Whoever agrees, hopefully will lend themselves to studies in live human brain.
Their brains shall be cut up to learn about how brain works. Both Science and Humanity stands to gain from that experiment. It’s a win-win.

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Origin of Conflict: Islam vs West?

Neither the Islamic World nor the Western World are monoliths. They don’t even belong to the same class. Islam is a religion. West hardly is. More damaging to the idea is the fact that many westerners are Muslims.
The phrase, “Islam vs West,” unjustly sweeps every person, every idea and every ideology in the West under [...]

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Tie the Camel First

It is known from a famous Hadith that when a man who lost his camel came to the Prophet. The prophet asked him to tie the camel first and then leave it to Allah.
Isn’t it so very often we use the excuse that because everything is in the discretion of Allah, we don’t need [...]

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Seven Fives

Blame it on Sporadic.
List 5 things that you want to say to people but never will. Don’t say who they are.

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