My Response to Life, and why it sucks.: In Terry Jones Vs Islamic Extremists

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Life, and why it sucks.: In Terry Jones VS Islamic extremists; I side with Terry. , says this 21 yr old, who calls herself by infidel, and says she is "a troubled psychology student". Here, here, I can't argue with that; she probably knows herself better than I do (or not..) I think she's just immature. I tried to tell her to grow up, but she doesn't want to get advice from someone with maturity.

40,000 Indonesians demonstrate, it's freedom of speech; they get freedom of speech, just like anyone else

as long as their government allows..I'm all for that. I don't care if you're gay or feminist, you can talk or protest, or demonstrate, if you live in a free country.

Indonesia is the most populous Muslim majority country on the planet, so what if 40,000 people march?

What's the problem...I'm thinking, this young woman is like so many, who only wants freedom of speech for herself (so she can "rant" or "rave" about her vagina, and her infections, as she has done in one of her blogs)

How will that improve the world, I want to ask... because she says that that is what she really cares about...constructive?

I had a decent comment to add to some other comments. I noticed that some other well said comments, like one from an obviously  kind of Christian guy, which was much fairer than many of the things she wrote, was removed.

Overall she comes off sounding self-centred, a pretender, and basically isn't being totally upfront; typical "infidel". Listen, you can sprinkle your blogs with some nice sounding sentences, on the surface, you'll maybe look okay, but I think underneath, you just want to vent your frustration at people who you feel don't deserve the rights that you claim you want for everyone (she's really "against injustice in society").

I noticed some slight changes to her blog, too. For one thing, she added (unless I missed it the first couple of times) a remark about women rape victims being harmed by a society, the people who believe that women who wear revealing clothing deserve to be attacked: a dliberate attempt by her to steer the conversation away from some of what she said. When people added comment they were about the issue of many Indonesians'call for a blasphemy law, and the 40,000 strong demonstration for that (they want the law to have blasphemers beheaded). Women's dress was not even mentionned, nor how some people (who is she suggesting?) certain men, or a group might excuse rape by blaming the victim.

Movie Review - Born On The Fourth Of July

The Meaning of Home and Country

“I just felt like I’m home…like maybe we’re home”, is the last line Ron Kovic, or Ronny says in the movie, “The Fourth of July”.  Kovic is played by Tom Cruise, a veteran actor by the time. Maybe it’s one of his best movies. There’s some sex, and of course violence. The story moves between Ron’s last year of high school in 1967, his enlistment in the war, and the war 13,000 miles away in Vietnam, where he as platoon leader, leads the fight, only to erroneously kill  village women and children, and hauntingly as well, one of the young newly enlisted men in his platoon, Charlie Wilson.

Then the heroic fight he makes, when he returns to his homeland, country and hometown two years later, only to find that he is not so much respected, as maligned by many citizens, as the tide against the war is beginning to change many Americans’ feelings about the justice of the war against the Vietnamese. At one point, he even says that the Vietnamese are brothers and have been fighting for their independence for 100 years.

The most poignant parts of the movie are his meetings with his “sweet heart”, Donna, the first time she sees him as a paraplegic, after his return, and when he tells Charlie Wilson’s family (parents, and wife, who has a young child by Charlie who never met his father), that he was responsible for their son’s/husband’s death.

One of the most unnerving moments, is when his mother tells him to leave the house. He begins to blame her openly for his situation, the fact that he went to war and disabilities (physical as well as mental). He escapes temporarily to Mexico, where he tries to drown his memories of war atrocities and his gunning down of Charlie Wilson.

Finally, he returns to face all his fears. The movie ends in 1979, when he has become an author, and has come to accept his lot in life, moved passed his disability to become an author, and important spokesperson for the movement against an unjust war. Nixon will be elected next President of the United States of America.

Others are always stupid, and not funny

Lessons on Day two -

Oh please.. I am only writing this because I am up before ten this morning and had a pretty late night (last night)...then I wake up and think I'll edit my profile page, only...

I decided to do some reading other ppl's blogs (just a little). It happens that the first one I read sets me thinking again (as often people on the net do) about why ppl can be so self-centred? You are writing a blog; shouldn't it be beneficial to whoever might read it (in a perfect world)? But we live with stuff like this daily..the self-centred young women (21! how much has she yet not experienced? You know, you may end up falling in love and marrying a Muslim someday..you wouldn't be the first! )



REGRETS; ever say something and wish you hadn't? We ALL have and then swore we wouldn't do it again. But that's life. Of course, I easily concure the main point of what the young woman was saying (but with a little editing), that SOME muslims overreact (may or may not be an understatement depending on each individual  Muslim's reaction ) to provocations. By the way, you know when you have a bad hair day, or PMS? Well, Muslims have days like that, too. Sometimes, a person just has had enough irritation for one day, or an entire bad week, and your comment, Qur'an burning frenzy, or whatever is the last straw; it's human nature ( Muslims for the most part, knowing them as I do now, are mostly rational, intelligent human beings) to make quick judgements, rude gestures, or even 'freak out' occasionally. Not everyone is a pillar of calm strength, or perfection. Sometimes rational and intelligent Muslims also say incoherent, ridiculous, or inflammatory hateful things because they are caught off guard. It doesn't make a bad person, only a regretful -about -that- one- moment person.



Think, it's not the very guarded, or experienced people that get all the media attention. It's not the person who has "thought it through" and then didn't 'act out', or the person who was too embarrassed to say anything about his stupid friends' comment to somebody, that get's noticed. Extremists are a different issue altogether. But why blog about them, only?



I don't like ppl saying, "I hate this and I hate that", either. It's not constructive criticism. If you want to change the world, better everyone's experience on the planet, then think of more creative ways to express what you TRULY feel.



Any regrets, yet?

Not Everything Is Sexy

excerpt from a previous blog on MyIslamFeed by DD

In 1984, I guess life is a lie, a complete and utter lie… girls in blue sashes are not really "girls", they're not like other girls…not sexy.

My mother is coming to visit, I'm happy and…nervous. Why, nervous? My mother is 76 years old and smokes…

…I'm thinking of a poster I saw once in grade ten in the English class room; it reminds me (now as then) of my mother.  My mother was a smoker then, she still is…never tried to quit, as far as I know. The poster says, "Smoking is [not] sexy"; the woman in the poster is 50ish with dark lank hair. She's not so old…but has unsightly dark bags under her eyes, a gaping mouth, lots of smoker's wrinkles, and looks sexless/genderless. Regardless of the health risks, smoking stinks! (Read on)

My mother has been smoking for over 40 years, maybe 45 years…she is 76 and still smoking. Don't ever start smoking, is my first advice; second advice, stop smoking as soon as possible; stop at once, you'll thank me if you do!(If you're still young and beautiful).

Imagine if you could see your before and after pictures NOW?!! Believe me you'd kick the smoking habit.

I'm afraid that I'll be shocked to see my mother after not having seen her in many years. I'm nervous that I'll be seen in public with her…but that's wrong! She's my mother after all! Whatever qualms I have, will have to be set aside…being the irrational fears only of an admittedly selfish, selfcentred woman in midlife...

This brings me to the topic of words…and people's use of the word "sexy".  As I was reading a while back in a famous person's blog, or tweets...language changes with "newspeak" (what's called usage)…this is nothing new. Languages always keep evolving.  It is the nature of languages and of society; because it's the people who use language (as opposed to any other species of animal/man/ape). I'm a Muslim creationist (as opposed to believing in the creationism as per the Bible I believe in the Qur'anic version of events; including the 'Big Bang' neatly described therein), not an evolutionist, I think language proves that ppl are ppl and apes are apes, and the two never were one. Kind of like men are always men, women are women, except for some children who are born with male and female organs, but take one look and usually you know a boy or a girl; best leave the internal stuff to the doctors…

 Being humans we are rather fickle, I think.

 Around this time, we are at a point where we could be losing much of our language, with the need for more and more tech in our lives, to communicate with family or friends, to keep old friends close, to ignite new relationships it's a must! Ipod, etc, etc. (I can feel my China Wall of resistance going up again!..) Only a few years ago, it happened that words became not "gender- specific", which is a good thing. Better to have a female doctor, or a mailwoman; I think this works for most Muslims, in fact, and proves in a way that Islam never was against females, or women's equality.

Why is everything sexy all of a sudden? The answer seems obvious, like a red rose means love, and a white

one means friendship…Everything is NOT sexy! But people, especially celebrities these days… everywhere one goes… reads a newspaper, a blog, or sees an interview someone famous is saying, (something) is quote, unquote SEXY??

It's in vogue to do that, simply "following a fad". "The more things change the more things stay the same" couldn't be more true in 2009 than 1989 (the year I embraced Islam).  :)

I saw a video on YouTube, the Junoon band (an Arab, or Pakistani band, perhaps) and Salman, one of the members, the ringleader according to the description presented, but a woman, perhaps an interviewer, or one of the band members as well, an overweight middle aged woman, older in a sexy kind of way actually, kind of overpowers the conversation. They are friendly, yes…sit eating at a very nicely decorated table, in a wonderful looking room, then begin discussing the Qur'an…

Think for a minute (pause), a group are guest with another famous person, perhaps an interviewer, they feel relaxed, at ease, and perhaps with some pre dinner drinks, a little giddy…

I caution people not to discuss the Qur'an without knowledge; it's very dangerous for one's faith; especially taking important religious matters, and issues lightly. 

…the talk turns to the woman reading Qur'an one night, and how she describes what she was reading at the time, as "Sexy". Other members, probably 'Salman', laugh; he is seated on her right, while she is at the head of the table. Their shameless laughter surrounding a book which Muslims hold dear is thoughtless and perverse…or isn't it??

Some things just are not possible. It's not possible to call a holy book such names, or give such descriptions to holy books (even with all the comparisons or contrasts Muslims or Christians make about each other's holy book, which I don't personally want to do; I think it's been overdone, or at least everyone has heard these comparisons, the information is already out there, so enough said…)

This is a misuse of the language, in that language is meant to convey a message…a message which should reflect one's true perception…or else, reflect what one is feeling. But, if for example a person lies to his wife, and tells her she is "ugly "is unfair and (maybe also) not a reflection of reality. Now in courts of law this could be considered "emotional abuse", which proves that in a society the rules dictate what is and what isn't acceptable. It's not acceptable to use random or precise words at will to disparage, hurt or otherwise harm others: lying, defamation, and so on are all considered illegal, in fact.

But who, society, or the individual is supposed to dictate to "us" what kind of language, or what use of language is proper, legal, illegal, etc.? Apparently there are laws in place already, in some cases…such as "emotional abuse", "defamation of character", etc. Probably, more types will be added in future, as new legal battles arise, and new precedents are set…let's hope it will be for the betterment of society and to facilitate good will and harmony among the people and groups. (Remember how hated the word "nigger" was, how controversial the word, "black" became, and how "colored" was "in", then it was "out")

Could calling holy books "Sexy", or certain verses "Sexy" become an issue of legal rights for some against others' claims of 'freedom of speech', or freedom of "liespeak"? Just as defamation of character is wrong, could defamation of the character of a book be wrong also?

Finally, could Muslims, in the future, have some solid ground at last in the fight against Salman Rushdie's, "the Satanic Verses", for defaming the character (it is a holy revered book) of the Holy Qur'an?  

I can count on one thing for sure, my mother will never change: beauty (may be) only skin deep, but mothers are always the most 'beautiful' ppl we know personally…

I'm really looking forward to this family visit…Mom, I love you!