Is Yusuf Estes Muslim?

Pet Peeves

I have some things that get me peeved; it means that my day isn’t completely ruined by them, but that I get “an itch” (the same feeling as when you want to scratch an itch on your body) to do something about what peeved me. For example, I wrote about robots and androids, a long time ago, when I had a blog connected to my Windows Live TM or Windows Live R.

One of my less troublesome pet peeves is that I don’t know and can’t remember what I’m supposed to put at the end of words connected to a registered trademark or words and other things with copyright. - As in the example in the first paragraph (above). Where do I find out about this? The thing is, it isn’t even “bothersome” because I’ve never done anything about this, except attempt to hide my ignorance. I have never been motivated enough to search it on Google (the trademark owners and everyone else know who they are.)

Another of my pet peeves is that most everyone’s websites look better than mine. I am currently following a few blogs, one of them being Yvonne Ridley’s “From Soho 2 Silo” (type Soho, and surprisingly, it isn’t in the computer’s dictionary!) I guess I can live with that.

I don’t particularly like what I have done with my blog, though I think the cloud app is a nice touch, and I like my Mecca Live feed, or video stream (located on the bottom of my blog’s page).It’s not really mine, I just embedded it onto my blog from another location.

But I am going to defend my blog here, because I think at least, it is honest. (Read previous post, or post connected with this idea, about dishonesty or how some websites deliberately (try to) mislead the public or visitors to their website, or blog.

If you hate someone, just come out and say it, dammit!!… Probably the website I mention today by MWFJ is just one example of many.

Also, I don’t like when people say “I hate” this or “I hate” that, or “I hate” someone (LOL)

But seriously, there is enough pain and suffering in the world without this. Hate is a strong word. Those people would do better to think of other ways to express how they feel about something or someone, without resorting to the “H” word.

The final one I’ll mention, although this doesn’t close the book on what I get peeved about, (nor are these necessarily my most troublesome peeves) is trying to reply back to people on the internet, sometimes it is just impossible. Maybe my internet connection is too slow, sometimes the upload is slow, but the download is still moving (albeit very slowly). I’ve noticed that when the upload was zero I couldn’t comment on a video (or something else) Answering emails or replying to comments to me, isn’t being rerouted to the right place? Or there is something I’m not aware of, or a simple way to reply to others which I haven’t figured out.

If you like this blog, you might like “???” (Edit - I’ll post a link here when I find the post I want to connect to).

(Probably people might get peeved when they see that I have not edited or revised something like a direct quote in a post.)

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I will take this opportunity to ask others to share my previous post about lying websites, e.g. the ones connected to Muslim Witnesses for Justice (MWFJ). DO NOT go to their website or download their Pdf - you are just helping spread their message if you do (Unless you agree with them, in which case I have nothing else to say to you right now.) If you like Yusuf Estes, share my blog, too.

Or better yet, share your favorite Islamic videos and websites (by him).

The “UPDATE”

Currently, it is my thinking that a lot of people don’t know anything about what said group (MWFJ) has to say, so it is counter intuitive to bring it up again, but I am doing this as a public service, so you know. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, even on my blog. I can also make mistakes and have. Sometimes on my channel or here I will tell you or correct a previous mistake. I might write a separate post clarifying something or correcting something and also do the same on my channel’s (Diamondraw4Real) discussion page, or in a video’s comments, etc. (Also) elsewhere on the net.

I’ve been wondering what to write about recently, until this morning when I read some of the feeds (on my other computer) which I haven’t looked at for the longest time, and discovered that Muslim Witnesses For Justice actually are against Yusuf Estes because of things he may or may not have said or meant in some comments, or in some videos. (I had thought they were in support of him – as you would know if you’ve read the previous post)

Whether Yusuf Estes apologized or not for anything which he might have said doesn’t concern me as much as the fact that there is a ‘witch hunt’ or an ‘inquisition’ to have him ‘blacklisted’. Some would probably like him expelled from the ummah; I think this is going to extremes, and isn’t right. There is a point when you have to live and let live, no matter what your personal beliefs.

Boot Straps

I have many ideas to work with, and notes to type out or revise – it shouldn’t be long before I am back writing and posting regularly to my blog. So, there is a lot to write about, and that’s never a problem for bloggers.

I have had a real problem with motivation, partly due to events this past summer and also because I haven’t been balancing personal and work related matters as well as I should or could. But I still want to give priority to writing blogposts so I will try harder to commit to publishing some posts on a regular basis.

Finally, I want to mention that I’ve been working on a book, which I might do as an e-book – or I might publish it as chapters on the internet. Charles Dickens book(s) was (were) published in newspapers as separate chapters (e.g. Tale of Two Cities or Hard Times) before it (they) was (were) published as a complete work(s). Of course, I won’t publish all of it, but only excerpts, to find out what readers think. This is a big “might”. Just thinking about it makes me stress. I know any time now I will see an ad about how to publish my work as an e-book. That’s how cookies work, and it is both helpful and intrusive at the same time.