Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Sunday, May 27, 2007

New Hotness

I heard about this when it was in the works. When I heard about the idea of a blog that focuses on modern and mostly western Shia Muslim viewpoints (politics, religion, culture, etc) I was immediately interested. I was going to write for them but the film(s) destroyed my free time which I could have spent writing blogs. It's a great idea and has so far been very good.

Check it out

Critical Shia

and a recent favorite entry

Friday, May 18, 2007

upsetting

Heard this on NPR today. It draws quite a realistic picture of what life in Iraq is like right now.

LINK (click listen)

Also, Samarra is suffering after a curfew was imposed on the town on May 6th. BBC quoted an Iraqi aid worker who said, "the humanitarian situation in Samarra is terrible."

Where is the security? Where is the freedom? Where is the oil?

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Saturday, May 12, 2007

this happens

When I was in Florida this last December I noticed quite an anti Muslim sentiment in the air almost where ever I went. Especially since I was with covered Muslim women for the majority of my trip I felt like the chance of me having to scuffle some hick was extraordinarily high.

When I recently saw this it made me shake my head in disappointment and anger.

(Link)

Sunday, May 06, 2007

culmination point


Hours of lost sleep, suffering relationships, bathing, cleaning, and having free time climaxes right here and right now... but I hope this is only the smallest step for my 2 films.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

His book sounds like an interesting read.. peep the interview on VBS