Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
Friday, June 11, 2021
shill / why i hate saturn
Tuesday, June 08, 2021
the handmaid's tale and scientology (part three)
This is actually an older link but I'm honestly a bit late thinking about this so I'm going to post it anyway. This is actually about a scene from the first season of The Handmaid's Tale. So apparently other people out there are are drawing connections between the content of the show and the faith and practice of Scientology.
Tony Ortega: Elisabeth Moss in this week’s ‘Handmaid’ sure sounded like FBI testimony about Scientology
Sunday, June 06, 2021
another possible scientology connection to the handmaid's tale
At the end of season 3 episode 2 there is an odd sequence. Emily is an ex-Handmaid who has spent years trapped in Gilead while her Canadian wife and son managed to escape across the border. At the end of season 2 she manages to escape across the border but she is still too traumatized to reconnect with family so she's living with June's husband and her friend Moira. At the end of the episode in question, the show spends several minutes showing us Emily going to an optometrist.
We don't really see her have any particular emotional breakthrough except after she is fitted with glasses she finally summons the courage to call her wife.
What possible connection might there be between Scientology and eyesight? Is correcting one's eyesight symbolically connected to being "spiritually" clear? Perhaps.
Tony Ortega: Scientology and Eyesight
Friday, June 04, 2021
scientology and the handmaid's tale
Vice: Scientologists Really, Really Hate Psychiatrists
Silent birth, sometimes known as quiet birth, is a birthing procedure advised by L. Ron Hubbard and advocated by Scientologists in which "everyone attending the birth should refrain from spoken words as much as possible" and where "... chatty doctors and nurses, shouts to 'PUSH, PUSH' and loud or laughing remarks to 'encourage' are avoided". According to Scientology doctrine, this is because "any words spoken are recorded in the reactive mind and can have an aberrative effect on the mother and the child." Hubbard believed that breaking the silence during childbirth with words could adversely affect the child later in life
Tony Ortega: Scientology's fundamental feature: the thousand-year stare
Tony Ortega: Scientology Starts Out as Staring Contests
Wikipedia: Training Routines (Scientology)
Fans Can’t Stop Joking About Those June Close-Up Scenes on The Handmaid’s Tale
Thursday, June 03, 2021
Monday, May 17, 2021
Sunday, May 16, 2021
"if the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow."
resurrection?
I realize I haven't been posting with any kind of regularity. InshaAllah, I'll try to change that up, at least a little. Especially with COVID lockdowns, police shootings, now trouble in Palestine and other more personal stuff I'm way too stuck in my own head. I need some kind of healthy self-expression. And Facebook has been getting toxic and addictive lately.
I have some novel / novella / graphic novel ideas I want to work on. Also I've been too caught up in religious arguments on other people's pages lately. I feel like I might benefit from just putting together my own thoughts on my own terms and sharing them. Even if it is only to get them out and let them go.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
i want you back - sabrina ali jamal-eddine
I just saw this amazing spoken word artist at a tiny local open mike.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Friday, June 01, 2018
blackface in miami
Friday, May 11, 2018
things that make you go hmmmm..... ?
Friday, December 01, 2017
Friday, September 22, 2017
Monday, February 13, 2017
cryin' in the streets
On my way home this story was on the radio: An Indian American Muslim singer resurrects an old civil rights anthem. It struck me as a really "Grenada-esque" story.
The new version of the song:
The original:
Monday, January 30, 2017
Saturday, December 17, 2016
turkish soap operas in the land of the telenovela
Thursday, December 08, 2016
Monday, July 18, 2016
Wednesday, July 06, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
orlando is an onion
1. Hero With a Muslim name Imran Yousuf, the bouncer at the club of partial-Muslim ancestry who acted to save dozens of lives.
2. Peel a layer and get a telenovela Omar Mateen's gay ex-lover claims Mateen was motivated by revenge over being romantically jilted.
3. Contrary to the claims of Trump and others that Muslims don't do enough to help the authorities, here is an account from The Muslim who reported Omar Mateen to the FBI.
4. Imam Zaid Shakir on Orlando
5. A Joint Muslim Statement On The Carnage in Olando
6. Dr. Farrokh Sekaleshfar was a cleric who came to Orlando to give an academic talk on homosexuality in Islam. A snippet of his talk was quoted repeatedly in the news. But here is a broader sample of Dr. Sekaleshfar's comments.
Friday, June 17, 2016
hero with a muslim name
The Yousufs emigrated from India to Guyana four generations ago. Imran Yousuf’s paternal grandfather is Muslim, and his grandmother is Hindu, so his father Rasheed is a mix of both ethnicities. Yousuf’s mother Norma is Hindu, and Imran Yousuf identifies as a Hindu, said Christina Yousuf.