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Monday, July 11, 2005

on my mind...

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Nothing particularly deep to say today. I've been a little tired these days. I'm still in the middle of reading Black Skin, White Ma...
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Sunday, July 10, 2005

don't ask for whom the bell tolls...

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But seriously, I'm praying for peace in London and all over the world.

what is the islamic stance on the london bombings?

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If Muslims are at a point where people actually ask this question and there is any significant degree of suspense about the answer, then the...

we are all collateral damage

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(a response to the London bombings) We Are All Collateral Damage By Zaid Shakir The Roads to Peace The roads to peace are paths of war, The ...
Saturday, July 09, 2005

memin pinguin pulled

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I guess public pressure can account for something. Fox finally caved and the racist stamps were recalled.

stop trippin'

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Sunan Abu Dawud Book 41, Number 5097 Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah, Most High, has removed from you the ...

kerry descended from the prophet muhammad?

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This news is a bit old but I didn't hear about until recently and it seems interesting enough to share. Apparently, according to the gen...

the (real) da vinci code

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So I finished the Da Vinci Code yesterday. It was a pretty entertaining book. Not great, but interesting. Assuming they get some decent acto...
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Thursday, July 07, 2005

"and the indians, give them whatever they want"

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One of the most interesting passages in the John Grisham novel, the Pelican Brief, is the scene where the fictional Supreme Court justice Ab...

young lords

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So once at a performance of Slave Ships South, somebody had asked me about the last line: Ahora que estamos en el Norte, que traemos? Now th...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005

the da vinci code

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So I finally got on the bandwagon and have started to read The Da Vinci Code. It really interesting so far but the concepts don't seem ...

poetry slam

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Last night I was one of four featured poets at the local poetry spot. The evening mostly went well. I started off with Slave Ships South an...
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chess films

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So this past week I recently saw Searching For Bobby Fischer and Fresh (Which I often call "Searching for Bobby Fischer in tha Hood...
Monday, July 04, 2005

who is muqtedar khan?

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If you haven't heard of him before, here are some links which give a little background: Muqtedar Khan's IJTIHAD website His blog, GL...

muqtedar khan's resignation

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In another kind of "declaration of independence", Muqtedar Khan recently resigned from the board of the PMUNA (Progressive Muslim ...
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"patriotism" is a way of saying "women and children first"

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More food for thought on the Fourth of July: This isn't critical in the same way as my other "holiday" entries. This is from a...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

what to the slave is the fourth of july?

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This is a talk delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852. To check out the whole speech read the above link, but here is an exerpt (w...
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"asalam-alaikum , akhi. could you get me a lottery ticket?"

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i just had a weird experience. I was at a gas station tonight to put gas in my car. But the person in front of me in line (African-American)...
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Saturday, July 02, 2005

black loyalists

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Here is another early "fourth of July" entry. Just recently a good Black friend of mine told me that his family had cottage in C...

inside the river of poetry

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Louis Reyes Rivera traces the origins of modern poetry and spoken word, with special attention to the Latino and Black contributors to the ...