Assalamu alaikum, I’m starting to wonder if going to deen intensives and / or traveling to other events in order to seek knowledge will get me introuble one day? I know I should make dua and Inshallah, Allah will be protected, but it’s still scary, and I don’t think I’d hold up well if I were interrogated.
Link: New York Daily News - Home - Muslim convert & drifter wanted to fly but did months in jail.
Assalamu alaikum, I’m starting to wonder if going to deen intensives and / or traveling to other events in order to seek knowledge will get me introuble one day? I know I should make dua and Inshallah, Allah will be protected, but it’s still scary, and I don’t think I’d hold up well if I were interrogated.
Link: New York Daily News - Home - Muslim convert & drifter wanted to fly but did months in jail.
Assalamu alaikum, I’m starting to wonder if going to deen intensives and / or traveling to other events in order to seek knowledge will get me introuble one day? I know I should make dua and Inshallah, Allah will be protected, but it’s still scary, and I don’t think I’d hold up well if I were interrogated.
Link: New York Daily News - Home - Muslim convert & drifter wanted to fly but did months in jail.
Assalamu alaikum, surely, any divorce or "talaq" wouldn’t be valid if said while sleeping!? Even if it’s the "triple talaq"? I don’t know, though.
Link: CNN.com - Report:?Sleep ‘divorce’ counts - Mar 27, 2006.
Today, Friday, March 31st, marks five full days after the offices of The Independent newspaper were sealed off and the paper’s editor-in-chief Musa Saidykhan
and General Manager Madi Ceesay were arrested and whisked off by security forces. Up till this evening, the offices remain sealed and guarded by armed
paramilitary officers and Ceesay and Saidykhan remain held. They have not been charged with any crime and we are still not able to establish the reason
for this outrage. Even the company’s lawyer has not been able to establish the reason for this action. Senior police officers involved in the arrests told
our lawyer that they do not know why they are holding Ceesay and Saidykhan.
End of statement.
What? The police don’t know why they’re holding them? Uh, could it be that Jammeh told them to?
Assalamu alaikum, Alhamdulillah that this guy was finally caught! I’d thought, when he first disappeared in Nigeria, that they’d never catch him! Well, he’s caught! When’s Jammeh’s time coming!? Maybe not in front of the UN or the Hague, or maybe not even in this life, but Inshallah, Jammeh, like other evil people, will have to answer for their deeds one day.
Assalamu alaikum, * yawn *. Here we go again. There’s a supposed attempted coup, and what does Jammeh do? The same thing that all good dictators do, clamp down on anything they feel is "out to get them". I wonder if there was even a coup to begin with. He’ll probably just use this as a reason to once again kill innocent people and throw them in pit latrines. And yes, he, or at least, people working on his orders, have been known to do that. And his coup was supposed to be a "coup with a difference". Weren’t he and the rest of the soldiers who overthrew the Jawara government supposed to be "soldiers with a difference". Hmmm, some difference. I don’t think this was the "difference", that Gambians wanted. The "difference" of being worse than anything the Jawara government ever did. But anyway.
Link: CPJ Protests: 2006.
Assalamu alaikum, you’ve really got to be kidding me! When I started to read this article, not too long before leave work, I almost started crying, right there! It was a good thing it was almost time to go, and that Alhamdulillah, I was able to pull myself together and take the final call of the day. I mean, I don’t even know what to say, I don’t even know where to start! The author of this article claims he’s fighting hate, when really, it seems he’s just creating more of it. And it seems that he’s using some bad childhood, and other, experiences he’s had, as an excuse to lash out at people. Note, how, in an article about why he started his "Americans Against Hate" site he talks about how good it felt when he got his roommate kicked out of school for smoking weed. It’s a power thing, ya know. And right now, Muslims are the weak and oppressed, and he can make himself feel better by kicking us when we’re down. I guess he won’t be satisfied himself until we’re in camps and gas chambers just like the Jews were during the Holocaust. Then, maybe he’ll feel like he’s accomplished something. But what will he do when the Muslims aren’t around to kick anymore? Maybe he’;ll start focusing on someone else? I’m angry guys, really I am. And what he’s doing is potentially putting people in danger, and this isn’t funny. So, in his zeal to stop hate, does he think it OK for thos "Moslems" to be receiving death threats? I guess he thinks that’s OK, because it’s stopping hate. Does he think that innocent people should be targeted because of their faith? Because that is what the kinds of articles he writes and publishes leads to. So I guess hatred of Americans, or Jews, or African-Americans, is bad. But hatred and oppression and murder of Muslims is OK, because they’re just going to come and bomb us anyway.
OK, I’m going to stop now. A brother I was talking to earlier wondered why I even read this sorts of things anyway. He said how this was just hatred and ignorance, and we all know what the truth is, and just not to worry about it. But…. I wanted to protest. The author is trashing others’ character, lying about people, defaming them, etc. But the brother kept saying, Allah / God knows the truth. So just don’t get so worked up about it. And so I’ll try not to, but it’s not easy.
Nobody likes to be maligned wrongly, whether it’s Danya Shakfeh or Joe Kaufmann.
Assalamu alaikum / greetings. If you guys don’t hear from me for a few days, it’s ’cause I’ll be attending the Sisters Only Deen Intensive this weekend in San Jose, California! Alhamdulillah! I’ll be leaving for the airport as soon as I finish work today, Inshallah.
Please everyone make dua for me! I really needed this, and I won’t elaborate as to why right now, but I really need a break away from, well, work, the Internet, etc. I’ll try to explain more later. But just suffice it to say, that I need some spiritual renewal.
So anyway, if anyone else is going, well, let me know. Email me at quickgm@gmail.com or gmq0525@yahoo.com, you’ll get me at either address. Assalamu alaikum and take care.
