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Assalamu alaikum, Alhamdulillah, this is a good thing, however, one would have thought/hoped that Busta would have done his homework before even putting this song, or the remix, out in the first place.

Maybe he’ll write an apology song?

With all the other offending rappers present as well?

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The Right to Exist, the Right to Resist

Assalamu alaikum, I was going to blog about this earlier, however, I’d heard that the “holocaust” comment made by the Isarel defense minister was a “mis-translation”, so I held off on blogging about it, but even if you wanna call it a “disaster” or “holocaust”, which seems to be the reall *actual* word that was used, albeit the Hebrew word for it, why would you even want to use that word, with all of its awful connotations? Oh, I guess because you’re Israel and you can, and becuase these are just Arabs and Muslims we’re talking about, I mean, come on! (unfortunately I’m being sarcastic which I know is not a good thing). And even if you want to say that it was a “mistranslation”, the results might as well be called a “holocaust”, because well, imho, that is what’s going on! And going on in the guise of “protecting our borders” or “defense” or whatever you want to call it! Umm Zaid says things better than I could have ever! What makes me angry is that if this were going on anywhere else, and being done by any other group of people, it would be called for what it is, genocide and human rights abuses and all of that.

But because these are ostensibly Jewish people, and we’re talkingabout Israel, for some reason, they get a free pass! And I know why, but can someone just remind me so I can understand things clearly and mkae sure that I’m not someone weird or stupid or something?

If firing rockets into towns is wrong, then why is air strikes on known civilian targets right? If firing rockets and suicide bombings are wrong, then can someone tell me why collective punishment is OK? Why cutting off electric, denying medical care, cutting off food and medical supplies, is OK?

Can someone tell me why one can say ” if these people don’t stop firing those rockets then they’re going to get a Holocaust” or well, not those exact words but that’s what the Israeli defense minister said, and the BBC just reports it and says nothing about it? Let’s see, if the Palestinians said, “the Israelis should prepare for a Holocaust”, they’d no sooner have the word out of their mouths before the condemnations, not to mention the planes and bombs, would come!

Can someone tell me how the fact that your group or religion’s suffering through a Holocaust of your own, gives you the right to then perpetrate the same sort of “Holocaust” on another group of people? I don’t get that! I was listening to hte BBC this morning and the presenter was asking some Hamas spokesman “why can’t you just stop the rockets and the air strikes would stop”, and I thought, well, the air strikes might stop but what about the blocades, the checkpoints, the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people as a whole, will that stop? Because it’s not just this latest series of incidents that the Palestinian people are fighting against! As Umm Zaid put it, they’re fighting for their very right to exist! Which many feel they don’t even have a right to!

I really wish that I could put this in more coherent terms! But watching this makes me sad, not just because they’re Muslims, but because they’re people! Human beings, that have the right to the same sorts of “human rights” and “the right to exist” as the Israelis do! Does it take going through genocide or a “holocaust” for one to acquire those rights?

On Kola Boof and “Lion’s Meat”

Assalamu alaikum, am responding to a commentor… Regarding lion meat, perhaps I overstated things (yes I can admit that *smile*). However, whenthe below quote mentions that Kola Boof supposedly went to a Senegalese restaurant because “they were the only ones who knew how to cook lion’s meat”, I just thought, well, if they know how to cook it, they must eat it, right? And even if they didn’t know how to cook it, why would you cook lion’s meat, in a place (Morocco), where probably the vast majority of the people don’t eat it?

I’d like to know, if there are any Senegalese readers, do you, or anyone else you know, eat or cook, Lion’s meat? Because I’ve never known any Senegalese to do so, but well, perhaps, well, I could be wrong. But there were other aspects of Kola Boof’s story that I found to be a bit unbelievable. I mean, can you imaigne, you’re sitting in a restaurant, a guy comes up to you, and he says “you’re mine, youc an’t date anyone else”, you run from him, his “henchmen” supposedly follow you to your house, and they kidnap you, only to release you 4 months later? Just let you go? It seems to me, that one must wonder, were you really in captivity in the first place? Anyway, when I did a Google search to find the quote about lion’s meat, I find it interesting that Google came up with
the following result that when you click on it, the quote regarding lion’s meat is nowhere to be found, though Google shows it in the page summary which highlights the search terms. The quote goes thusly:

“We met at a restaurant, I was there with some Senegalese soccer player I was dating…I had gone to this restaurant, because it was the only place in Marrakech where they knew how to cook lion’s meat–which is the one dish my father would prepare when I was a little girl in Sudan.”

The
cached
version, though, shows the quote. Why is this?

As I’ve said before, the conflicts in the Sudan, as in other places, are not black-and-white issues. Also, the same sorts of atrocities that are going on in the Sudan are going on in other parts of Africa, as well as the rest of the world,
However, I don’t see people as quick to capitalize on or be as outspoken about those. yet when it comes to the Sudan, people can make all kinds of outlandish statements, and not even get questioned on them, and instead be heralded as a “womanist novelist poet”, and be bestowed with honorific titles like “queen Kola”, etc., without most people even checking her story. They believe her because “those Arabs must be evil people”. “We all know Osama is evil so she must be telling the truth”. Never mind that at least one blog seems to be calling her out on her seemingly many very glaring errors.

Rudy Giuliani TV Ad “Ready”

Assalamu alaikum, I normally wouldn’t put this sort of thing up on my blog, but you’ve just gotta see this! I’m truly at a loss for words! And to think he was talking about there being “moderate Muslims” on some show I saw him on the other day? What does he think a “moderate Muslim” is? I’m really sickened by this ad, really I am!

Rudy Giuliani TV Ad “Ready”

> Men removed from flight for speaking Arabic @ CAIR Chicago

> Men removed from flight for speaking Arabic @ CAIR Chicago

Wow!

Assalamu alaikum, I was reading an article yesterday called,   *USAfrica: A Mortal Danger for Black Africans*
*A Black Power Pan-Africanist Viewpoint*
*By CHINWEIZU*” I didn’t put all the stars there. However, I came across the below quote:

“10] If this USAfrica is agreed this July at Accra, Gadhafi and all Arabs
will be laughing at the dumb blacks whom they have easily duped yet again.
Don’t forget their view of Blacks, as stated over the centuries, most
famously by Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden, as in the following
quotes:

  *Ibn Khaldun, the greatest Arab historian (1332-1406), sees the blacks
  as “characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism” and
  [says] that “they are everywhere described as stupid” . . . He adds that
  blacks are “humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.”
  . . .  *

  al-Dimashqi had the following to say: “The Equator is inhabited by
  communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their
  complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal.
  Their brains almost boil from the sun’s heat.”

  Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him .
  . . the zanj [black Africans]. . .are “overdone until they are burned so
  that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and
  crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions” .
  . .* *

  Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (980-1037), the most
  famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of Islam, considered
  blacks to be “people who are by their very nature slaves.”

  “All African women are prostitutes, and the whole race of African men
  are *abeed* [slave] stock. Your people are like rats plaguing the
  earth” –Osama Bin Laden to the Sudanese-American novelist Kola Boof in
  Morocco in 1996.

When next you meet an Arab, you should ask what is the Arabic word for a
black person; then ask what is the Arabic word for slave; you’ll discover
that the words are the same “abeed”. Which is why, when an Arab looks at a
black African, what he sees is a slave.
*Now, that is how their language teaches these Arab ‘brothers’ we are eager
to unite with to think of us—as slaves!*
And as one traveler in the Sudan observed in 1930:

  “In the eyes of the Arab rulers of Sudan the black slaves were simply
  animals given by Allah to make the life of the Arab comfortable”

  *A word is enough for the wise!*

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/usafrica-a-mortal-danger-for-black-afr.html”

Wow! Is all I can say, as I don’t have the knowledge or the verbal/writing skills to even try to rebut or give my own viewpoint on this sort of thing. What can you say? I was just taken aback by all of this, and the reaction I had was, that this was the same kind of stereotyping, labelling, etc., that is, according to this writer, being done to the “black Africans” that he/she is wanting to be empowered! I know that there are “racist Arabs”, I’ve never seen it, but judging by some opinion on people’s blogs, I know it’s there. However, is this the way to combat it?

Anyway, Click here to read the entire article! Thoughts anyone?

And who is Kola Boof? I seem to recall reading an interview on her, something about her having some sort of “affair” with Ben Ladin, and it talks about “Arab racism”, etc. And from what I could glean from the Web, she’s in hiding, in fear for her life, there’s some kind of fatwa against her, etc., etc., etc. Perhaps all of this is true, however, a big part of me is skeptical, I mean, really! I sense another Hirsi Ali or someone of that ilk in the making!

However, I’ll only say that this is just my gutt reaction. Many view her as a “black womanist writer”, etc., and I don’t know all there is to know (nor does anyone else except her, as she claims to have to have all sorts of identities, that she has to remain in hiding, because of the Arabs, Arab Americans, Muslims, and other Americans who want her dead, or something like that).

*sigh* Perhaps I’ll write more on this later, perhaps I won’t. If the “story” abouther is true, then I’ll just let it be, not any of my business, and if it is not, if it is all fabricated, like so many others, in order to sell books, get your name in the media, or be the next “trasher of Islam and Muslims”, etc., then I just don’t have the energy, time, or know-how to even try to rebut (once again) someone like this!