Now that Barack Obama has been reelected, we can expect more and more creeping sharia in the USA. Look, it creepeth already: Creep Creep creep Creeeep
Category Archives: Briefly
Malaysian Invasion Documentation
After ten years, I brought my entire family back to the US. Five of us had never set foot in the motherland before. Between the incredible length of the journey – 30 hours and three airplanes – and the slightly above average size of our family, I imagine it will be ten more before we […]
Fruits of A Common Word
A number of publications, including one by Habib Ali Al-Jifri, are available for free from the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre’s Common Word intiative which has been hosting a series of ground-breaking Catholic-Muslim forums. [via Seeker’s Guidance]
Hearts and Brains
KakNgah asked me if it was true that our hearts are the size of our fist, and our brains are the size of our two fists put together. I put my two fists together, shrugged and told her that sounded about right to me. She looks at her two fists. Blinks. Wails: “My brain is […]
Dissident flees to obscure nation, raises many children
Pete O’Neal, former Black Panther, is running an orphanage in rural Tanzania and confronting his mortality. His life is explored in the PBS documentary A Panther in Africa.
American Muslim Expat Life
Author and Professor Dr Jamillah Karim spent a year living in Kuala Lumpur. Read this great interview by Sister Brooke, and then visit Dr Jamillah’s blog for a series of thoughtful reflections on what living in Malaysia was like for her as an African American Muslim, what insights she gained about the immigrant Muslim experience […]
Granfalloons
Granfalloon (n) : “A proud and meaningless association of human beings.” A word coined by Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) in his book Cat’s Cradle. I was recalling the concept recently for some reason but couldn’t bring the term to mind. There it is: A granfalloon. The idea is illustrated in the book by a woman from […]
Brass Crescent 2011
The Brass Crescent Awards for 2011 are open for voting. There are just a huge number of quality blogs up for consideration. Polls close on November 7.