'Current Affairs' Category
Do Grades really Matter?
I found the following really interesting. Seems like a lot of world and business leaders were either mediocre in their studies, or complete dropouts [like Bill Gates and others]
From an article by Maclean’s:
A growing body of evidence suggests grades don’t predict success — C+ students are the ones who end up running the [...]
To eat or not to eat …
MuslimMatters had a good article recently on the whole Doritos chips ruckus about animal rennet. I found it to be mostly thorough when it came to explaining their stance on why Doritos are still halaal despite the inclusion of animal rennet during the manufacturing process.ÂÂ
Being a thorough and researched article, its a bit long but [...]Ta7t el-3arsh
Br. Waleed Shaalan.
He was amongst the 30+ victims at Virginia Tech who were shot and injured / killed this morning in a senseless rampage.======================= Update: ============================
NY Times is reporting that Brother Shaalan was also a hero that day. According to Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech, Mr. Shaalan saved the life of [...]The myth of Muslim support for terror
Ballen writes:
Only 46 percent of Americans think that “bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians” are “never justified,” while 24 percent believe these attacks are “often or sometimes justified.”
Contrast those numbers with 2006 polling results from the world’s most-populous Muslim countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. Terror Free Tomorrow, the organization [...]No Apologies
Man what the heck, first time’s supposed to be FREE. Anyways.
Horseshoe Valley Resort, MSA Ski Trip 2007. Had about 350 peeps come to carve up the slopes.
Afterwards I spent a few days sore all over. Rested.
And now I’m itching to go back.
This time I hope I can use downed ski-jockeys as takeoff ramps, [...]She did WHAT?!!!
My brother-in-law was over tonight and during a conversation, he was telling me about some of the crazier insurance lawsuits he’s read about during his sojourn so far as a Director of the Insurance division of a large insurance company. He said the most retarded one (sic) he had ever come across was as follows:
A [...]Dr. Max’s Top 10 List for 2006
Thumbs up to Fahad S. for pointing out the link.
The following is Dr. Max’s top 10 list of Pro-Regressive Idiots for 2006:
10) Monis Rahman (CEO of Naseeb.com)
9) Raheel Raza (potato-faced slag from MCC)
Naser Khader (Danish politician)
7) Muslim Council of Canada (founded by Tarek Fatah and Irshad Manji)
6) Muslim Council of [...]RIS: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
The 2006 5th Annual Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) Convention has left the building.
There were definitely outstanding items on the menu this year along with some stuff so ridiculous that some people should certainly be given their severance paychecks and attendant pink slips.
The Good: Speakers and topics. This year’s theme was moderation and its relevance [...]Killers of the Prophets.
Swedish human rights worker viciously attacked by Jewish extremists in Hebron.
Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers (HRWs) to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 Jewish extremists in small groups. They started chanting in Hebrew “We killed Jesus, [...]Sit Down!!! Part Two
(Addendum to Part One)
THE CANADIAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS
MEDIA COMMUNIQUE
Nov. 8, 2006ISLAMIC CONGRESS WELCOMES JUSTICE RUTHERFORD’S RULING ON ANTI-TERRORISM LAW –
FOCUS ON CRIME, NOT MOTIVE, WILL PROTECT CANADIANS’ RIGHTS TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, IDEOLOGY AND BELIEF, SAYS CIC
Following an extensive study by its legal experts the Canadian Islamic [...]