Archive for July, 2007
11 year old gives STDs to 2 pre-school girls
Comments(0)This is over the top
11-year-old boy forced two pre-school-aged girls to have sex with him, infected them with sexually transmitted diseases, but will not be prosecuted by Western Australian authorities. Police yesterday confirmed that criminal charges would not be laid against the boy from Balgo, a troubled indigenous community in the northeastern reaches of the Great Sandy Desert 100km from the Northern Territory border, despite his being above the age of criminal responsibility under state law
Evangelists and Muslims in dialogue?
Evangelists tend to be the most intolerant of others amongst the Christians and this is a very surprising development
The initiative launched at that July 2 meeting came as a surprise to many. The evangelical community is known for its support of Israel, and many of its most outspoken leaders, such as Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell, have made incendiary comments about the Muslim world. But in recent months, an unusual rapprochement has begun between these two powerful communities, and the sons of some of those same pastors are participating.
Sign of the Last Day
The Hour will not be established—till the people compete with one another in constructing high buildings. (Bukhari)
Dubai high rise is world’s tallest building
The world’s tallest building under construction, the Burj Dubai, a 1,680-foot (512 meters) skyscraper seen from behind the perimeter fence of the site Saturday July 21, 2007 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building is now taller than Taipei 101 in Taiwan, which had dominated the world’s skyline at 1,667 feet (508 meters) since 2004.
FEMA knew about Toxic Trailers
According to the Washington Post, FEMA has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommended maximum for U.S. workers, congressional lawmakers said yesterday.
A Setup?
The Islam haters ran away with this story, but it turns out to be of no concern. Someone just left it on her lawn
A response to Robert Spencer and others
Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch has argued that the terrorist/jihadees/takfeerees are acting according to Islam while other Muslims are just either ignoring these arguments or reinterpreting them. Essentially, one can not be a good practicing Muslim and not be a Jihadee.
Islam is not about just picking up the Quran and Hadith or even the writings of scholars of the past (in different circumstances) and making our own interpretation and acting upon it, but it is about listening to the scholars who can look at things in light of contemporary times and give us guidance on matters be it jihad or mundane issues.
While the Jihadees are claiming to follow Quran and Sunnah, they are following their own desires and not following the guidance of the scholars. For example, Mr Spencer argues that Muslims are allowed to be deceitful, and I will submit that the jihadists do use this argument, but this is not something that is from our deen as explained by our scholars. In light of this, I have posted the following article by Shaykh ‘Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Ubaykaan regarding this:
Those who travel to and enter non-Muslim lands under a pact of safety (Visas), how could they then prove treacherous and betray it!?
How can a Muslim not realise this?
Do you not see that if a man enters a non-Muslim country and is given a pact of safety (a visa), that this is a betrayal? Every betrayer of a trust will have a banner raised over him on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said: “This is the treachery of so and so” – by name. This would be publicized on the Day of Resurrection, because he is treacherous.
The Messenger of Allaah (sall-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said:
“Do not betray even those who betray you.”
Even the person who betrays you, you mustn’t betray him! But these people, how is it that they enter with a pact of safety (a visa) and then prove treacherous? This is not the way of the believers, nor is treachery a characteristic of the Prophet, may the Salaat and Salaam be upon him, or his companions, and we seek refuge with Allaah from that.
Taken from: http://www.madeenah.com/article.cfm?id=1241
Mr Spencer has also argued that Muslims are not refuting the jihadists on Islamic grounds, but I present to him this article that rejects the Muslim Brotherhood’s (and Syed Qutub’s) teachings and by extension the evil of the terror groups Hamas, Hezbollah and other groups of evil.
Further there are many admonitions against the actions of the jihadists to include the following:
Devil’s Deception of Abdullah Faisal
And he can find here a comprehensive Islamic refutation of the jihadists and these scholar’ debates have caused terrorists to leave behind their evil ways
We say to Mr Spencer and others that we reject the jihadists and mischief makers and their ideology a thousand times over and hate them more than you do. We are outraged and humiliated by their murderous and vile actions. Many scholars have even instructed us to work with and inform the Western authorities of the evil plots of these people should we become aware of them.
You say that you have not seen the refutations, we offer to you to read the links we have provided
Is Courage the same as anger?
Read this post, and then read what is below
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) that the messenger of Allah (Muhammad ( 
) Peace and blessing of Allah be upon him said :
“The man is not a good wrestler; the strong man is in fact the person who controls himself at the time of anger.” (Bukhari)
Hot headedness is not a quality that is from the Sunnah of our beloved Prophet
We should try to work on our faults and not justify them
Children and Lying
by talibiddeenjr
Dealing with children that lie a lot can be very frustrating. I can’t say that I have learned how to overcome it, but I’d thought I’d share a few thoughts on things that might be effective, Allahu ilm, in teaching children not to lie.
1.Teaching that Allah is Al Baseer (All Seeing), Al Sami’(All Hearing)
I had an informal Islamic Studies lesson the other day with my two five year olds. We talked about how Allah is Al Baseer, the All Seeing and that he sees everything that we do. I sort of paraphrased a hadith I remember about Allah being able to see a black ant on a black rock at night and how we could not see such a thing, but that Allah was able to see it. We talked about how Allah could see and hear everything we do and that there was no where we could go or nothing we could do that Allah couldn’t see us. So I told them that they should remember this. They might not get caught by Ummy by doing something bad, but Allah would always know.
2. How we react when children lie
One thing that I realize is that especially when my older children were younger, I use to rant and rave and scold them harshly when they lied (ok, I still do sometimes today) I think how we respond when a children lies can set the stage for the future, Allahu ilm. I think that by calmly discussing what occurred, discussing consequences or possible consequences and reminding children that Allah is not please with us when we lie, over time, could be more effective. Digressing——I have a behavior exercise that I made up (available on my site) that encourages children to look at what they did, how it could be harmful and look at ways to remedy the situation. Anyway, I think sometimes children will lie because they know they are going to “get it.” Perhaps if they knew they were not going to get yelled at, this might prevent some lying.
3. Monitoring Ourselves
Being good role models is also a way to model for our children. If they see us telling “little white lies” these are still lies and they take this in as well. It is important to remind our children (and ourselves) to try to stay out of potential situations where one may feel the need to lie or stretch the truth to get out of a jam. I do not know about the psychology of lying, but these are just a few things that I noticed seem to have an effect sometimes on whether or not a child may lie. (knowing that Allah is aware; how we react when they do lie and making sure our children don’t see us lying).
One Sick Story
This is a sad story about the gang rape of a Haitian woman and assault of her 12 year old son. Three boys are in police custody so far..
But what is worse is that some of the boy’s family members are defending them. This is one of the most shameful things about the black community. Defending rif raf. You can in this video that one of them is smiling while he is being arrested.
