Single men are root of all evil?

In some places in the world, single men can be very dangerous. They try stupid stunts

A popular stunt among young drivers is "sidewall skiing," which entails driving on the two side wheels of the car only. To make the experience even more extreme, the driver may high-five a spectator on the curb, passengers ride outside the vehicle, barely hanging on to the windows or the chassis, and other thrill-seekers lie on the road as the car passes over them. [1]

They join murderous cult like ISIS so they can purchase wives and slaves on black markets.

Via a translator, the man says he has been in contact with a broker—a middleman used as a go-between from ISIS to grieving Yazidi families—who for a high fee will return his children after they were taken and sold as slaves among the jihadis just over a year ago in the ISIS blitz of northern Iraq. [2]

Muslim girls and women have to guard themselves from constant abuse and harassment by covering themselves from top to bottom, left to right. Covering doesn't really help or guard women against those who have a very low opinion of the female gender.

One member of a gang of youngsters who harassed two young women as they took a stroll along the corniche in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah has been arrested. The arrested individual gave out the names of some members of the group of adolescents who followed the two girls, one of whom was fully veiled and the other with only the upper half of her face showing, Saudi news site Sabq reported on Monday. The two women pleaded with the raucous teenagers to leave them alone, but their pleas seemed to fall on deaf ears. [3]

Enough is enough! Women should not be punish for the weakness of men. Qatar is doing something about this.

"No bachelors," the guard said. The newly-renovated park - its boating lake, miniature golf course and neatly manicured lawns - was off-limits to men unaccompanied by women or children, the guard said. "It's for families only." So-called "bachelor bans" that bar lone men from entering malls and parks on certain days of the week and from living in residential neighborhoods are a common, often loosely-enforced, practice in the conservative Muslim Gulf. Local authorities say the measure, enforced by businesses and municipalities, allows families and women who live in crowded and male-dominated cities space to enjoy public facilities.

Qatar's population stands at 2.6 million, 75 percent of whom are male, according to the country's ministry of planning. No one knows exactly how many Qatari citizens there are as the government refuses to release a total but estimates say there are between 200,000 to 250,000. "Bachelor workers are eroding the privacy and comfort of families," Rashed Al Fadeh, a Qatari journalist, wrote in a column for local Arabic-language daily al-Sharq last year, saying workers overrunning neighborhoods was damaging Qatar’s social fabric.

"Going shopping without being stared at, enjoying a park not crowded with men who may look at women and not respect traditions. Qatari families have the right to do these simple things," said Mohannadi. "Today if you go to Al Khor on the weekend you may not see one person wearing traditional dress, no Qataris ... You can feel like a stranger there now." Authorities have in recent months taken steps to further separate workers from locals: ministry of interior maps which highlight in stark green and yellow Doha’s “no-go” housing zones for migrant workers were plastered last month on billboards across the capital. In December, construction workers were turned away from a parade event along Doha's corniche marking Qatar’s national day celebrations.

after reading this article in its entirety, I'm thinking that the banning of the single men is applicable only to non-Qatari migrant workers and not to their own first-class citizen.

References
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-sidewall-skiing-2013-4
[2] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/03/the-isis-slave-girl-buyback-schemes.html
[3] http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/video-saudi-youth-held-for-harassing-women-1.1553231
[4] http://in.reuters.com/article/qatar-labour-bachelors-idINKCN0Y81JQ

Every day is mother's day?

Recently we celebrated mother's day. This is a fairly new and informal celebratory day, mostly good for businesses (restaurant, flowers, shopping, cards and other gifts, etc) and your ego but perhaps not very good for your purse/wallet.

On facebook, everyone had pictures of their mothers or some nice sweet messages. Some Muslim were heavily promoting and forwarding the slogan: “In Islam, everyday is mother's day” and some positive messages about women and Islam. It's all about trying to fit in with the modern life and sell your religion.

Realistic, in Islam, there's no mother's day. This is not really something you can find or trace anywhere in its teaching. Since I'm not a purist, I don't see any harm in celebrating mother's day but for consistency sake we also need to say that “In Islam, everyday could easily be Valentine day” since Islam is also not oppose to lovers.

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I'm still alive

I have not been active on the blog for a while. I became busy and lost interest in writing. Because of not doing anything with the blog, google thinks I'm dead. So I had a little trouble getting in my account.

I setup this blog using email system A and as a recovery method I used email system B. And I remember all my passwords for system A and system B.

When I logged to the blog with the correct password after being inactive for a long time, google thinks there's something fishy going on with my account. It sent me a recovery code to system B. I login to my email account on system B and find out that system B thinks something fishy is going on. System B sent a recovery code to system A to verify that this is the same person since I haven't log in to my account for a long time. So, I was trapped between system A and B sending recovery email to each other, despite me knowing all the passwords to my account. Annoying!

Rent a husband for an hour

Check this out.

Moscow City Hall want to rent ‘husbands’ to perform ‘men’s jobs’ in local households. The hired “husbands” would be available to perform tasks traditionally viewed as a man’s job in a Russian household, such as replacing a leaky tap or putting up shelves,

“Husband For An Hour Moscow” is one of several dozen companies which promise “young and strong men with a huge set of technical skills,”

“You’ve just spent a long time in a store selecting a new light fixture for your hallway to perfectly match your new decor,” the company’s online statement reads. “But you’re a beautiful woman with a killer manicure, and you’re not ready to get intimate with a buzzing and horribly vibrating drill. Who can come to your aid?” “Assertive men, who’ll call themselves your husband for an hour, are on their way to your home,” the ad reads.

We generally call these men ..plumber, electrician, technician, carpenter, contractor, window guy..etc

Maybe something is lost in the translation…or way more is being advertised here..


Reference

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/10/moscow-announces-plans-for-rent-a-husband-social-service

Join a jihadi group and get your throat slit by a friend

Yesterday, I mentioned briefly why it’s not a good idea to become friendly with fanatics or radical Muslim/Fundamentalists. Just because someone claims to be your brother/sister in Islam, it doesn’t mean you want to spend your time with the craziest. Don’t even acknowledge their stupidity by seriously considering anything they say. Just walk away.

Today, another video appear that shows a young kid from the ISIS/ISIL group shooting unarmed Palestinian guy –straight at his head.

A video released Tuesday showed Mohamed Musallam, 20, wearing the disturbingly familiar orange jumpsuit of an Islamic State captive. He was shown admitting under obvious duress that he was an informer for Israeli intelligence before he was shot in the head by a young boy. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, alleged that he had been sent to Syria “as an agent for the Israeli Mossad” to gather information on the group.

By now, you have probably realized that ISIS/ISIL doesn’t really conduct trial or call witnesses or have judges that look into the allegations. Even worse they don’t even have a proper executioner of law. As can be seen in this latest video, the executioner is a young kid, who’s very much on a fast track to become a sadistic animal when he grows-up.

Interestingly, Mohamed Musallam travelled to Syria to join this barbaric group.

Ahmed and his father suggested that Mohamed Musallam was most likely lured by Islamic State recruiters or brainwashed by other Palestinians in their East Jerusalem neighborhood who were loyal to the group’s philosophy.

“They promised him girls and money,” his father said.

References

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/world/middleeast/family-of-palestinian-man-killed-by-isis-say-he-wasnt-spying-for-israel.html

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/international/europe/2015/03/official_man_boy_in_is_killing_video_are_french_citizens