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

Radical Islam is not only bad for your health but also

The fanatics (radical Muslims/Islamic fundamentalists) are dangerous to your life, health and wellbeing because no matter how nice they appear to you initially, eventually they will turn vicious, if you still refuse to be convinced by their smart/stupid arguments/reasoning. Just like other human emotions, it’s very hard to control or curb it. When someone loses it, they tend to go overboard.

Recently, we have seen images of ISIS/ISIL destroying historical artifacts from ancient Iraqi cities.

On Friday, the group razed 3,000-year old Nimrud and on Saturday, they bulldozed 2,000-year old Hatra – both UNESCO world heritage sites. Isil currently controls about a third of Iraq and Syria. The Sunni extremist group has been campaigning to purge ancient relics they say promote idolatry that violates their fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law.

I generally don’t buy into this idea that as soon as you see a sculpture or painting or a strange looking historical artifacts, you will immediately start worshiping it. That’s purely a dumb speculation. What's even dumber is to think that a 4000 year old monuments or artifacts are even being used for any religious purposes when the ancient civilization no longer exists.

We are not only facing problems with people who subscribe to very extreme interpretation of Islam but even regular folks can't get away from many of Islam's small contradictions about which gods can be worship and which gods/goddesses cannot be worship.

According to Islam, Jesus son of God, and also god incarnate and his mother, Mary wife of God and mother of God, can be worship. So you can build your churches and put their images/pictures/idols or sculptures on altars and do whatever you see fit. Christianity is not the only religion that is protected under Islamic theology. Judaism, Zoroastrians, Sabeans, Mandeans and a few other ancient religions (which have not been named or clearly defined in literatures) have also earned the status of being a protected faith. Again, the status confers on these faiths are extremely arbitrary. It’s not based on deep analyses of religious dogma or anything of that nature. I’ve read some of the reasons and found them to be utterly unconvincing. I have posts on this here.


Reference

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11458343/Third-ancient-site-of-Khorsabad-attacked-by-Isil-as-coalition-strike-on-Syria-oil-refinery-kills-30.html