shotout to Haseeb for sending this video to me.

When she says Kong is a woman of peace, I hear the parallel: Islam is a Religion of Peace. Obviously Kong is a violent monster, so does this subtly imply that Islam is a religion of violence?

When I showed this video to my wife.. she asked why her eyebrows were all done up. Only a female would come up with that observation.

This is not the first time A Arab/Muslim Bad guy has been used in wrestling. We all remember the Iron Sheikh, and more recently Muhammad Hassan.

Dwight Howard made the Slam Dunk Contest worth watching. Some complained that his “Superman Dunk” wasn’t really a dunk. I agree, I don’t think that should have counted as a dunk and he had time remaining to retry to do it right. He didn’t even touch the rim! When he was interviewed he explained that the Soulja Boy Superman song is his favorite song. Even if it is… why would you proclaim that on national television!?!

If you still don’t believe he is a beast.. just watch him practicing his dunks for the dunk contest (ignore the product placement):

About the All-star game itself… it was competitive down to the final minutes! This was the first time in years that it wasn’t a blow out. Ray Allen helped the East pull out the Win. In my opinion Ray is the best player of the Celtic Trio. He has one of the highest free throw shooting percentages, is a clutch shooter, can drain 3 after 3 and can control the ball, create space, and create his own shot. I also like the other 2, I mean “I Ball fierce like Paul Pierce” -Rebel INS.

This video says it all

So which do you prefer?

P.S. the 9X00 BB series will have a touch screen.

I got this in an email over a week ago:

> The National Desk at NPR is posting a two-year
> reporting position to focus on coverage of Muslims
> in America. We are looking to develop a significant
> body of work that explores the political, cultural,
> religious, sociological and demographic trends in
> this community.
>
> This position will involve significant domestic
> travel and possibly some international travel.
>
> Qualifications for this position include a
> demonstrated expertise and experience covering
> Muslim cultures, history, political trends.
>
> Fluency or a working knowledge of Arabic is highly
> preferred.
>

When a news story pops up which would make Muslims look not very sophisticated, educated, or even rational all the media outlets eat it up. You may recall recent news stories such as the Muhammad Teddy Bear incident and Honor Killings in the US.

Well I received an email recently from angry Muslims asking me to sign a petition to ask Wikipedia to remove images of Muhammad from its page on Muhammad (S) linked under the entry on Islam. I refrained from commenting on it at the time. Now Nytimes has picked up on it. So I guess its time to speak up. Like most stupid Muslim issues, ignoring them is not enough in hopes of having them go away. So sometimes these issues need to be responded to. Many times to help Muslims understand what the correct Islamic viewpoint is on a situation.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia which allows users to contribute to its pages. Wikipedia has set guidelines to follow for its users. The issue at hand is that after the Cartoon Controversy stirred up by a Danish Cartoonist Muslims have become very sensitive about any and all depictions of the prophet (peace be upon him).

In an effort to gain support for his children’s freedom from slavery, the newly freed American slave Abdul Rahman once wrote out what was supposed to be the Lord’s Prayer in Arabic.

Years later, it was discovered that he had actually written out Surah Al-Fatihah, the opening chapter of the Qur’an.

After forty years of crushing servitude in a strongly Christian land, this former African prince still remained faithful to Allah, with the memory of His words still in his heart and mind.

After the ICNA Convention I was doing some searching on youtube to see what people put up. I found this. after subscribing to this user I got hooked on their videos. They have come up with one of the funniest home made videos sketches I have seen in a while:

A team of 3 brothers: Ismaeil, Hassan + another brother (don’t know his name) and their friend Abdullah are really creative and deserve to be commended, and have their videos subscribed to. I love how Ismael makes stuff up as he goes along.

Here’s some more videos from Shadibadoo that I really like:

I was getting all of my posts marked as spam by akismet on of my friends wordpress blogs. Then I came across this post.

So I went to http://akismet.com/contact/ and under “I have a support or feature request” I submitted the following email:

Great Video, a Must Watch: