US Muslim woman defies hardliners, BBC News, 07/26/2004
This is a strange article, since anyone who has been to a mosque knows that most of them have a seperation of men and women. But, then again, that the target audience of the article's not muslim is just as glaringly in focus as the actual subject. I feel a need to write a bit about this, since, as far as I can remember, it's always been segregated, though there's never been any support or rationale other than 'tradition.' It's definately interesting she's waging the battle in the media -- granted, that appears to be her job and vocation -- since it seems to only bring shame, mistrust, distrust and a variety of other sadnesses upon her (and other) communities. She may not have gotten redress from her mosque's 'tribunal,' but I believe she's going about the whole affair in precisely the wrong way. With an eye towards the uninitated, as this article and her campaign so clearly has, I'd begin by searching Islam's teachings and the cultures that it's influenced for inspiration. There are "liberal" theologicians and writings around, I'd use the process of awareness for good, not for division.
Sites referenced in the article:
Muslimwakeup.com
altmuslim.com
Jack finally has a
blog. Evolution. For a quick peek back to blogging history, here are two entries from
Kim Jong Il's
blog.
Christian Zionism, Evangelicals, Born Agains and
Premillennial Dispensationalism
The Jesus Landing Pad, Village Voice, May 2004
Christian Zionists soldier to prophecy
A Strange Kind of Freedom, Independent.co.uk, July 2002
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin and
Rumsfeld comments [10/2003] (interesting note, Wikipedia doesn't have a Boykin entry (only a
reference), but disinfopedia does... maybe some research and a first entry?)
Political Mobilization of the New Christian Right, Bryan Le Beau, Creighton University
iPodAgent looks interesting. Ian recommended looking at
EphPod for music management.
Earlier this evening I became frustrated at iTunes options for iPod management: fully automatic, playlists-only, fully-manual. I'd like something that would update only specific ones designated in iTunes, and new ones pessimistically. Presently, I'm having to manually remove songs from the iPod (i turned on iTunes "fully-manual" iPod management).
Also, ORA's
iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition looks interesting. Also,
iPodHacks.com and of course
iPodLounge.com.
cupo of coffee
cinnimon raisin bagel, honey walnut cream cheese
maki-nori snax (5)
bowl of blueberries
marie calendar's chicken pot pie
I checked the FedEx shipment status and it read 10:40am "Package at station - awaiting courier". Upon printing the page, a new line showed up: "11:23am On FedEx vehichle for delivery". This was 12:33p PST. As I turned off the car to go towards the UPS Store nee MBE, my phone buzzed. It was Bill, from inside the UPS Store: "A package has arrived from FedEx." Sure enough, the FedEx package that left on 07/22 01:07pm from Shanghai, CN had arrived.
An hour and a half later, Susan from MBE called to say that the dock had arrived. It shipped 07/22 12:25a from Oakland, CA.
BlitzSafe, a way to get audio jacks directly into the stereo. No RF no tape for iPod access.
how to w/ '03 A4
ContourCase, apparently the best one for the older iPods. hopefully new cases soon.
Noooooooo!
WiX on SourceForge... Microsoft Open Source?
Looking at some of the
Microsoft Community Blogs I read an intersting one from a
onenote team member made me think of looking at the product.
Inside Eclipse 3.0, from Penton Technology Media's EclipseNews
rendezvous - maybe for personal sharing group app?
Fink
chicken, brown rice, some veggies
sm. cup potato leek
a few handfuls of chocolate covered almonds
5/6th sm. cheese pizza
Who are the insurgents and can they be defeated?, Economist July 8, 2004
This article claims that there are a variety of insurgent groups based in Salafist, Sufi, and Muslim Brotherhood origins. Interesting.
backgrounder, Economist
Amorphous but alive, Economist June 3, 2004