Thoughts

Mating parakeets

Mating rose-ringed parakeets, originally uploaded by malyousif. These two were going at it and were almost completely oblivious of me being about 15 meters away snapping pictures of them! They nest in the eaves; which unfortunately for us, they are ripping apart. We see plenty of evidence of them “preparing” their nest by wood chips …

Haidar

Ashoora procession/haidar, originally uploaded by jamalaly. Images of commemoration of Imam Hussain‘s martyrdom in Karbalah on the 10th of Muharram in 680 CE. The “haidar” is a barbaric and completely unwarranted and unneeded custom which does more damage to Shiism than anything else. The Shi’as pride themselves as “progressive” in that they have “Ijtihad” which …

Time to boycott France!

A French newspaper reprinted on Wednesday a series of 12 Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad that have sparked protests in the Muslim world and prompted Saudi Arabia to recall its ambassador from Denmark. The France Soir daily said it had published the cartoons in the name of freedom of expression and to fight …