Archive for April, 2014
Being Happy is Haram
Well, everything is haram. If you are acheiving enjoyment or it’s making you smile. If you are enjoying life while others are suffering in the world, it’s haram. And it’s fitna too. It’s all the bad things you shouldn’t be doing if you’re a good Muslim. Okay- sarcasm is not exactly my greatest Muslim trait. […]
Support Muslim Film Makers. Hollywood Here We Come.
ISF National Film Grant – $20,000 Grant For Muslim Filmmakers As Muslims, it feels lame to be chasing down faux film makers who are pretending to make films showing they care about humanity- when the insidiuous truth and intention is to spread bigotry and hate. (But we will continue to call them out. Every.Single.Time.) That […]
Speaking Up Delivers Justice
Chicago’s Columbia College Professor, Iymen Chehad, had his class reiinstated. Remember, part of his class was cancelled because he showed the Oscar nominated film, 5 Broken Cameras, which documents life under Israeli Occupation. One student in class complained of ‘bias’ and academic freedom was threatened on American soil. The voices of citizens with conscious came […]