While most pundits and analysts are giving their views about the destruction caused by the floods, Moign Khawaja of Outernationalist.net speaks to the force of nature to find out its views about the catastrophe and reasons for natural aggression of a grand scale. While finding the other side of the story, we discovered many qualms and reservations nature has been confronted with for a long time. (more…)
Eat, Pray, Love is all the rage, again. After its run on bestseller lists a few years back, it is set to be a major movie success, starring Julia Roberts. It makes one wonder why, and whether or not it tells a story which makes us feel that we need exotic travel to stimulate our spiritual journeys. But do we? (more…)
Every year the onset of Ramadan ushers in a strange cultural transformation in urbanized Muslim societies. A natural consequence of waking up to eat in the darkest hours of morning, fasting from dawn to dusk, and consuming huge amounts of food at sunset is that your biological clock along with the rest of your bodily functions goes completely haywire. In Muslim majority societies however, fasting isn’t an individualistic phenomenon, but a socially driven lifestyle readjustment– (more…)
I’m a white conservative evangelical Christian who grew up in Nebraska and Colorado. I own a couple of guns, and I hunt and fish. Yep, I drive a pickup truck and listen to country western music. In my small-town Nebraskan childhood I never met a single black or brown-skinned person. Everyone was white. All ranchers and farmers. All drove trucks with gun racks and an NRA sticker on the back. No lie, my first bumper sticker on my first car said “God created men, Winchester made them equal.” I’m serious! (more…)
The thought of going without food or drink for more than 12 hours a day may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but Ramadan in Dubai, is fun! Growing up in various parts of the Muslim world, I have very nostalgic memories of Ramadan, or the month of Fasting, being about more than abstinence, being actually festive. Families getting together for the meals that signal the start and stop of the fast, everyone making a more conscientious effort to pray, not swear and be mindful of themselves (more…)
I had no idea that Mike Tyson was a muslim until I heard last week that he had traveled to Mecca for umrah (the minor pilgrimage, identical to the Hajj except that umrah can be performed anytime during the year and does not fulfill the muslim’s religious obligation to perform Hajj at least once in a lifetime). (more…)
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