بسم اللــه الرحمن الرحيم

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Sunday, September 12, 2010

From 9-11 to Pastor Jones
by Ron Jacobs / September 10th, 2010
Like many people who were in Manhattan that day, I can still smell the acrid, industrialized smoke that covered much of the island by the evening of September 11, 2001 and for days thereafter. When I got home to Vermont a couple days later (when the trains started running again), the odor and even the taste of that smoke remained. Naturally, the images of the burning towers and hundreds of missing posters took a while to leave my immediate memory. Meanwhile, for many, the shock and grief so many felt after the events of that day began to change into anger and a desire for revenge. George Bush, the Congress, and the Pentagon obliged within weeks by invading the country of Afghanistan, deciding that the people who lived in that war-torn region would pay for the deaths incurred on the date now known in the United States as 9-11.
That invasion, along with the invasion of Iraq less than two years later did not go so well. Washington finds its troops still in both countries while the costs of these endeavors (along with several lesser military actions) are draining the economy dry. As for that anger and revenge, it has turned into hatred. Like almost all hatred directed at a group of people based on nothing more than how they look or what they believe, this hatred is based on fear born from ignorance. Unfortunately for the hated, there seems to be little desire to unlearn that ignorance. In other words, those invoking the hate are delighting in their stupidity and intend to make that stupidity and all that flows from it the conscience of the land.
Whether it’s the talking heads in the media who have played the building of a community center in Lower Manhattan into a fearmongering circus against Islam that reminds many with a sense of history of many dark times in human history or an idiot pastor of a fifty member church in Florida who wants to burn the Koran, the hatred on display here is beyond shame. There are those who say that such hatred is unAmerican. I only wish that were true. If there is anything that is American, it is fear of the other. Furthermore, all too often that fear turns into something much worse. Just ask any African-American over fifty. If they didn’t experience some kind of racial hatred, they almost certainly have a relative who did.
Some will argue that this is different, but they are wrong. (Furthermore, the hatred being played out in the United States against Muslims is not much different than that directed against Jews throughout European history. The myths being perpetrated regarding Muslim religious beliefs and practices are as incredible as those propagated about the Jewish religion in countries across Europe on and off throughout history. Those myths fed a fear that all too often resulted in the burning of Jewish temples and synagogues, the expulsion of Jewish populations, and mass murder) (THIS IS THE OPINION OF THE WRITER I DO NOT AGREE WITH IT MAHMOUD RAGAEY ALI). One wishes that the historical similarities could be seen by those whose fear and hatred of Islam is currently blinding them.
It’s not enough to wring one’s hands and begrudgingly accept the growing displays of hatred. One must confront them. If Terry Jones has the right to burn Korans, then those who oppose his ignorant and self-aggrandizing display of hatred must seize the higher hand and call out this action for what it is. The fact that Jones has apparently called off the Koran burning does not alter the hatred he promoted. It only makes one wonder what kind of blackmail was used to force his hand. If pundits in the media have the right to fan the flames of hatred by telling lies and half-truths about a community center in Manhattan, then those pundits should also be called out. Doing so doesn’t necessarily express support for any particular religion (or even for religion), but opposition to religious hatred. The reason why we should do this is not because US soldiers may be the victims of reprisals in countries where they don’t belong, but because this hatred is wrong. Not unAmerican, but wrong.

How about this – before anyone burns a book, he should be required to read it first. And then write a book report on it

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

ليلة 21 رمضان في المدينة المنورة

Monday, August 2, 2010

إذا المرءُ لا يرعاكَ إلا تكلُّفاً

هل هذا الذي تريدي رؤيته في مدونتي وإيهما يتبع المرء ؟ الأولي أم الثانية أم كلاهما يؤدي نفس المعنى

إذا المرءُ لا يرعاكَ إلا تكلُّفاً

إِذا المَرءُ لا يَرعاكَ إِلّا تَكَلُّفاً فَدَعهُ وَلا تُكثِر عَلَيهِ التَأَسُّفا
فَفِي النَّاسِ أبْدَالٌ وَفي التَّرْكِ رَاحة ٌ وفي القلبِ صبرٌ للحبيب ولو جفا
فَمَا كُلُّ مَنْ تَهْوَاهُ يَهْوَاكَ قلبهُ وَلا كلُّ مَنْ صَافَيْتَه لَكَ قَدْ صَفَا
إذا لم يكن صفو الوداد طبيعة ً فلا خيرَ في ودٍ يجيءُ تكلُّفا
ولا خيرَ في خلٍّ يخونُ خليلهُ ويلقاهُ من بعدِ المودَّة ِ بالجفا
وَيُنْكِرُ عَيْشاً قَدْ تَقَادَمَ عَهْدُهُ وَيُظْهِرُ سِرًّا كان بِالأَمْسِ قَدْ خَفَا
فسَلامٌ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا إذا لَمْ يَكُنْ بِهَا صديق صدوق صادق الوعد منصفا

عــيـن الـرضـا عن كل عيب كليلة ٍ
ولكنّ عين السخط تبدي المساويا
ولـــســت بـهـيــّاب مــن لا يهابني
ولــست أرى للمرء ما لا يرى ليا
فــان تــدن مـنـي تدن منك مودتي
وان تــنــأ عـنـي, تلقني عنك نائيا
كــلانـــا غـــنـــيّ عـن أخيه حياته
ونــــحـــن اذا مــتـنـا أشـد تـغانيـا

Monday, May 3, 2010

IPHONE CODES

*3001#12345#* and tap Call.
Enter Field Mode. Field mode reveals many of the inner settings of your iPhone, specifically up-to-date network and cell information.

*#06#
Displays your IMEI. No need to tap Call. IMEI is the unique identifier for your cell phone hardware. Together with your SIM information it identifies you to the provider network.

*777# and tap Call.
Account balance for prepaid iPhone.

*225# and tap Call.
Bill Balance. (Postpaid only)

*646# and tap Call.
Check minutes. (Postpaid only) These three are pretty self explanatory.

*#21# and tap Call.
Setting interrogation for call forwards. Discover the settings for your call forwarding. You'll see whether you have voice, data, fax, sms, sync, async, packet access, and pad access call forwarding enabled or disabled.

*#30# and tap Call.
Calling line presentation check. This displays whether you have enabled or disabled the presentation of the calling line, presumably the number of the party placing the call.

*#76# and tap Call.
Check whether the connected line presentation is enabled or not. State whether the connected line presentation is enabled or disabled. Presumably similar to the calling line presentation.

*#43# and tap Call.
Determine if call waiting is enabled. Displays call waiting status for voice, data, fax, sms, sync data, async data, packet access and pad access. Each item is either enabled or disabled.

*#61# and tap Call.
Check the number for unanswered calls. Show the number for voice call forwarding when a call is unanswered. Also show the options for data, fax, sms, sync, async, packet access and pad access.

*#62# and tap Call.
Check the number for call forwarding if no service is available. Just like the previous, except for no-service rather than no-answer situations.

*#67# and tap Call.
Check the number for call forwarding when the iPhone is busy.And again, but for when the iPhone is busy.

*#33# and tap Call.
Check for call control bars. Check all the usual suspects (voice, data, fax, sms, etc) to see whether barring is enabled or disabled for outgoing.