People have the right to resist annihilation.

Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.

Arundhati Roy

Sheikha Mozah

elegant, graceful, and modest.. my favourite style Icon.

And tomorrow, there will be for my ummah,
A palace in the sky,decorated by lighted torches
And tomorrow, when the truth inevitably rises


Sheikh Mishary- I weep for Syria

neshat

today I looked at Shirin Neshat's photos at three thirty am in the morning...she captures post-revolution Iranian women in a palpable way, exposing the intricacies of religion, violence and nation-building in relation to women's bodies and identities in Iran......

sadness.

These things may seem ridiculous to others, even as ridiculous as they were in themselves but to me they were the most tormenting cogitations.

John Bunyon, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

"bible thumpers" in Islam

Amongst the Muslim women we have way too many preachers who dont practice what they so devoutly preach!!!! Yes we are all sinners, I m the biggest one. But if you want to go around openly preaching, than hey how about actually instilling what you so sincerely believe in. "Bible Thumpers" is a term designated for Christians who like to go around preaching, aggressively in public, and reprimanding individuals openly. (Interestingly enough, you should look at the qualities of a munafiq) I found that this is quite similar to Muslims who go around with their self righteous attitudes trying to morally correct everyone. I guessed they missed Sunday school madrasa class on 'humility 101'.

What I find most annoying out of this bunch is what i call "The Alexis Bellino complex"...Alexis Bellino is a Real Orange County housewife, she has fake Double D's, wears skirts to her butt, but says her husband is her Master, she is his slave and preaches Christianity through out the show. She consistently talks about what it means to be a good Christian woman, while degrading and objectifying her own body and perpetuating close minded right winged republican crap on television.

What I realized, is the Muslim community has its own dumbass Alexis Bellino types. Who go around preaching hate, ignorance, and wacky perspectives on the Islamic faith. Im sorry darling but you are definitely not my authority on Islam, so could you please on behalf of the community SHUT UP.

Im sorry but if you wear in a mini skirt, drink alcohol and cuss for living please do not give me the 411 on how to wear hijaab or practice my Islam (actually STOP PREACHING IN GENERAL). Also stop telling other nikaabis (the face veil) about what you think liberation is, and empowerment is as a woman. Start with yourself..... I barely do my part on my deen, and avoid any occasion of being a public preacher. So why dont you humble yourself and do us all favour shut up and get off the pulpit.

Thanks...than come back and we will discuss my reasoning and why I am where I am..and why I dress like this.

Come to me with sincerity not to blast me (clearly than your not my friend your just trying to humiliate me and call me out on my faults.)

saba mahmood. politics of piety

"Indeed, if we accept the notion that all forms of desire are discursively organized (as much of recent feminist scholarship has argued), then it is important to interrogate the practical and conceptual conditions under which different forms of desire emerge, including desire for submission to recognized authority. We cannot treat as natural and imitable only those desires that ensure the emergence of feminist politics."