"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."

MARX

In The Holy Family (1845), he explained this paradox succinctly: "The slavery of civil society is in appearance the greatest freedom because it is in appearance the fully developed independence of the individual, who considers as his own

freedom the uncurbed movement, no longer bound by a common bond or by man, of the estranged elements of his life, such as property, industry, religion, etc., whereas actually this is his fully developed slavery and inhumanity"

Anouar Majid!!! great readings.

With the exception of a few rules in the Qur'an, one can negotiate any ideology within thewide and amorphous parameters of the faith. In the medieval period, Islam "permitted many

schools of thought, great freedom of thought, and tremendous development of philosophical and scientific thinking"(Rodinson 1981, 66). p.332 Majid 1998

abus corner

my dad emailed me today and said,

"***** found the boy on the internet....he is white but seems to be very oriental from manners and a nice person. KH and love mom and abu"

im thinking what the hell is oriental manners ABU!!!!!!!!!! also is this my dad implicitly telling me i should join jdate.com

"the personal is political"

'Can feminists say that their faith is personal and has nothing to do with the public, while still upholding that the personal is the political?' (Nighat Said Khan, 1993: x).

Carol Hanisch is a radical feminist and was an important member of New York Radical Women. She is best known for popularizing the phrase "The Personal is Political" in a 1969 essay of the same name. She was a leader of the feminist movement in the 70s and was famously known for protesting the Miss America Pageant.

The personal is political was important as it addresses the private domain and that what goes in with in the home is very much impacted by historical, social and political contexts. So domestic abuse, and women's unequal share of domestic work, the nuclear family can not be simply pushed away as private matters or seen as natural.

Khwaja Ghulam Farid---anti imperialist poet

Husn e Haqiqi – Beauty of Truth

O’ Beauty of Truth, the Eternal Light!
Do I call you necessity and possibility,
Do I call you the ancient divinity,
The One, creation and the world,
Do I call you free and pure Being,
Or the apparent lord of all,
Do I call you the souls, the egos and the intellects,
The imbued manifest, and the imbued hidden,
The actual reality, the substance,
The word, the attribute and dignity,
Do I call you the variety, and the circumstance,
The demeanor, and the measure,
Do I call you the throne and the firmament,
And the demurring delights of Paradise,
Do I call you mineral and vegetable,
Animal and human,
Do I call you the mosque, the temple, the monastery,
The scriptures, the Quran,
The rosary, the girdle,
Godlessness, and faith,
Do I call you the clouds, the flash, the thunder,
Lightning and the downpour,
Water and earth,
The gust and the inferno,
Do I call you Lakshmi, and Ram and lovely Sita,
Baldev, Shiv, Nand, and Krishna,
Brahma, Vishnu and Ganesh,
Mahadev and Bhagvaan,
Do I call you the Gita, the Granth, and the Ved,
Knowledge and the unknowable,
Do I call you Abraham, Eve and Seth,
Noah and the deluge,
Abraham the friend, and Moses son of Amran,
And Ahmad the glorious, darling of every heart,
Do I call you the witness, the Lord, or Hejaz,
The awakener, existence, or the point,
Do I call you admiration or prognosis,
Nymph, fairy, and the young lad,
The tip and the nip,
And the redness of betel leaves,
The Tabla and Tanpura,
The drum, the notes and the improvisation,
Do I call you beauty and the fragrant flower,
Coyness and that amorous glance,
Do I call you Love and knowledge,
Superstition, belief, and conjecture,
The beauty of power, and conception,
Aptitude and ecstasy,
Do I call you intoxication and the drunk,
Amazement and the amazed,
Submission and the connection,
Compliance and Gnosticism,
Do I call you the Hyacinth, the Lilly, and the Cypress,
And the rebellious Narcissus,
The bereaved Tulip, the Rose garden, and the orchard,
Do I call you the dagger, the lance, and the rifle,
The hail, the bullet, the spear,
The arrows made of white poplar, and the bow,
The arrow-notch, and the arrowhead,
Do I call you colorless, and unparalleled,
Formless in every instant,
Glory and holiness,
Most glorious and most compassionate,
Repent now Farid forever!
For whatever I may say is less,
Do I call you the pure and the humane,
The Truth without trace or name.

Translation by Arieb Azhar