Ma`salaama!

November 4, 2009

This blog is now closed. I’m now making a fresh start over at shahidkamal.com Please join me there!

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Legacy

October 31, 2009

After seeing a good friend today, it occurred to me that re-starting this blog might not have been such a great idea. At this point, I can almost hear some of you groaning, and some of you crying “flip-flop”, but hear me out. Just as there came a time when it made sense for me [...]

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Obama’s Inheritance

October 30, 2009

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The Virtue of Patience

October 14, 2009

My iPhone was taking forever to sync. iTunes was copying some audio books from the Mac in the other room, wirelessly and slowly. Google Maps on Safari stubbornly refused to load the map showing me the location of the theatre where I was meant to pick my daughter up from. Time was running out. I [...]

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Finding Our Way

October 13, 2009

Over at Peace, Bruv, brother Kashif is complaining about possible censorship at Muslim Matters. (Both blogs by the way, make for required reading.) He has my sympathy. This situation did remind me of the difficulties we Muslims face in finding our way to a new equilibrium. Very hard to find your equilibrium when your co-religionists [...]

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Since I’ve Been Gone

October 13, 2009

Although I had decided to close this blog down around three months ago, it might as well have been 30 years ago or more. I mean it’s practically the same old world really: Israel is still a crappy little country full of nasty little people murdering the indigenous population for fun and profit An American [...]

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Hello Again

October 11, 2009

I’ve changed my mind. I have been thinking about starting up a new blog, distancing myself somewhat from this blog’s title and its more negative content over the years. I’ve realise that this would be pointless. I’ve already distanced myself from my older writing. My thinking has changed, that is reflected in the writing. Nothing [...]

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