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Sunday, 25 October 2009


  • There are five major pillars of the Muslim religion.
    1. Testimony of Faith by announcing "There is no god, but Allah, and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah," and believing
    a) To reject all the false gods.
    b) To accept Allah as the only sole creator of everything.
    c) To Mohammad as the last messenger of Allah.
    2. Prayer
    Muslims must pray five times a day facing Mecca.
    3. Almsgiving, which is giving money to charity.
    4. Fasting
    5. Pilgrimage to Mecca
    The two divisions of the faith between the sunnis and the Shiites stemmed from deciding who the successor to Muhammed would be.

    Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab was a scholar from present-day Saudia Arabia who developed a separate school of Islamic thought called Wahhabism, which focused on bringing to follow the traditional rules and guidelines first set out by the Holy Prophet Muhammed.

Friday, 11 September 2009

  • the sun: 

    A lot of stories aboutabout Soccer. For instance, there's one about devil worshiping fans who support hate monering in football stadiums. In comparison, the DallasMorning News mentions socer briefly but Tim Cowlishaw does devote an article to the Dallas Cowboys.

     Al Jazeera's front page mentions 9/11 in an article titled " US remembers 9/11," and dedicates a section toward the end about the current war in Afghanistan. Most of the article is devoid of partasianship as far as I can tell and contains virtually no sensationalism. Juxtaposed to Al Jazeera, the Sun contains a lot of it. Their only story about 9/11 is mostly about Charlie Sheen and his claim that the U.S. Government was behind it. The Dallas Morning News takes an approach similiar to that of Al Jazeera in that it simply takes a look back at the event without sensationalizing it.

    I prefer Al Jazeera the most -- except for when it comes to Sports. Soccer isn't a sport; it's a theatrical performance.

Tuesday, 01 September 2009

  • About myself.

    I took this personality test back in D.C. last semester and came up with these results:



    "INFJs are scarce, little more than one percent of the population, and can be hard to get to know, since they tend not to share their innermost thoughts or their powerful emotional reactions except with their loved ones. They are highly private people, with an unusually rich, complicated inner life. Friends or colleagues who have known them for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that Counselors are flighty or scattered; they value their integrity a great deal, but they have mysterious, intricately woven personalities which sometimes puzzle even them."

    I believe that sums a lot of my personality. The most interesting part to me is the first sentence. No wonder I'm so weird.
    Currently
    Stay What You Are
    By Saves the Day
    Hold
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Tuesday, 28 October 2003

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