August 2012
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Muslim Atheist: Unprovable things →
muslimatheist:
Lets think like scientists!
A man or a woman that your village knows and loves gathers everyone in the village square. After an elegant speech he then proceeds to engage in an act that is completely unexplainable and so amazing that everyone in the village is awestruck. Perhaps he breaks a huge…
Interesting blog.
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July 2012
2 posts
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The Function of Faith
Faith has a function.
It’s function is not to describe reality but rather to create it and facilitate personal-tribal-social-national processes. You need faith for money. These little pieces of paper would work if we didn’t think or believe they worked. You need faith for any type of hierarchical system that seeks to govern with authority, no one would do what the government or their...
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June 2012
5 posts
Anonymous asked: do still consider urself a muslim ?
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April 2012
2 posts
Thoughts over Sexual Harassment
Once I was driving a guy I don’t know that well home from kickboxing practice. On the way he spotted two well endowed, tightly clothed girls walking by and before I could do anything proceeded to make kissing sounds and grabbing motions with his hands. Enraged, I gave him a lecture that included a religious sermon, an emotional appeal and a quasi logical gimmick of how this sort of behavior...
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Short reflection: Political Islam
الأحزاب الاسلامية و خطابات “تطبيق الشريعة” تكشف مفهوم قشري للدين وغير-علمية في فهم العالم والتاريخ. بدليل الأداء المخزي للتيار الديني في السنة السابقة.
عدم استخدام الخطاب الديني في الدعاية وللحشد السياسي ليس معناه أن “مفيش دين”. معناها أن العبرة بالطرح السياسي، وليست بزعمك أنك تمشي حسب خطة إلهية لا تحتمل النقد أو الجدال.
أيمن الظواهري يزعم أنه يمشي بالقرأن والسنة، الشيخ...
February 2012
3 posts
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We create our idols
النهارده الصبح سيارتي إتكلبشتم فذهبت للظباط وكلمهتم بإحترام فسألني أحذهم بإحترام عن الرخص فأعطيته إياه. بعث معي عسكري ليفك الكلبش، العملية مرت بسلاسة. كان هناك سيارة أخرى أتكلبشت، صدمني أن جاء صاحب السيارة منحني الرأس، مقوقس الظهر و مكسور العين يقول “يا باشا احنا جيرانكم هنا هه،” أشار إلى عمارةٍ ما “واحنا تحت أمركم يا فندم” فأخرج من جيبه شوكولاتة كيت كات وأعطاها للعسكري...
Pray for Syria!
i-living-islam:
Please remember Syria in your prayers. And, please pray for the people of Syria! May Allah help those innocent men, women and children who are continuously attacked by the heartless dictator and his despicable regime.
January 2012
7 posts
من أعز الأيات القرأنية علي
من أعز الأيات القرأنية علي: ” وإذا قيل لهم اتبعوا ما أنزل الله قالوا بل نتبع ما ألفينا عليه آباءنا, أولو كان آباؤهم لا يعقلون شيئا ولا يهتدون!?” “إذ تبرأ الذين اتبعوا من الذين اتبعوا ورأوا العذاب وتقطعت بهم الأسباب…” المسلم، وغير المسلم، في الحقيقة غير ملزم إلا بضميره وفهمه للدين والواقع. لذلك لم يجعل الله في الإسلام لنا كهنوت، رسمياً كان أو غير رسمي. ولذلك جعل لك...
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Reflections #Jan25
Concrete streets shook with the righteous thundering of feet on pavement. The air was crisp and the sky was clear, God himself was marching with us.
We were destroying repressive barriers in our mind with each security line we broke through. As our numbers grew the fear suddenly evaporated and was replaced with an ecstatic pride. Housewives cheered us on from the balconies as we reclaimed the...
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خواطر حول الإيمان
خواطر حول الإيمان
شاع المعتقد بين الناس أن “الإيمان” هو مجرد “الإعتقاد”، وهذه فكرة خطيرة وخطرة، إذ تفتح باباً “للتكفير الكامل” وهذا يقود إلى فكرة “التجريد من الإنسانية” و هو مبرر أي عمل عنيف أو عنصري، كما أثبت العلم الحديث والدهر.
أيضاً، من الأفكار المدمرة المترتبة على هذا المعتقد، أن “زيادة” الإيمان تكون مجرد زيادة إعتقاد،...
Optimistic thoughts
You hear a lot of complaining about how Egyptians are stupid, lazy, uneducated, etc, etc…
You also hear a lot about how Egypt will never rise because Egyptians have all these negative qualities…
You know what? They are partially right.
But here’s why I’m optimistic.
Over the past few months, I have come across a few very bad car accidents. Every time this happened,...
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Socrates
The father of philosophy, he would go to the market place and randomly ask people deep philosophical questions such as ‘what is virtue?’ or ‘what is justice?’.
He was an oddball of a man, eccentric to say the least. A retired veteran, he took to roaming the street barefoot and led a life of preaching and aestheticism.
His mission was a noble one, to inspire men (women...
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Hope
I was in a pretty bad mood, all the negative aspects of existence seemed to be attacking my brain all at the same time. I was driving back home form Maadi through the remote area on Salah Salem when I found a man sleeping on the ground. I instinctively slowed down and kept watching him in my rear view mirror. Someone had stopped and was holding his arms now. I realized that he had passed out and I...
December 2011
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Rage Against The Machine
You must understand, the revolution may continue long after we are dead.
The system we are raging against is only part of a wider, global system. The waves of protests that have spread from east to west with such speed and passion are not spontaneous, they are anything but. They are signs of a discontent that reaches very deeply into the minds and hearts of people from all across the globe....
November 2011
2 posts
Anonymous asked: Did you ever draw comics ? Do you think you may do it in the future ? When I see your drawings I think they would perfectly fit in a metaphysical quantic sf comic, I'm sure you'd write awesome scenarios, in the "Matrix" spirit !
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October 2011
6 posts
An Unusual Post (for me)
The horror of love is that it is, by nature, the surrender of a substantial amount of control over one’s disposition and life. It is in essence a substantive surrender of power. But to have it returned is an affirmation, most arresting and intoxicating, of one’s own power, for he or she has successfully triggered a similar action in someone else’s mind and body. There lies...
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A personal definition of Art
I have always struggled to define art. Actually, philosophers and artists have always struggled to define art. I decided to make my own definition, here goes.
“Art is the careful application of skillful devotion and intense emotional attention to something in which a complex human experience seeks to clarify itself outside the creator’s mind”
I think this solves the “how...
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Using Islam to hate
Some dudes are using Islam to tell me we shouldn’t feel anything about Steve Jobs’ death. Screw them, they’re not even human.
Compassion, sympathy, love, brotherhood are not only reserved for fellow Muslims. This is an abomination of any virture humanity has believed in We obsess over the technicalities of being a Muslim, the actual substance of the faith becomes a secondary...
September 2011
7 posts
bendary asked: what martial arts do you practice???
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Islamic reflection
Removing your limited knowledge and intelligence, environment and the historical accumulation of the tradition from the equation when approaching scripture is, in my opinion, the highest form of blaspheme. We form most of our conceptions of God as children. Rarely do we ever develop or refine those conceptions…
Islamic thought has to evolve past el Ghazali and Ibn Taymeya....
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Thoughts about the #Israeliembassy events
We all watched what happened yesterday, we all reacted with varying degreees of shock, fear, pride and most of all confusion.
I personally view Israel as a consequence of a much larger, historical problem rather than a huge problem in and of its self. The true enemy is American neo-colonialism, the latest face of western imperialistic ambitions.
I personally wasn’t very excited to go to...
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Ethics and religiosity are not necessarily...
However, true spirituality and a feeling of oness with the earth and brotherhood amongst men should nurture good ethics.
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Romantic ideas about existence
And then there was the universe. Everything in comprehensible existence has in one form or another existed ever since. Everything from the molecules in your nose to the light beams being emitted by your computer screen has existed since the beginning, since the big bang, as one form or another of matter or energy. Everything is intimately connected.
The universe evolves, it evolved and evolved...
“Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you’re feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm?...”
– This is the story of my life.
God help us all.
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August 2011
4 posts
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“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you look into the...”
– This quote is most close to my mind always…
In fighting religious extremisim, I have become an extremist my self. I respect no opinion except that which I agree with.
I looked into atheism, it looked into me.
The pathway to sagehood is humility.
Anonymous asked: chocolate or poop?
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The conservatives are not the devil
سؤال , هل عندما نزلت الشارع أيام الثورة, و واجهت عصيان الأمن المركزي, و استنشقت الغاز المسيل للدموع , و طلق عليك الرصاص المطاطي و الحي كنت تبحث عن مقعد سلطة؟ هل و أنت تترك خلفك أمك و هي تبكي لكي تلتحق بالمظاهرات كنت تشترط أن يأتي البرادعي رئيسا لمصر؟ أم كنت تريد حرية هذا الوطن و إستقلال أفراده؟
الخوف و الفزع من الغير معتاد ساق الناس أن يستمعوا لوساوس الشيطان. إذ قال لي صديقي وهو من الثوار و هو من...
July 2011
8 posts
Wisdom I have learned from Martial arts
· The only effective movement is “natural movement”.
· You cannot force movement on something that does not move.
· Energy must travel through its natural course.
· You are most vulnerable when you attack
· You must learn to absorb your opponent’s momentum and use it against him, this is what will make you the most lethal.
· A small...
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Eye Witness 23rd July 2011
I wasn’t very excited about the march towards the ministry of defense, so after following some of the tweeps on twitter, I decided I was going to take a nap and maybe join them when they reached their destination. I over slept, but when I woke up I opened twitter and found that people were talking about violence and thugs and what not. I called my trusty friend, Wasfi, and we drove near el...
aforsakenwandereroftheworld asked: salam
where you in Tahrir during the protests? If possible, do you happen to have any of the 'slogans' that were chanted there? I've a mini project and am looking for any poetry or photos from various protests thats have taken/are taking place across the middle east. I appreciate your time.
:)
where you in Tahrir during the protests? If possible, do you happen to have any of the 'slogans' that were chanted there? I've a mini project and am looking for any poetry or photos from various protests thats have taken/are taking place across the middle east. I appreciate your time.
:)
Anonymous asked: You amaze me, Allah yekattar men amthalak.
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How Governments Lie, very relevant
I’m just going to let one of my ‘sheikhs’ so to speak, tell you exactly how, learn and enjoy.
Noam Chomsky - “10 strategies of manipulation” by the media
1. The strategy of distraction
The primary element of social control is the strategy of distraction which is to divert public attention from important issues and changes determined by the political and economic...
خواطر حول الداخلية
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
أول احتكاك لي مع جهاز أمن الدولة كان ظابطين يرتدون اللبس المدني يظبطوا رجل سلفي غلبان جدا بعد صلاة الجمعة مباشرة و كانوا يضربونه على القفا و يشتمونه. أول ما جئت ادافع عن احدهم ضربني بالقلم على وجهي. بعد لحظة من الازبهلال و لحظة اخرى اتذكر فيها كل ما تعلمته من الكونج فو في السينين الماضية و أخيرا لحظة أخيرة قررت ان اقتل الرجل…سب احدهم الدين بصوت عالي. الناس اجتمعت...
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We almost don't exist
The very strangest thing about the universe is that it exists. Stranger still, ridiculously, we are here to witness this vast, majestic orchestra of energy and matter playing out in three dimensions plus time. We not only have the ability to 1. observe 2. understand and 3. appreciate the vast awesomeness that is the universe, we also have the overwhelming drive, urge and inititive to do so.
We...
“” My thoughts rip through tank-armored metalplates
And start to resenate...”
– Immortal technique lyrics from the song ‘Front line’. Powerful, even thought I don’t believe that Jesus was ever crucified or raised from the dead.
The way I understand it that when he said “The place that the Prophet Muhammad started to levitate” he was referring to...
June 2011
7 posts
