Posted on March 30, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Hassan Butt says below that we need to have an open dialogue and counter this wacky and blood thirsty ideology. However, Mr. Butt - although he is still Muslim - still seems to blame Islam itself for the nuttery he learned in the cult he was involved with. That is another one of the danger of these crazy [...]
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Posted on March 29, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
It is stories like the one below that make people keep their children at home while not teaching them anything there either. Then they bring the child to school at five - knowing nothing at all - and afraid of their own shadow expecting the teachers to perform a miracle.
I really think that children need [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Orange Juice with Calcium. Tums with calcium. Peanut Butter with Omega-3. Green Muck. Costly, but is it worth it? What about a head of organic lettuce for $5?
You’re in the grocery store shopping for a carton of orange juice for tomorrow’s breakfast and you’re faced with a decision—plain old juice or, for no extra cost, [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
…no kidding. This story says that hard work could help them if they are not naturally gifted.
Turns out that sheer intelligence is not enough to become a young math whiz. It also takes a good attention span and training your mind to “self regulate” or focus on the task at hand.
The measure for academic success [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
After this case in the UK, there is now a case here in the States of Child Protection threatening to seize a grossly obese child. While the mother says that her 250lb son eats like a ‘normal boy’, when I watched the video and saw the list of what she is feeding him, I noticed that he [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Can’t say that I have noticed such a trend where more blacks are accepting Islam than before, but ….
The wooden house in Pittsburgh’s rundown Homewood neighborhood looks like any other on the block. But the sign at the door, Masjid Mumin, and the rows of shoes lined up inside on gray, plastic shelves hint of the [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
I feel that understanding this attitude is important because many of them bring this same attitude into Islam and dress it with righteous vocabulary. If a black child is asking another one “why aren’t you acting black?” it is the same as asking “why aren’t you underachieving and acting ignorant?”. An entire culture of underachievement [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
We are too much of a Meat and Potatoes nation…
Fewer than a third of American adults eat the amount of fruits and vegetables the government recommends, a trend that’s remained steady for more than a decade, health officials said Thursday
Veggies - especially green leafy ones - are also said to be good for the brain
So we [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
Parts of Detroit look like a war zone, but there is often opportunity in cheap housing. At some point someone will come in, buy cheap, fix it all up, change the name of the neighborhood and the prices will skyrocket. This article will probably even have some speculators making a few phone calls already
With bidding stalled on [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2007 by Tariq Nelson
This article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription only) talks about young people in Muslim countries and their struggle to reconcile their lives as Muslims with modern times.
A play about an imaginary country grappling with foreign meddling recently opened on stage here. Combining comedy with serious words extolling the importance of faith and ethics, “The Code” was just the [...]
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