Articles of Interest 7/2/07
- The need for vitamin D in children -
In this latest installment, the implications of inadequate D levels are linked to autism, analyzed by factors of race and latitude – the determinant of intensity of sunlight. Autism, a psychiatric disorder of childhood characterized by marked deficits in cognitive and intellectual development, represents the tip-of-the-iceberg analysis of vitamin D effects on women of childbearing age, pregnancies, and fetal and early childhood development through adulthood.
If autism is, in any part, the worse possible result of epidemic-levels of vitamin D deficiency, showing itself in 6 of each 1000 children (US), how might millions of children and adults manifest lesser symptoms in ways that correlate to D levels from the melanin in their skin and the amount of sunlight they are getting each day?
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So not only are we coming to understand that the higher rates of internal cancers, diabetes, hypertension, et al, in black adults has correlated origin in vitamin D deficiencies, but that black children are likely at the front of the line of getting short-changed in their neurodevelopment, beginning nine months before taking their first breath.
NOTE: The above is a far cry from saying that blacks are genetically inferior
- What’s going on with UK Muslims?
There should be a degree of maturity here from British Muslims and a recognition that the police may have to step on a few toes in their investigations in order to prevent massive deaths and we should pray that they succeed in their efforts insha’Allah. This does not mean you should forget about your rights and let yourselves be trampled and act like second-class citizens, it simply means you should live in the real world. After all, does anyone seriously think that the Saudi police would exercise much restraint of a Filipino movement using terror emerged in the kingdom or a Chinese one emerged in Indonesia?
Yet another humiliating setback for the Muslims in UK courtesy of the nutters. Why does there seem to be so many maniacs over there? We will have to work harder to defeat the ideology of murder being spread to make sure this type of crap stops
- My plea to fellow Muslims: you must renounce terror
But there is a more fundamental reasoning that has struck me and a number of other people who have recently left radical Islamic networks as a far more potent argument because it involves stepping out of this dogmatic paradigm and recognizing the reality of the world: Muslims don’t actually live in the bipolar world of the Middle Ages any more.
The fact is that Muslims in Britain are citizens of this country. We are no longer migrants in a Land of Unbelief. For my generation, we were born here, raised here, schooled here, we work here and we’ll stay here. But more than that, on a historically unprecedented scale, Muslims in Britain have been allowed to assert their religious identity through clothing, the construction of mosques, the building of cemeteries and equal rights in law.
Filed under: Black American Muslims, Changing World, Children's Issues, Muslim Isolation
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I believe tahat there are more maniacs in the US…Jeffery Dahmer, Tim McVeuigh…The 9-11 crew..the question may be better posed with when wqill it end?
A most excellent post. Inshallah, even more vitamin D will be placed in milk and other foods.
Ya Haqq!
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I think our Ulema must stand up in full support of Vitamin D. Personally, I support Vitamin D.
Assalamualaikum
I just saw that you quoted from Hassan Butt at the end of your blog. I don’t know if you are aware of who he is but he has made some terrible allegations about Islam in the last few days. He seems to feel that we need to reform Islam in order to become acceptable to western society. I completely disagree and I feel disappointed that somehow you agree with him. There is an excellent article refuting some of what he says and well as giving background of who he is on ummahpulse.co.uk. Have a look at it.
Wassalam
Sr Saffiyah
http://ummahpulse.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=145&Itemid=37
Saiffiyah
wa alaykum as-salaam
I don’t agree with everything Mr Butts says but I do agree with the part I quoted in that we do not live in a bipolar world. Many mistakes were made looking at things like that. I know brothers with that mentality that curse their own mothers and feel it is permissible to steal from non Muslims. This is a mistaken way of looking at things and it leads to stagnated thinking. As I said before about Hassan Butts, I do not think the problem is rooted in Islam itself, but in crazy interpretations like that. Most Muslims do NOT believe this way, but enough do that make it dangerous for all of us.
Further for far too long in too many masaajid we have had hatred being spewed (particularly before 9/11) from the minbar that a person with a mental problem can take and run with and do unreasonable things. To whatever extent this is still done, it needs to stop because there are just too many people out there that are not mentally competent.
Many of the jihadists consider the blood, wealth and honor of non-Muslims to be permissible to take and claim to have theological backing for these things. Has there been a credible refutation of this interpretation other than the fact that most Muslims find it reprehensible that will make the jihadists put their arms down?
“I think our Ulema must stand up in full support of Vitamin D. Personally, I support Vitamin D.”
Haha!
Assalamualaikum
I think we can all agree with your examples (at least any right thinking person can agree with them). However we do not need to reform Islam in order to move away from such examples of agression and hatred. Butt’s contention is that we do need to reform Islam. I agree with Karima Hamdan when she writes that ‘we need to reform ourselves and follow Islam’.
Wassalam
Saffiyah
I agree with Karima Hamdan when she writes that ‘we need to reform ourselves and follow Islam’.
Isn’t this what everyone (within reason) says? It sounds like a cop out to me. Don’t we need to reform our faulty understanding of Islam and not Islam itself?
Brother Farooq,
I wish it were a cop out and everyone would accept this as a statement of fact, however we are increasingly finding in the UK that there are many Muslims like Hassan Butt who are given great prominence by the media and are definitely calling for Islam to be changed. I wonder if this is the same in the US.
Wassalam
Saffiyah