Women

During a discussion on Islamic issues somebody asked me to speak and quite proudly said;

"Yeah I'm willing to listen to what anyone has to say, I'll listen to a woman.. I'll listen to a CHILD if it can learn from it!". 

As if women are on the same level as children, and this brother seemed rather smug that he was willing to be humble enough to listen to a female. 

*sigh*

My Mosaic

Here's my mosaic, answering these 12 questions that I've seen on Organic Muslimah, Boba and 'Liya's blogs.

Rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into
 Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into
fd’s mosaic maker.
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

Another reason our role models don't include models..

As if we needed another reason to turn away from the materialistic culture of celebdom. 

Brigitte Bardot has been convicted of inciting religious hatred and discrimination after she wrote a letter attacking Muslims. 

 "tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts."

Brigitte is here referring to Eid al Adha, where an animal is slaughtered.

Okay, so the woman is an animals rights activist. So why does she attack Muslims? 

French slaughter houses mass kill horses, pigs and who-else-knows-what in a commercial environment. These animals live in terrible conditions, are fed on other meat products, they are killed infront of each other in a cruel manner and the profit goes towards huge companies ready to spend the money to exploit and rip off consumers in a variety of ways. 

Slaughtering an animal on Eid is done in a halal way. This means it is humane. Muslims slaughter animals in a way which involves much less suffering and what's more, the benefits of the meat are not wasted and go to poor people.  Muslims are a minority in France. I wonder why Brigitte is focussing on a humane, hardly used method of killing animals to eat while thousands of animals in the same country are having their rights horribly infringed upon, as creations of God.