Roundup for September 2010
This is the monthly report #3 in the form of story line for posts written in between December 2009 and September 2010 where I covered various issues.
Synopsis: blog entries roundup for September 2010
Story Line: A Cry for Mankind on Earth was a message from another human being to the leaders who attended the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference that was organized in Denmark in December 2009.
Nevertheless, I wondered about the situation of human interaction Beyond saving Earth from another parallel perspective to the climate changes. Aside from this issue, the end of December 2009 witnessed not only turning to the New Year 2010 but also my participation in Kolena Laila 3rd year event through Laila in La-La Land that discussed situation of Arab/Muslim women in the 21st century.
As the New Year come, regular readers of this blog might have noticed that it went on hiatus for five months, during the period between January-May. Later on in May, I returned back and announced that I was just recovering from a long illness, which lead to another discussion about the actions that a person can take for positioning oneself during hard times like the ones I faced.
Consequently due the recovering process, the blog went offline for another three months between May-August; however at last it went back online as told in Blog resumes after Pause in 2010. After returning this return, there were different issues to place reflections on them. On the one hand, the first issue was A Muslim in Ramadan where I placed reflections about what this holy month is supposed to mean for Muslims who follow Islam. The second issue was exploring the aftermath of 2010 Pakistan Floods Relief and listing resources for helping people. The third issue was wondering about Reading Arabic, is it that Hard through tackling a news report on the BBC.
On the other hand, September holds a memory for an event that affected all human being since 2001. Hereby, I discussed the situation Nine Years after 9/11 in America while preparing to start future posts during the following months that deals with presenting Anti-Islamophobia Vaccine as a cure for this rising trend.
End of the story: It is September! Do you how that this month witness an astronomical phenomenon (or phenomena) known as Autumnal Equinox? Check the National Geographic article for this more info.
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Anti-Islamophobia Vaccine
Islamophobia is not a new issue in my opinion yet the sheer magnitude of its actions is constantly rising after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Although I understand the fear of terrorism committed by terrorists who follow the twisted ideology of al-Qaeda, I find Islamophobes are playing the mix and match game against Islam, Muslims and their culture in order to serve their own agenda. Such unfair extreme games don’t differ from the ones played by radical extremists; however both are blind enough to see this and have hijacked the mentalities of people through their words and actions.
Anti-Islamophobia Vaccine
I have four points to reflect before starting the discussions about this issue:
- I don’t have any problem with anybody’s religious status; human beings are free to believe in whatever they want. My problem, however, is in the process of hunting freedom of speech by some people for whatever reasons.
- Ignorance means we don’t know. This isn’t a problem since we don’t know many things about each other as human beings who belong to different cultures. The problem, however, is misusing this ignorance to be bad knowledge like islamophobics do.
- Islamophobia is done by islamophobes who are islamophobic and proud of it. I believe they are exposing their own bigotry that is fueled by the mixture of hate plus ignorance which is common among many human beings regardless the faith or race.
- Islamophpbia is a wide umbrella that has cross-linked topics. Hereby, I except to deal with reflections on some of the misconceptions plus stereotypes about Islam, Muslims and Arabs.
Few years ago, I have discussed the broad lines of Islamophobia in the post entitled Scary Movie of the 21st Century plus other specific topics; however it is noticeable for me how this is still echoing nine years after 9/11 in America and Europe. For that matter, my future posts shall deal with trials for presenting anti-islamophobia as a vaccine for the islamophobia virus through posting different blog entries that deals with it from my perspective since knowledge help us to understand better aside from the hysterical way. Hopefully (insha’allah) these posts can be part of the efforts to answer the question illustrated by Clay Bennette in the cartoon “Islamophobia Vaccine” that can be accessed at Center for American Progress website under the Cartoons section.
Finally, I don’t post a lot, so if you are interested in following up with my old blog entries, you are welcome to check Blography (the blog archive) from the top menu. Now back to the future, until new posts are out in October and beyond, enjoy your time!
Related Quotes and Sayings
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.— George Bernard Shaw
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Nine Years after 9/11 in America
Nine years have passed since the terrorist 9/11 attacks in 2001 struck United States of America yet the aftermath is still echoing. Although I am not an American citizen, I blog about this tragedy since it has affected Muslims on the minor and major scales regarding their image plus their countries through the War on Terror plus the impact on the human beings and international relations on different aspects.
USA State Map
I’ve previously elaborated during the 7th and 8th commemorations (or anniversaries) in September 2008 and September 2009 respectively about Islam, Muslims and USA. Hence in September 2010, this ninth year after 9/11 attacks seems to me a different one from its predecessors since I think America has changed on different aspects that I am tying to analyze while sharing you with my reflections in this blog entry.
America & Changes
In my perspective, USA is facing changes on the ninth anniversary (or commemoration) of 9/11 attacks. Firstly, one and half year has passed since electing Barack Obama as the 44th POTUS with a “Democratic Administration” that was the successor of the “Republican Administration” under George W. Bush presidency.
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