Fact-finding civil society teams and their predictable findings
One would have thought that the death of the leader of the police team involved in the shootout with terrorists in New Delhi’s Jamia Nagar would silence the predictable apologists for who every “encounter” is a false one.
It turns out that Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma’s death was not […]

Dare I tell you that this venture all started for me last week when I was rereading some Jane Lead and she mentioned that the Holy Spirit births a NEW SPIRIT for you!??!?!?!
Well, I ruminated and communed with the Lord over this issue and some other points raised by Jane in her writings until I […]

This has been around for a few days, but there are reports that there may be a backdoor in Skype which allows call interception by authorized parties.

According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a […]

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan is leaving Islamabad on October 14,2008, on an official visit to China. Thereafter, he will be attending the Asia Europe Summit, whis is being hosted by China this […]

I almost fell out of the taxi, holding baby J under one arm and dragging out her buggy behind me. Source of great amusement to the devout beggars lining the sidewalk around the mosque. Baby J waved wildly at the old men and got big smiles in return. Having broken the ice, I asked the […]

E-Passports Can Be Hacked and Cloned in Minutes

A computer researcher proved it by cloning the chips in two British passports and then implanting digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. Both passports passed as genuine by UN approved passport reader software. The entire process took less than an hour.
If it involves electronics; […]

The Jewel of Madina is a new book about the life of Ayesha (RA)’s life from her marriage to the end of the Prophet’s life (SAW). Apparently it is also soft core pornography with no respect whatsoever accorded to our Mother or to our Holy Prophet (SAW). Al-Hamdulillah, it has been postponed for […]

Sorry I’ve been neglecting this blog. Between Twitter, OrangePolitics, and FORpeace, I’m getting my self-expression fix pretty effectively I guess. Here’s a post I just wrote for the work blog.
The repercussions of last week’s shooting at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville are echoing around the country. Is this the inevitable conclusion of decades […]

Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to […]

Which is the most popular country among the 6 Middle Eastern Gulf states?
Bahrain? Kuwait? Oman? Qatar? Saudi Arabia? Or the United Arab Emirates?
Everybody has a different answer in their mind. I did a little keyword research to find out what Internet users think. Here are the results generated by a tool called Wordtracker Free Keyword […]