Susan: Hey pot. This is kettle. You're black. Pot and Kettle. What a pair we are!Nahida: I want to be a pan.Susan: . . . As long as you're a black pan.Nahida: No, no, a teapot. Why black?Susan: Because the whole point, is that the pot is calling the kettle black. But teapots usually aren't …
Month: June 2011
I am issuing a fatwa on bananas.*
I despise bananas. I hate the texture, I hate the slimy stickiness, I hate those strings that hang off of them, I hate how they make everything around them reek of their insufferable stench, and I hate that different areas of them can rot at different times and you have to knife it out.**Fruits that …
thoughts on Islam as an organized religion and the relevance to sectarianism
I have well documented issues with sectarianism. But I've often wondered if it is logically possible to not be part of a sect in actual practice within an organized religion? Human beings are often inclined to define things as the opposite of other things, so what is it that prevents someone from saying "she's part …
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About the Section Dedicated to "Women in Islamic History"
Much of the practice of Islam is based largely on tradition, most of which as been erased or completely made up, and so--in addition to the fact that I love good stories--the purpose of Women in Islamic History is to demonstrate that tradition was dangerously modified to appeal to the needs of deplorable men. And …
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the fatal feminist 