salonika!

aminamania: aspettandoellis: imanel: Toda la vida con las...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:51:29 -0500

aminamania:

aspettandoellis: imanel: Toda la vida con las chispas de Coca Cola

where do you get the one on the far left?

bowfolk: fuckyeahfarisbadwan: younger Faris

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:49:54 -0500

bowfolk:

fuckyeahfarisbadwan:

younger Faris

axinomancy: This Land Is Your Land - Yeomen I recorded a cover...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:38 -0500

axinomancy:

This Land Is Your Land - Yeomen

I recorded a cover of This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie during the 2008 election season (including the original — rather socialistic — lyrics). What do you think, Tumblritos?

stick: to bring to a standstill; render unable to proceed or go back (usually used in the passive):...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:23:27 -0500

stick: to bring to a standstill; render unable to proceed or go back (usually used in the passive): ~~The car was~~ MY LIFE IS stuck in the mud.

mykol78: theshortstraw: ‘cause it’s Michael Keaton, get it?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:14:54 -0500

mykol78:

theshortstraw:

‘cause it’s Michael Keaton, get it?

theministryoftruth: Ghost Rider: Mike Giant has amazing...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:28:47 -0500

theministryoftruth:

Ghost Rider:

Mike Giant has amazing Sharpie skills (can you believe this guy did this by hand?).

Birth. Upstate New York. Drawing. New Mexico. BMX bikes. Heavy Metal. Skateboarding. Punk rock. Hip-hop. Thailand. College. Dishwasher. Raves. Lorelei. First tattoo. San Francisco. Dharma. Think Skateboards. Angi. London. Adult bookstore. Computer animation. Tattooing. New York City. Newskool. Skullz Press. Everlasting. Track bikes. Brooke and Leia. Tokyo. Tattoo 13. Plum Village. Albuquerque. Stay Gold. REBEL8. Manifestations. Ordained minister. Megan. 36. Amsterdam. Right here. Right now.

jhnbrssndn: feastingonroadkill: Actually, this ties for best...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:27:21 -0500

jhnbrssndn:

feastingonroadkill:

Actually, this ties for best thing you’ll hear all night.

Suicide:’Ghost Rider’

Great as it ever was.

sashya-k: anosognosia: devincastro: Forget multiple tabs on...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:24:56 -0500

sashya-k:

anosognosia:

devincastro:

Forget multiple tabs on your browser. Just visit GoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle, and you can Google search four different things at once! Go ahead, give it a try: click here.

heh, awesome

LOVE it.

umalik: almas88: ssbxoxo: Muslims Debate Female Circumcision...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:37:23 -0500

umalik:

almas88:

ssbxoxo:

Muslims Debate Female Circumcision « Camels With Hammers

The reactions of the women in the background are fascinating.

I find what the man is saying more fascinating. It’s interesting that this lecture aired in 2006, seeing that it was a year later that Al-Azhar University declared female genital mutilation prohibited. If this man is a scholar from one of the most respected Islamic institutions in the world, then why is he talking about female honor in this lecture? Isn’t it time to step away from blaming sexual misconduct on women and extract a universal religion away from the blemished Cultural Islam? So this man shows statistics of women being more chaste after circumcision, yet Egypt is known to make great profit from Gulf Arabs with sex tourism.

This might make sense seeing that, according to their laws, a man who is caught with a prostitute will not be incarcerated, but his testimony will be use to justify conviction of the prostitute. My Imam usually gives passionate speeches against Middle Eastern cultural practices that define family honor as something analogous to female chastity, but this concept of honor is ubiquitous in Muslim communities around the world. Unfortunately, this patriarchal culture seems to be justified with hadith and Qur’anic ayats.

How does one steer away from this version of Islam? How can we make Islam a Universal religion that advocates human rights?

As a side note, here’s a site that justifies female circumcision to enhance sexual pleasure for the woman.

Interesting debate.

What I take from it is that it shows exactly why within only 50 years after death of Prophet s.a.w.w. we changed Islam to make it more men-driven and started subjugating the women.

This man is actually talking about “women” as if he knows women more than they know themselves! The reaction of the lady opposing his views and above all the women in the audience shows his sheer lack of knowledge.

I remember reading quite many Ahadiths from Sihah-e-Sita on this topic. I do not remember any one of them which shows that this was ever done in Arab by Arabs! I can actually recall one exactly where the practitioner was an African woman (most probably Ethiopian) who had come over for trade and when Prophet s.a.w.w. was briefed on what she does, he expressed surprise on it and later asked her to be gentle and not cut too much (literal meanings). Further showing that the practice was never even “Arab” in nature!

Prophet s.a.w.w’s approval or disagreement should be also looked in the way that, when he was once offered a roasted desert salamander, he didn’t like to eat it but he also didn’t term it haram (forbidden). But seeing that no other Ashab (r.a.) present ate that meat.

Finally the lady raises a very important point. Why wasn’t any of the Prophet s.a.w.w’s daughters circumcised? To which I didn’t see the “Sheikh” responding!

I am also amazed that Sheikh instead of asking the lady, who called him, to wear less tight jeans asked her to go ahead with circumcision!

In a way I am glad that it is still in Africa where it is a cultural practice rather than a religious practice. Though sadly it is done within Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community which have a small footprint in Pakistan but live largely in India.

Terrorism that’s personal (12 images) :-O

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:11:00 -0500

bowfolk:tiredofbeingignored:

bearmythology:

chubbyjay:

We typically think of terrorism as a political act.

But sometimes it’s very personal. It wasn’t a government or a guerrilla insurgency that threw acid on this woman’s face in Pakistan. It was a young man whom she had rejected for marriage. As the United States ponders what to do in Afghanistan — and for that matter, in Pakistan — it is wise to understand both the political and the personal, that the very ignorance and illiteracy and misogyny that create the climate for these acid attacks can and does bleed over into the political realm. Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times op-ed columnist who traveled to Pakistan last year to write about acid attacks, put it this way in an essay at the time: “I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through Cambodia (men are almost never attacked with acid). Because women usually don’t matter in this part of the world, their attackers are rarely prosecuted and acid sales are usually not controlled. It’s a kind of terrorism that becomes accepted as part of the background noise in the region. …

I won’t be posting any of the images right now – it’s bound to ruin your Sunday morning quite a bit.. they do drive home the point, and your heart will break if you click the link. Be warned…

http://blogs.tampabay.com/photo/2009/11/terrorism-thats-personal.html

I wasn’t aware of such an epidemic and seeing every photo gave me a perspective on how human beings can just be pure, unadulterated evil. My heart breaks for every single one of these women.

this isn’t uncommon in pakistan. i’ve heard about women doing this, and other awful things, to their daughters-in-law. i think it has something to do with an idea that marriage entitles the husband’s family to anything they demand of the wife, maybe because they are literally, in most cases, taking her into the family’s home. as far as i know, this idea doesn’t have much to do with illiteracy.

pureblog: stones: seaofsin: cargohoo: sleepswithlions: broo...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:39:41 -0500

pureblog:

stones:

seaofsin:

cargohoo:

sleepswithlions:

brooklynmutt:

via

cnn: TUCHMAN: Five police officers were involved in the arrest. One of them was Albert Fisher, who...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:24:33 -0500

cnn:

TUCHMAN: Five police officers were involved in the arrest. One of them was Albert Fisher, who testified “She told me I was a stupid mother blanker.” He added, “She let me know I didn’t know who I was blanking with.”
And then he says when he asked her name, she said “My name is Donald blanking Duck.” When she said “If you try to arrest me, I’ll kick your blanking blank,” according to the cop, he arrested her, and he testified the fight was on.

i heard this on the television in the cafeteria at work on friday.

axinomancy: datn: 86400: passthemike: “Mahna Mahna” by...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:01:41 -0500

axinomancy:

datn:

86400:

passthemike:

“Mahna Mahna” by Cake

Listen to this, or regret it for the rest of your life.

YES. Press PLAY. I don’t care if you’re at work. Shut up and listen to me.

somethingturkish: via sillylittlemiracles: pride week istanbul,...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:07:58 -0500

somethingturkish:

via sillylittlemiracles: pride week istanbul, 2009

guardian: But the anger on show was not just about football and...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:38:08 -0500

guardian:

But the anger on show was not just about football and racism. It also stems from the fact that many Algerians, living in France or Algeria, have never really freed themselves from their longstanding love-hate relationship with France. More precisely, during the years of the French occupation, which began in 1830, Algeria was no ordinary colony, but an integral part of France with the same status as Alsace or Brittany. To be an Algerian was therefore – at least in theory – to be in effect a Frenchman. All too often in practice, as generations of Algerians have discovered, it is to be treated as a second-class citizen. Worse still, to be an Algerian is to be a bicot or mélon – racist terms for Muslims (and all of which I overheard in the mouths of white Parisians on the Métro on Wednesday night).

marsiouxpial: Married To The Sea - ARCHIVE: Feb 2007 this is...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:49:43 -0500

marsiouxpial:

Married To The Sea - ARCHIVE: Feb 2007

this is what touba is like in real life.

newleft: I only got to go to a very small portion of this, but...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:24:37 -0500

Exterior- bottom rotated for readability

Interior

newleft:

I only got to go to a very small portion of this, but it was great.

"Unfortunately, when you mention Marx, people react in one of two ways. They either go ‘Marx?! Here?’..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:24:06 -0500

“Unfortunately, when you mention Marx, people react in one of two ways. They either go ‘Marx?! Here?’ as if the specter has entered the room, or they treat you as if you’re an idiot who just goes around quoting Marx all day.”

- David Harvey (via newleft)

oh dear.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:34:16 -0500

oh dear.

i just talked to an aunt for the first time in about sixteen months. one of the first things she...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:10:05 -0500

i just talked to an aunt for the first time in about sixteen months. one of the first things she asked was, ‘are you making good money?’ i said, honestly, ‘no, not really.’ she replied, ‘oh, i was hoping you’d say you were making good money; then we’d find a girl for you.’ mlid. (kind of. sometimes, i even find myself wishing it was more so.)