Dave Chappelle who is Muslim as you know (also his brother and most of his family is as well) had a block party in Brooklyn for free a while back. Now rumor has it he wants to do a second one in Dubai.
According to New York Magazine, ?uestlove (of The Roots) recently spoke with the comedian, who has maintained a low profile as of late. “He wants to redo ‘Block Party,’” said ?uestlove, referring to Chappelle’s 2005 documentary which chronicled the process of organizing and throwing the block party. “I saw Dave the night of Erykah [Badu]’s birthday party in Dallas.”
?uestlove elaborated, revealing Chappelle’s desired location for the project. “Over in Dubai,” he explained. “Except he wants to spice it up a bit and have us perform with a 60-piece orchestra. He’s just like, ‘Promise me you’re going to rhyme over ‘Star Wars,’ that’s all I want.’”
Dubai pays more than the U.S. nowadays. Although the rappers and singers at the Brooklyn Block Party weren’t the typical commerical (c)rappers and singers. Groups like The Roots and rappers like Talib Kweli were the main performers. There lyrics are much better that than of Soulja Boy or Lil Wayne (although he’s currently the killer MC in the game).
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The United States military claims they have killed 14 “militants” with the attack, but the people in the area where the air raid hit and reportes saw something totally different. This quote is coming from a person within the Iraqi government which is an “ally” to America:
“They (the Americans) will say it was a weapons cache (they hit),” said the head of Baghdad’s health department, Dr Ali Bistan. “But, in fact they want to destroy the infrastructure of the country.”
When the Iraqi government is saying America is destroying Iraq, then you know America (Bush) is the real terrorist (not Americans, but the government and foreign policies that allow for these terrorist actions). May God grant the highest heaven for the innocent people killed. May God give what is best to the oppressors. Ameen!
Source: Yahoo News
It is clear. Very clear. Open your eyes.
May God bring peace and stability to all the innocent people. May God deliver justice to the oppressors. Ameen!
The story is really sad but the outcome is really good. The father and husband were both jailed, alhamdulillah. Basically to sum up what happened to this young Muslim girl. She was forced into a marriage with a 30-year-old man. She was not treated well, so she ran away and went to the court and spoke to Muhammed Al-Qathi, the court judge and he heard her out, although it was never heard of. May Allah (swt) bless Muhamamd Al-Qathi for following Islam and promoting the good and forbidding the evil. May Allah (swt) protect this young sister and all other young Muslim sisters around the world who are forced into these situations. Ameen!
Warning, this article may or will make you cry. Read at your own will:
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America invaded Iraq 5 years ago, before that Iraq was stable under Saddam. The results of this invasion was and is clear. Chaos. Mass murder. Sunni/Shia wars. Increased terrorism. We need to continue to make dua to Allah (swt) to pray an end for the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Iraq and all over the world. I was watching a special CNN report on the women of Iraq and he situation over there has gotten worse. Families are starving and the fathers can’t provide the means, so the wives have to prostitute themselves which has increased tremendously as Shaytan infiltrates along with the Americans. In America a women who does that is trash, but in Iraq, there are mothers who are forced into these careers in order to simply buy some bread. It brought me to tears when I listened to what they said.
May Allah (swt) protect the innocent and bring justice to the oppressors. Ameen!
…63,000 Americans lost their jobs (largest drop since 2003 - 5 years).
…millions of Americans can’t afford their mortgage payments.
…Bush vetoed 5-billion a year for American children’s health insurance.
So in other words, giving Israel money to terrorize Palestinians is worth more than Americans losing jobs, Americans losing their homes and taking care of American children.
- Author: MR
- Filed under: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Islam, Middle East, New York, News, Polls, uk
- Date: Feb 27,2008
Alhamdulillah! Finally a professional research done throughout the Muslim World regarding 9/11 and terrorism.
About 93 percent of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are moderates and only seven percent are politically radical, according to the poll, based on more than 50,000 interviews.
In majority Muslim countries, overwhelming majorities said religion was a very important part of their lives — 99 percent in Indonesia, 98 percent in Egypt, 95 percent in Pakistan.
But only seven percent of the billion Muslims surveyed — the radicals — condoned the attacks on the United States in 2001, the poll showed.
Sources: AFP
More info on the research here.
At Education City in Doha, Qatar’s capital, they can study medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, international affairs at Georgetown, computer science and business at Carnegie Mellon, fine arts at Virginia Commonwealth, engineering at Texas A&M, and soon, journalism at Northwestern.
Why couldn’t my school have a study abroad program at ‘Education City’. It would have made learning spoken Arabic a lot easier.
Source: The New York Times
