I read his view on the movie that mocked and mocked our beloved prophet (salallahu caliyhe wasim). He has no love for the rasul (salallahu caliyhe wasilm) and therefore is not of his Ummah. So to me, what comes out of this man's mouth is nothing but donkey manure. Saffrez, We can't have a serious debate with you when you read munafiqs like Khalid Abou Fadl. He lacks credibility in my eyes because he gets his glory and praises from insulting Islam and muslims.

He is a free slave so let him roam with his riches as a slave. If he had some sincerity to him, he would have spoken up but his hands are tied with dirty money. Remember the Crystal incident and when he called for a boycott? There were no more rappers endorsing that. He is influence in the black community but he is tied down after all he is a Business, man!

Rahima;983244 wrote: ^ She dumped you for the white dude didn't she? That's what this is all about isn't it? . Rahima, stop with the personal attacks. Have some manners! Uucudobilah!

^ The reality is they all have the same worldview and would not give up their slice of the cake to the other 99% because after all they "earned" the right to screw people over (as russ brand said "i am taking that right and owning it" )

On another note, banks laugh at the gullibility of muslims. So more and more banks are joining in on the parade and telling their contract lawyers to erase the word interest and replace it with some arabic terms so that they can gain more muslim clients for their residential mortgages ...i mean Halal Mortgages . This is a good topic to discuss and it shows the dilemmas of migrating to non-muslims lands.

^ Rahima, tell me their names and addresses of those people that have 500,000 dollars in cash. I might be related to them and if not by blood, then I will accept money relatives...lol

Too bad Syria is destroyed now. It had many Islamic Universities and large libraries and print shops.

Do you know what Fawzan and the folks at Medina University were saying when the Ikhwan were getting slaughtered in August of this year? Do you know how much hot air they spent on talking about Shias in Syria, Bahrain and Dammaj? Madina University and all other government run institutions are spreading and producing deaf and dumb Ulama that worship Aqeedah 24/7.

Safferz;982949 wrote: Brilliant from beginning to end. What makes it brilliant? He is not saying something new that other skinny jean wearing people haven't said. He is just like many others - full of himself.

Safferz;983118 wrote: Yes, it's showing here in Boston as part of the limited release but opening nationwide on November 1st. Huh? It's quite the the opposite, films like this shed light on a dark chapter of US history that most people feel detached from and are painfully ignorant about. It's absurd that you think white people portraying slave owners and racists and torturing slaves in the antebellum South is supposed to give white people today a sense of pride, if anything what these films do is make viewers deeply uncomfortable about race in American history, disrupt the notion of romantic Southern plantations populated by happy slaves (something you DID see in older Hollywood films like Gone With the Wind) and force people to see the barbarity of slavery and the humanity of the enslaved. In the same way the miniseries Roots was a watershed cultural event for bringing the history of slavery to American televisions, this film has the potential to be (and is, from everything I've heard so far) one of the greatest films on American slavery ever made. This year also looks like it may even make history for the number of black actors nominated for Oscars, with films like The Butler, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Philips, etc all getting Oscar buzz. Sure there are (Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments comes to mind)... but none of those examples are nearly as important or central to the US context as the enslavement of black people was, so you have no point. All those movies have black males as slaves, servants or pitch black pirates. Great things to aspire to and recant about over and over again right? Hollywood doesn't give a damn about black history. They retell these stories and almost always and I mean always - there is a white protagonist that some how has the power to free that black person from darkness. I just don't get the stoopidity of these negroes that want to play the slaves or thiefs or servants. Could you imagine Brad Pitt wanting to play the role of a jewwish thief? No such thing right, I mean about a jeeww being a thief - ever!

Safferz;983040 wrote: lol $10k is less than what my parents had to pay to put in new flooring in like two rooms last month. $400k is cheap for a house, average property in Toronto is over $500k I believe. You'd be surprised by what a million dollar home looks like. You sound like a Bougie Broad! Spent 10k on cherry hardwood floors and 40k on new kitchen cabinets with marble counters etc.

^ I don't get your point. If it is a rant, then I get it cause rants have no points!

Safferz;982474 wrote: I'm a biased Canadian on this, but I don't think French being offered in schools is a bad thing. It opens a lot of doors, but since English is the more important language internationally, I hope Somaliland puts more emphasis on English. I was a little surprised by the limited English skills university students back home had, and schools like the University of Hargeisa claim to instruct students in English. It wasn't too long ago that students like my parents were able to become fluent English speakers without ever leaving Hargeisa. Yeah, they learned Af ingriis through the www. lol French and English are terrible languages. They borrow a lot from Latin.

I don't recall BBC having come on here and posting that bs of an article. Rather, it was you that shared and spewed that article. So take responsibility for swallowing their story entirely. Mistreatments are wrong but high lighting them and putting a magnifying glass on them is propaganda. We are tainted with so many negatives and for once, I thought that you be sensitive to that. After all, you are a Ph.D. candidate in History!

DoctorKenney;982418 wrote: That was a long-winded paragraph insulting me and others on this forum, without really saying anything of substance. You don't know me and you know nothing about me at all. But nice job making assumptions about my character. And it's laughable how your "PHD in History" from an American school makes you qualified to make personal Ijtihad on Islamic Fiqh when it's clear that you know nothing about Quranic Tafsir, Hadiths and early Islamic history. Your little Liberal Arts degree is giving you the confidence and nerve to make long-winded posts about topics you're totally ignorant of, and then you try to pass yourself as an intellectual. Learn your place, you're an amateur. I once took a class on the French Revolution when I was in University. Does this somehow make me an expert on French History? Or does it make me a man who knows a little bit about France and that's it. And it's clear from your posts that you look at Islam through your liberal lenses, and you try and interpret Islam according to your Liberal inclinations. And you're telling me that I "lack intellectual curiosity". Either speak good or remain silent. I'm advising you to remain silent , re-enrol in University, and study something else instead. Something worthwhile Thanks to you Safferz, If I ever have children (inshaAllah), I will explicitly forbid my daughters and sons from studying Liberal Arts in University, and instead make them study Engineering, Healthcare or any of the other hard sciences. I'm not gonna have them become as corrupted and deluded as you. What a shame wallahi Our youth are easy prey sheep for the sheep in wolves clothing world of liberal academia. They almost always graduate with another Shahada (pun intended).

What a great piece of "unbiased and factual stats based" research article that Saff posted. I saw shackles, a black slave and a hyena waiting to eat him. After all, Somalis feed there mentally ill kin folks to the hyenas.

There is a distinction between committing a sinful act and the endorsement of that act. So saying that you Tariq admitted to committing zina and liked it is vastly different from Tariq saying that he is of his free choice to do as he pleases and that there is no such thing as Zina. In the latter, Tariq is endorsing in having pre-marital sex and says that it is acceptable. So therefor; you can't endorse anything openly that goes against the ijma/consensus of pre-21st century ulamaa/Scholars. As the ayat says for those that don't govern/judge by what Allah has revealed, then they are wrong doers.

She was baited and hooked. The stereotype must have some truth to it. Gold diggers are alive and are always around the corner. lol

We don't need more foreign trained aka Madina University Ulama. The Somalis for the most part, are still religious oriented and have not been had their minds fully poisoned with modernity.

Oiler;982308 wrote: The 2nd question has been answered: She's entitled to her opinions. There is no absolute right of entitlement to opinions. You can't tweet every ignoramus idea e.g. gay and muslim is ok?

I once watched this show and the white american dude was trying to convert so that he could just please the non religious arab girl's parents. It was just a temp. condition that he wanted to meet quickly and in time for their wet and wild wedding. The deen protects lineage and that is something that is deemed very important. Since it is the man that carries that line, a women can not marry a non muslim. For unlike Judiasm, you inherit the deen of the father and not the mother. A women that marries a non muslim would be a fasiqa - at the very least. On a point of wisdom - when we marry, we marry into that family. One family on to another family. Therefor; having commonalities and similarities in ethno- culture and deen are very important. All too often, the newly interracial couple (with one covert spouse) experience alienation from their inlaws because of the nuances in cultural differences.

Blackflash;981668 wrote: How did this guy, in a country of 170+ million people, get accepted in to Pakistan's top university? Just because he doesn't echo your very western biased sentiments, does not negate his credibility.

Such nonsense makes no sense! Why consider yourself part of this secular humanity? La yastawey asxab ul nur wa asxab al jannah. Asxab ul Janna hum ul faaezuun. Rebuttal provided in Sura Al Hashr. We are not equal in their eyes and in God's eyes.

Oh and by the way, they are talking Oscars for this movie too. Zero Dark was the darling movie of the oscars recently.

So just to give som perspective, this movie has the same rating approval as Zero Dark Thirty. If you ever watched Zero Dark, it normalized the idea of torturing muslims; the idea that every muslim is a potential terrorist and that the American Women is the new savior/protagonist. Her hate for muslims having been justified. This Captain John movie will and does work in the same way. The white American male is empathetic to the pirates cause does not mind to have them portrayed as savages and Americans as heroes.