Goodwin on the Freedom to Fail

I truly believe that failure is important in order for a person to succeed. If there are no failures in life, there will be no motivation for success. To be honest, I experienced my first dose of failure when failed my premath test in college. It was a reminder that if I was going to be truly successful in college, I was going to actually have to be realistic and put actual effort in my work to get an education. This culture is afraid to fail because it would force people to recognize and appreciate what they have. Our culture is raising a generation of children who think that life is an entitlement and not something you should work for. I do believe that the limited freedom to fail could affect our society and government because it breeds incompetent officials and tyranical rulers.

I am concerned that if the freedom to fail is not allowed, there will be no new inventions of products and new ways of thinking. There will be no one to step up to the challenges of our governments who treat us wrong, no new artists who create art work, and no protests on the streets. So how do we stop this ever growing trend towards laziness and elitism? It's as simple as getting your children actively involved in their school projects and not having the parents do the assignments. It  is having a game in athletics where there is a clear winner and the loser shakes hands and learns to loose with humility, for both the winner and loser learn good sportsmanship. In the midist of trial and error when creating projects, it helps to know what your consumers really need. The freedom to fail also provides motivation for creativity and increases competncy for success. When we make these small changes, we can then have the absolute freedom to fail.

Eid Mubarak 2 all and Ramadan Reflections

As salaamu alikum 2 all my fellow bloggers. It's been about a month since I posted any thing up and in a way that's a good thing . I needed 2 take a break from posting anything during Ramadan. So now that I'm back, I would like 2  put up some reflections that I have learned during Ramadan.

1. Fasting- this ramadan, I have improved on my fasting and learned to give myself some slack. Instead of doing cold turkey fasting, which I lasted only two weeks, I fasted every three days and fed the hungry when I could.
2. Reading Quran- I  finally got a list of what the 30 parts (aka Juz) of the quran are and started reading them in order. I completed 29 of the 30 Juz of Quran. 
3. First times - for the first time, I stayed for the night of power (I lasted til 1 am ) and I spent the last ten day in a masjid, reading quran and learning more islamic lessons along the way.

I survived Ramadan and did slightly better than I did last year, mashaallah. Until next Ramadan...

Jazakallah Karem,
Muslimah

MOOZ-lum Official Trailer

This is a preview of the movie "Mooz-lum". The Director/ Writer Q is a muslim and is trying to get the movie in to U.S. theaters by the end of 2010 insha'allah. The cast includes both muslims and non muslims. Please make dua for the brother and may his film end up on the big screen.

Muslim Comedian - Ali Ardekani - Baba Ali

Baba Ali is hilarious!!!

"Refudiating" Palin's Racist Tweet

Thank You for your article. Please write more about the Muslims who died in WTC. Believe or not this story is often largely ignored. As for Sarah Palin, I truly think if she gets another office seat, it will be disasterous for Americans as a whole. The whole purpose of a supremacy movement is to gain govermental control so they can enforce their ignorance and stupidity upon others with no one to stop them. Remember Adolf Hilter and the Nazi Party, who ran Germany until 1945 while sending 6 million people to their graves. Remember the Ku Klux Klan, who terroized the south and lynched blacks and jews. What did these two along with Ms. Palin have in common? They used religion,specifically Christanity along with fear to give white americans a reason to commit crimes and to be racist.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Fast food pushing up US obesity

Bismillah ir Rahman ir Raheem

It seems that America's addition to fast food is quickly expanding our waistlines and sending us to an early grave. In the piece, it shows places like McDonald's offering salads, just because they offer salads does not necessarily guarantee that the salad is healthy either. Some of McDonald's dressings and salads have as much calories as their Big Macs and Cheeseburgers. Let's be honest, it's time to go back making our meals at home and knowing where our food is coming from. I'm liking and appreciating the local food movement as well as getting my meats from Halal butchers. Our country wants their lives and food done quick, fast and in a hurry.

Inshaallah, I prefer to eat my meals at home where they are made with love, honor, and conviction.

May Allah reward you with good,

Muslimah

10 Tips to Fight Depression ! | Trying to Spread the Message

Bismillah ir Rahman ir Raheem

While surfing the net, I found some insightful information about how 2 deal with depression the Islamic Way .

May Allah reward you with good,
Muslimah


10 Tips to Fight Depression ! Trying to Spread the Message

Inspired by Muhammad

Inspired by Muhammad is a new website and ad campaign that was unleashed in Britain today by the Exploring Islam Foundation. I checked out the website and found it to be highly informative. The launch of this website was based on recent survey that the EIF did with the YouGov company with non-Muslims in Britain. Here's what the survey found:

• 60% believe that Islam oppresses women
• 58% associate Islam with terrorism
• More than half of those surveyed thought Islam to be an extremist religion
• 57% percent of Britians get their information about Islam from television and news reports

Inshaallah, this campaign will help show that Islam is a peaceful religion that Muhammad (SWT) was a peaceful prophet.

Music- Helpful or harmful to our deen

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Both Silent and Angry Protests Take Place Against Facebook

Yesterday, I took one day off from Facebook as most Muslims did, because facebook allow a contest called draw Mohammed day. But some countries took it a step further. Pakistan interrupted both Facebook and Youtube service. Thousands of muslimahs and muslims took to the streets demanding that both websites be banned in their country for allowing the site to continue with this group. As of this posting, Facebook has since shut the group down and has kicked off the member who created it.

I checked FB today and found that very few Muslims have logged backed on to the website. Inshaallah, Facebook and Youtube will learn to think before they allow such groups to enter.

May Allah Bring Peace and blessings,

Muslimah

Feminist Daily News 5/11/2010: French Parliament Adopted Formal Resolution Condemning the Burqa

France is moving forward with the ban. They have started to construct the bill. SubanAllah, they know not what they do...


Feminist Daily News 5/11/2010: French Parliament Adopted Formal Resolution Condemning the Burqa

Inside Story - Banning the veil

Well, Europe has decided to go to war against the niqabis. First France, now Belgium Parliament has unanimously voted to ban the burqa in public. At least in America, I can wear my burqa because I'm protected by freedom of religion.

Video: CAIR-MI Releases 911 Tape of Imam's Shooting

This Vid is The release of the 911 tapes of the shooting death of a Detroit Imam.

France - Muslim Girl Takes Niqab Off

A french niqabi finds a nice way to deal with the system. luv this vid. may allah bless her.

CAIR-OK: Teen Accuses Clothing Store of Discrimination

something 2 think about

In the name of Allah, Most gracious, Most Merciful

Masha'Allah, I've been blessed with another day, another hour, another minute, another second to make some decisions in my life. I know I've been on this earth for 25 years and the things I thought I knew about life are the very things that are proving me wrong. Before I became a Muslim, I was a Christian woman thinking that as long as i repented and accepted Jesus as my savior before

Soon on May 15 it will be one year since I converted to Islam and I've really been thinking about what I have learned as well as what I still have to learn. What is really important and who matters in my life still linger in the memories of my head. I know when I die I will have to answer for all the rights and wrongs I've done. Two angels will ask me three questions:

1. What do you believe?
2. What is your religion?
3. Who is your prophet?

Every Muslim will face these three questions. If they answer correctly they are one step closer to paradise. If they answer incorrectly, they face the hellfire. After the questioning is done, there lies the book of deeds. The Book of Deeds are the lists of the bad and good deeds a Muslim has done in the past life on earth. Whatever hand it lands on can make a persons hair turn grey. Now that's something that weighs on my mind more than anything else.

Tomorrow is not promised

Bismillah ir Raham ir Rahreem (In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful)

In the month of January, I experienced two things that gave me a reminder that as a human being no one is guaranteed the next day, hour or even minute.

On January 8th, me and my husband got into a car accident. Another car hit the passengers side of the car, hitting my side. Firefighters had to use the "jaws of life" to get me out of the car. We both left with our lives. Two weeks later, we were on the train when it derailed off the track, leaning towards the expressway below. The train conductor was able to drive on one track to the next train station.

The lessons I learned from those two experiences is that it's by the grace and mercy of Allah that he spared everyone's lives that day. Mashallah.

May Allah Bring peace and blessings,

Muslimah

2010: A New Decade

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious and Most Merciful

May Allah bring peace and blessings upon everyone. Believe it or not, we made it through the first ten years of the millennium. We've gone from the Y2K scare to just about everybody and they mama having a blog, Facebook or tweeting every little fact and detail about their lives. But in the first ten years of the millennium, I have started to see scary trends as the digital age started to bloom.

• The Death of Privacy. Celebrities and flashing cameras everywhere following them to the latest eateries and stores. Tabloids use them as fodder to get people to buy them. Reality television has gone from something of substance, like True Life and The Real World, to something of utter train wreck and stupidity, like MTV's Jersey Shore and Bravo's Real Housewives series. In a way, it has cause generation y to be more obsessed with what's going on with only them than about what's going on with others and the world around them.
  
• The Birth of Ignorance and Fear. Eight years of the Bush Administration proved that when powers go unchecked, it can bring about disastrous consequences. When the attacks of September 11^th, 2001 happened it gave the administration the power to search people's homes without a search warrant, wiretap phone conversations without a search warrant and to arrest innocent people for no reason. Two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan only brought bloodshed and they could not find the supposed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Anyone who spoke out against the war was at best called unpatriotic and at worst was put on a no-fly list. Worst of all, Muslims and minorities suffered the worse under the Bush Administration. For African Americans, it was the improper handling of Hurricane Katrina. For the Hispanic community, it was the crackdown on illegal immigration and the battles of the drug cartels for money and power. For Muslims, it was the constant racial profiling and discrimination, the name calling as well as false imprisonment, the raiding of our masjids by the FBI and the blacklisting of Islamic organizations from receiving donations for their supposed "ties to terrorism."
  
• The Blurring Line. America has turned into a country where its citizens have failed to distinguish the difference between what is free and what is demoralizing and oppressive. The Internet has become a battling ground over what is public and what is private.
  

Only Allah knows what the next ten years will bring. May Allah Bring peace and blessings to you and yours, Muslimah.

NIQAB???: MUSLIMAH PERSPECTIVE

From Muslimah2Muslimah's YouTube page, A Muslimah decides to take the plunge and put on the niqab. Later on today, I will post up something about surving the first ten years of the millenium.