Simply Aasia

I know its Ramadaan and everyone will talk about the closeness, the pause the resetting of the soul. I fear this Ramadaan its lost on me. While I am thankful to have made it, I have been tested. And for my moms health alone i should be greatful and fall down on my knees. Which I have done over and over. When I thought she wouldn't make it this time. But without sounding to dramatic - I am bereft of meaning so far this Ramadaan. A mutual friend told me to "Keep on keepin' on" Its easy when your life is cool and you can dictate your work and hours. Trying to find a spiritual centre in the middle of a traffic jams and deadlines. I am out of sync with the dance steps.

Zuma's "african way" remarks sparks concern. This story about Prez Zuma " The Centre for Constitutional Rights expressed concern over President  Jacob Zuma 's reported comments that the justice system was "the white man's way" for solving "African problems". I might not be the man's greatest fan at the best of times, but I think Prez Zuma has a point. If we as a people conduct ourselves using tradition and our culture as the reference to how we live, why on earth would any justice system work for us? Many might disagree with it, hoever we only have to look at honour killings and child marriages in Islam (Here I am talking about the UK) Entire communities hush up when police officers enter the area with whispers of abuse happen. But no one will out the abuser at all. I see it in the coloured communities as well, although I still call the police when I witness doemstic abuse, battered wives wont file charges. Under-age drinkin...

So once again Muslims around the world seem to be angry, but for once this has nothing to do with the usual issues, but rather directed at Newsweek for another sub-par article written by Ayaan Ali Hirsi - the ex-Muslim all Muslims love to hate, according to her. Anyhoo, I won't involve myself  in the politics of it. But working in ORM I did track the meme last night. If you don't know what I am talking about, this was the article that got all Muslim turbans in a knot. Not really, but her article mentions Muslims burning with false outrage. [She would know] When Newsweek tried to get online conversation going with the hashtag #MuslimRage. Muslims hijacked it  to have some fun with it.

Almost every muslim that I know has an opinion or a plan on how to be dealing with this, with a good article on MuslimMatters  about it.  My very quick 2 cents, in no particular order and on no particular side. If you watch TV during Ramadaan, then why is a cinema any different You could absolutely wait. You could go watch it at a Casino  ( and be very surprised with the amount of muslims on the slot machines) If you waiting to watch it after Ramadaan, and you're agonising about it at first taraweeh, and cannot contain your excitement about Ramadaan ending. Rather just go watch it when it releases and get it over with. Because you lose not only 2h45mins, you lose all the blessings, because you're never really paying attention in the first place. Peace out