Man...nothing like having your Sudanese mother check you on the #SudanUprising

So I was talking to my mom about what’s happening in Sudan and this image came up. To put it mildly, she was not impressed. Here’s why: The protests have been going on for the past 4 months, and during this time many have been either killed or jailed and tortured. Thing is, these protests have had women at the forefront leading them from the start.

This is a really good episode. One point that was mentioned in passing but is no less important is the idea of a pan-legalist Islam in which we determine how we act solely based on legal permissibility.

https://twitter.com/imanwired/status/1092825447245770752?s=21

Islam is much bigger than a code of do and don’t do. It’s a religion of nurturing excellent character development. It’s not enough to know the specifics of the law. There’s a greater backdrop that must also be kept in mind.

This is a short poem I wrote a while back:

Peace is the whip
Scholars use to
Beat
Justice
Out of
Muslim
Consciousness.

At the most recent Muslim World League's International Conference on Muslim Unity: The... facebook.com/drmohamedghila… Muslims living in the West have a moral duty to be the voice for the voiceless and the oppressed, especially those living in places where even showing empathy with anyone the regime condemns is considered a crime.

While I appreciate and empathize with the perspective of the author, this piece ignores one important fact - that doctors are not mindless automatons with medical training there to act on the whims of patients.

My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy nyti.ms/2DFkkCm “But I also believe that surgery’s only prerequisite should be a simple demonstration of want.”

The paternalistic doctor-patient relationship is mostly a thing of the past as medicine moves forward. But it’s problematic to expect that doctors should simply do as you wish.

When you see a massive explosion of atheism among Muslims, it's because people like Abdul Rahman as-Sudais are imams in the Holy Sanctuary in Mecca.

In this week's Friday sermon as-Sudais peddles conspiracy theories and praises M.B.S., calling him a reformer inspired by God. One thing people like as-Sudais do is equivocate between the status of Mecca and Medina with the political entity called Saudi Arabia. In this misguided sermon, he makes any criticism of the Saudi government equivalent to an attack against the sanctity of Mecca and Medina.

"Alcohol consumption is a causal factor in more than 200 disease and injury conditions. The harmful use of it can also result in harm to other people, such as family members, friends, co-workers and strangers."
- World Health Organization
who.int/news-room/fact… Paper assessing whether restricting opening hours for bars in the Brazilian city of Diadema had an effect on homicide and violence against women between 1995 and 2005.

Restrictions saved NINE women from being murdered every month. That's 1,080 lives!
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Why al-Andalus Fell (Arabic)

Shaykh Sa’eed al-Kamali was asked here about the main cause for the fall for al-Andalus and expulsion of Muslims from it. He notes that it’s quite incredible when you think about despite how Muslims were at the time in terms of intelligence and culture, i.e. civilization, they were overtaken by a people who were largely ignoramuses still living in the Dark Ages.