Bad news:
• It’s not difficult to hear an uncommon racial label used among some Muslims, ignorant or negligent of the Quran and Sunnah’s disapproval of backbiting, slander and hate.

• Alhamdulillah, all Masjids are open to all people and no Masjid has racial policies. However, racially divided neighborhoods result in an ethnically dominant Masjid type. Usually, negative attitudes of some and language specific Masjid programs cause miscommunication. This is because some people want to make sure their mother tongue survives in America.

Good news:
• Five times a day, every day, Muslims of every cultural and ethnic background stand shoulder to shoulder to perform their prayers. There is no issue of who stands where based on their color or ethnicity. On a larger level, to remember that millions of Muslims, everywhere of all shapes, colors, sizes, countries, etc. all face the same place to pray, five times a day, is incredible. However, this lesson is usually overlooked even by the Muslim community itself.

• Muslims united in pain. There is a keen understanding amongst many Muslims that when it comes to oppression, it doesn’t matter if you’re a black Muslim, a white Muslim, a Kosovar Muslim, a Chechen Muslim, a Kashmiri Muslim or a Somali Muslim, you are suffering. Imams often make Dua for oppressed Muslims they have never met, no matter what their skin color. Muslims pray along in sympathy and support.

Curing the disease of racism takes time. It also takes humility, sincerity and requires seeking out the right guidance. We just have to sincerely admit the only label we have which is Islam and make a concrete effort to change. Has not Muhammad (pbuh) told us:

“O people, Remember that your Lord is One. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a black has no superiority over white, nor a white has any superiority over black, except by piety and good action (Taqwa). Indeed the best among you is the one with the best character (Taqwa). Listen to me. Did I convey this to you properly?”
People responded, “Yes. O messenger of God.” The Prophet then said, “Then each one of you who is there must convey this to everyone not present.”
(Excerpt from the Prophet’s Last Sermon as in Baihiqi)

Let’s make the difference.

Sometimes they exist in a state of confusion, perhaps like being stuck in a dream.

Sometimes ghosts are trapped and need to be released. Let them know they can move on.

Animals can see or sense spirits, that’s why you often see them just staring intensely at what appears to be nothing.

Ghosts are often associated with hauntings, which is regular occurrence of paranormal phenomena associated with a particular locality, especially a building, and usually attributed to the activities of a discarnate entity. The the phenomena may include apparitions, poltergeist disturbances, cold drafts, and sounds of footsteps and voices.

Most ghosts can’t or won’t hurt you they just want to be noticed.

Reference:

http://www.strange-facts.info/interesting-facts-about-ghosts

Yes, Malaysian food.

The event is expecting around 70 to 80 participants. And this will be a good time to socialize and widen our networks.

Join the event at Columbia University in New York City.

There will be a small registration fee of US$15.

Find out more or register here.

Hey let’s vote for the earth

Earth Hour 2010

27th March 2010

8.30 pm – 9.30 pm (local time)

According to Earth Hour offical website, in 2007, about 2.2 millions people in Sydney Australia showed their stand against the world’s climate change by turning off the light. Their action had somehow opened the eyes of the world and in the next year, more than 50 millions people from all over 35 countries took part in Earth Hour. Last year, 2009, hundreds millions of people all over the world had showed their support to save the world by participating in Earth Hour.

This year, the WWF will again organize the same event, Earth Hour 2010, to continue supporting the earth How about us? Do we just want to just sit and watch it? naaahhh Let’s show our support to the earth. There is nothing you have to do. It is just about turning off your light from 8.30p.m to 9.30 pm at local time on 27th MArch 2010 and you have save the world! As easy as ABC! Manyak senang woo..

P/s: Earth Hour might seems like have no obvious effect on world’s climate change literally but notice this: butterfly effect theory states that a little change in initial condition might produce large variations in a long term behaviour. So, set your alarm and together we support the Earth Hour 2010.

Source: https://www.myearthhour.org/home (Sign up to be a supporter here!)

-saya dah, anda camne?-

The difference would be only about one-millionth of a second.

Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday’s quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.

The length of a day is the time it takes for the planet to complete one rotation — 86,400 seconds or 24 hours.

An earthquake can make Earth rotate faster by nudging some of its mass closer to the planet’s axis, just as ice skaters can speed up their spins by pulling in their arms. Conversely, a quake can slow the rotation and lengthen the day if it redistributes mass away from that axis, Gross said Tuesday.

Gross said the calculated changes in length of the day are permanent. So a bunch of big quakes could add up to make the day shorter, “but these changes are very, very small.”

So small, in fact, that scientists can’t record them directly. Gross said actual observations of the length of the day are accurate to five-millionths of a second. His estimate of the effect of the Chile quake is only a quarter of that span.

“I’ll certainly look at the observations when they come in,” Gross said, but “I doubt I’ll see anything.”

Reference:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_sc/us_sci_quake_shorter_days_3

Did you know that the average chocolate bar in the U.S. contains at least 8 pieces of an insect in it? Harvesting of the cacao beans occurs in the tropical countries of South America with low sanitation levels. Cacao tree beans are cut and piled in the farmer’s field where they ferment for 6 days. During this process, children and adults walk over the piles; insects, rodents, small animals and other living things that make their nests in the piles. Actually the The U. S. Department of Health publishes a book entitled “The Food Defect Action Levels” in which they list unavoidable defects in food (insect, rodents etc.) all allowed by FDA.

http://www.interestingfacts.org/fact/insects-in-your-chocolate

Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University proposed that there are several types of intelligence: naturalist, logical, mathematical, musical, interpersonal, spatial or linguistic (many theories include eight or even nine types). The type of intelligence differs in everyone and is largely a natural phenomenon. Naturalists can easily find the difference between natural things like clouds, animals, plants, etc. Whereas mathematically intelligent people are quick at calculations, propositions and hypotheses. Musically intelligent persons are able to discern rhythm, tone or pitch and can identify sounds which a normal human being might easily miss. Those with spatial intelligence have a unique quality of thinking in pictures. On the other hand linguistically intelligent ones use words for imaginative activities.

Reference:

http://www.interestingfacts.org/fact/stunning-intelligence-facts