Muslims need to embrace ethics and integrity

Muslims need to embrace ethics and integrity

Quebec calls the Hijab 'ostentatious', Ontario welcomes it

 "Ostentatious" - pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.

5 things Quebec's values charter would do, and 5 it wouldn't

Would

1. Bar public sector employees — including everyone from civil servants to teachers, provincial court judges, daycare workers, police, health-care personnel, municipal employees and university staff — from wearing a hijab, turban, kippa, large visible crucifix or other "ostentatious" religious symbols while on the job.
2. Allow five-year opt-outs from the ban for certain organizations, but not daycare workers or elementary school teachers.
3. Require that those receiving or providing government services uncover their faces.
4. Exempt elected members of the Quebec legislature from the regulations.
5. Amend Quebec's human rights legislation, the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, to specify limits on when someone can stake a claim for religious accommodation. 

Wouldn't

1. Remove religious symbols and elements considered "emblematic of Quebec's cultural heritage." That includes: the crucifixes in the Quebec legislature and atop Mount Royal in Montreal, the thousands of religiously based geographic names (e.g. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!) and the names of schools and hospitals.
2. Ban public sector employees from wearing small religious symbols like a ring with a Star of David, earrings with the Muslim crescent or a necklace with a small crucifix.
3. Eliminate subsidies to religious private schools. The Quebec government currently funds about 60 per cent of the budgets of most of the province's private schools, including parochial ones.
4. Ban opening prayers at municipal council meetings, which was recommended by the 2008 Bouchard-Taylor Commission report into cultural accommodation. The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled in May that such prayers do not necessarily violate Quebec's current human rights legislation.
5. Eliminate property tax exemptions for churches, mosques, synagogues and other religious buildings.

Ad aims to lure Quebec doctors to Ontario, targeting values

Shoes and handbags are not 'must haves'

Shoes and handbags are not 'must haves'

“Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.” ―

 

 Mokokoma Mokhonoana

( http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7152008.Mokokoma_Mokhonoana)

How to Be Curious…

How to Be Curious…


Cultivate a habit of asking good questions.

Understand that we can experience miracles if we're inquisitive.

Realize that we know very little and there's discovery and adventure around every corner.

Inquire into new ideas, people, situations, places.

Open our minds to others' points of view.

Unleash our inner child, who is naturally inquisitive.

Suspend judging and evaluating—there's always time for that later.

People lining up for hours to see their idols at #TIFF Toronto, oblivious about the situation in #Syria

In 2003, we went on protest after protest with our 12 yr old son trying to prevent the invasion on Iraq. Nothing could have stopped that invasion. So, I think we just have to carry on watching Hollywood and Bollywood. Go wild about the actors at TIFF. Continue smoking pot like the girl next to me walking on King Street!!

 
People lining up at TIFF

 

12 Yr old in Toronto in 2003, protesting against the invasion of Iraq

Moving with Technology

Typewriter (1983), manual not electric

The  Sinclair (1984). Did some basic programming on it. Backup on a cassette tape.

Amstrad PCW8512 / 8256 Personal Computer word processor. Immigrated with this PC from the UK to Canada in 1987

Next Computer ( 40 MB hard drive with 8 inches floppy drives)

Cell phones

1990

1990

Take to Compassion and abstain from oppression and obscenity. Compassion is grace and the lack of it a disgrace

The World Should Join in Call to Stop US War in Syria | Common Dreams

The World Should Join in Call to Stop US War in Syria | Common Dreams

"Together, let us fast, pray and send a clear message to President Obama, the U.S. Senate and Congress—“No war, no military attack, no support for armed opposition, no support al-Qaeda, no bombings.”
Give peace a chance!"

Photos to Remember

Why are kids sent to fight wars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareem_Rashad_Sultan_Khan

Traditional Muslims

Traditional Muslims

From the "Heart of Islam", by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

"To understand the heart of Islam it is, therefore , essential to understand the significance of the Prophet from the point of view of traditional Muslims - not  that of either Muslim modernists who neglect his spiritual dimension or the so-called puritan reformers who for other reasons belittle his significance....."