The Ethics of Death
This post is not about whether it's moral or immoral to die. I think we know the answer to that question! It's about how Muslim preachers remind people of their impending death in order to jolt them...
View ArticleFrames of Reference
Discussions often operate on the level of arguments, or statements. One party makes an assertion, and the other party dismisses it as "not making sense," "being flawed," or a number of other reasons...
View ArticleThe Promise of Change
Whenever I see the word "change" being used in a political campaign, I remember an incident my brother-in-law told me about: He was once in a social gathering (i.e. a deewaniya) here in Kuwait, when a...
View ArticleDefining the Meaningless
In my last post, I gave an example of the use of meaningless words in political discourse. But this post is slightly more controversial. It touches on issues that many find too sensitive to talk about,...
View ArticlePoem to Celebrate Eid Al-Ghadeer
This is a poem I wrote a couple of years ago to celebrate Eid Al-Ghadeer, which marks the occasion when Prophet Mohammed (peace be on him and his family) gathered all the Muslims who performed the...
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