Comments on: Miss USA, Muslim role models and the state of our blogging community

By: busana muslim

busana muslim — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:02:52 +0000

What I haven’t seen before is a Muslim woman winning a beauty contest. From my point of view, this is just going to be more interesting. My personal feelings about beauty contests are not positive, but I wrote my articles to bring positivity to the discussions around her win. Muslim communities do a fair amount of complaining (most of which, in fairness, I believe is warranted. Not to mention that the basic premise of MMW is to be critical), so this time I wanted to take a positive angle.

By: M Risbrook

M Risbrook — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:12:46 +0000

I’m wondering which video file format will be the most popular within the Islamic world and whether it will be the same as or different from the most popular choice used by Muslims from outside the Islamic world. The software patents for H.264 do not apply in the Islamic world, with the possible exception of Iraq - unless somebody knows otherwise. Neither do they apply in Europe.

By: Indigo Jo

Indigo Jo — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:59:22 +0000

M Risbrook: in Islam there is something called a “mubah” or something which is permitted but which has no virtue, something morally neutral. The notion of which video codec is better, in and of itself, is one of these matters. The same is true of school uniform, as you asked earlier, in and of itself (as opposed to the ethics of the companies you might have to pay to license the codec and issues such as poor children being shut out of education through over-expensive uniforms).

By: M Risbrook

M Risbrook — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:49:15 +0000

There’s always the question whether blogs appeal to Muslims as a means of communication, or whether they prefer other methods - such as videos.

Has the Muslim community got any opinion on the H.264 vs WebM format war for HTML5? Which file format do Muslims prefer for their video material?

By: Suleiman b. Salim

Suleiman b. Salim — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:00:29 +0000

BismiLlah… as-salamu `alaykum wa rahmatuLlah…

Sidi Yusuf, don’t worry. Your sticking to the shariah despite hawa is what I like about this blog e.g. the fact that polygamy is permissible and the fact that you point out this "miss USA" should not be doing what she is doing as well as condemning those who support muslims in football and boxing. Our only concern is saadah al-abadiyyah - eternal happiness and this is only attained with hidayah to islam and tawfiq to follow the shariah, from Allah taala fi `ula.

keep me in your duas, was-salam Suleiman b. Salim´s last [type] ..Mawlid in Tarim – 03 June 2010 – Dar al-Mustafa [mp3]

By: Indigo Jo

Indigo Jo — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:06:29 +0000

I can approve or delete whoever’s comments I want to. It’s my blog.

By: M Risbrook

M Risbrook — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:34:52 +0000

Will you please stop deleting my comments.

By: UmmZaynab

UmmZaynab — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:48:29 +0000

Well, this personal stuff between bloggers is nothing new. The problem seems to be that many people (women in particular IME) can’t accept that they can have disagreements with people over issues and not take it as personal hurt.

I haven’t followed this conflict closely and I’m not saying I have an opinion on who is right or wrong in this particular case, but in my initial reading of your post on polygamy I didn’t see anything wrong with it. Nor did I see anything wrong with Ginny’s post. Where you guys got personal over this, I don’t have time to figure out. I have a dear friend in a very successful polygamous relationship so I see things from that perspective but I also see it from the perspective that I know 99.999% of people would not be as successful as my friend’s family. We certainly should not blame the institution for the abuses of the few, as that sam logic can (and frequently is) expanded to all of religion. You know the line: “I don’t believe in organized religion because too many people commit horrible acts in the name of religion.”

In my own experience, even when I was bending over backwards to word things carefully, I was still accused of being “hurtful” for merely stating a different opinion. I was sorry when this issue broke up my own blogger-friendship years ago and I’m sorry to see it breaking up still more.

P.S. I wish more people shared your view of boxing. Thank you!

By: Greengrass3

Greengrass3 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:28:20 +0000

Salaam Matthew/Yusuf

The ‘defence of polygamy’ post addressed a hugely sensitive and serious topic that can destroy lives. I’m not sure the stakes get much higher than that. You chose to write provocatively and responses were duly provoked, you chose to be challenging and responses were duly challenged. Passion can be provocative. I recognise it in my own writing too.

A logical sequence of events.

You are also choosing to receive differing views as an attack. There is no need to view responses in such bleak terms.

Elsewhere your writing is informative, incisive and reflective.

If people do not conform to your views it is simply a sincere, albeit passionate, difference of opinion. This post is disappointingly disingenuous. Come on. Cheer up. It’s all good.

Jzk

By: Hena

Hena — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:27:20 +0000

Salaams I feel like the kindergartener at the senior prom and I think I just spilled the punch. I did not know of any groupings or history or who is a part of which site. Please excuse any harm I have caused and chalk it up to my being a rookie. Brother Amad thank you. Sister Fatemeh , I should have disagreed with you in a wiser way-did not mean it personally at all. Sorry if it caused you trouble in your work in the bigger picture. All good was from Allah all bad was from my own nafs. Brother Indigo-Asalamalikum