http://jannah.org/blog A Single Muslimah's Musings Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:06:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few months ago a brother in one of my forums asked "What is masculinity?"  Now this is a really profound question. No one could really answer the question. I thought about it and had no idea either. I said I needed time to think about it. Fast forward to ... http://jannah.org/blog/2010/03/19/what-is-masculinity/ Many Muslims in the world consistently blame the "West" for all their problems. No doubt, many of the problems in the Muslim world stem from decisions made in the West. i.e... the arbitrary creation of Israel, the blind unconditional support of Israel in its occupation and oppression of the Palestinian ... http://jannah.org/blog/2010/03/12/top-10-probs-of-the-muslim-world/ Bismillah Sr. Aminah Assilmi died today in a sudden car accident. Inna lillah wa inna ilaihi rajeoon. She was 65 and had been ill a few years ago but had been doing much better recently. She died instantly I read. SubhanAllah, indeed it is true we do not know when or ... http://jannah.org/blog/2010/03/05/in-remembrance-of-sr-aminah-assilmi/ A good friend of mine once got rejected by a guy because she was one year older than he was. Turns out she wasn't but that was the original reason. Not sure why it didn't work out after he found out??.. but anyways this brings me to the point of ... http://jannah.org/blog/2010/03/05/age-the-x-factor/ The houses on the block in which I live are quite close together. On our one block we have defeated the odds of random chance by having 3 houses in a row with professors. Next door lives a young professor of archaeology/sociology with his family and next door to him ... http://jannah.org/blog/2010/02/26/home/