Calling Moon and Moon

Is anyone still there?
 
Anyway, after an unintended break , I shall be taking another one.Alhamdulilah for planes, as insha Allah, I’ll be in Syria later today.
So no internetry until I get back. *shakes*.
A summary of things I could have written about before, but didn’t:
 
Nick Griffin on Question Time: Tosser. And No Platform for Fascists.
People voting [...]

A Summary of Recent Stoniness

A belated Ramadan and Eid Mubarak to you all.
I have recently moved and had no internet, hence my delay in moderating and blogging.
Two recent posts here have discussed spiritual abuse within Islam, particularly the abuse meted out to women. The most recent post provoked a detailed discussion. Here is a summary of my thoughts as [...]

How Do You Soak Yours: Burka Apparently Soaked in Blood

A lot of the discourse of Muslim women both here and elsewhere concerns the battle to speak for ourselves. To define our religion, our beliefs on our terms, without the headpatting and correcting of outsiders. Fatemeh’s post at Altmuslimah gives a thorough outline of the usual mistakes made by those who seek to defend Muslim [...]

Keep Yourself Alive

A few years ago there was a burst of blog activity chronicling the rise and fall of the Salafi movement in the U.S, this started on Umar Lee’s blog and even led the creation of a blog, Salafi Burnout, which was dedicated to this event.
Many stories were told in the comment sections and elsewhere. That [...]

Being Muslim While White Privileged

For Brooke’s White Privilege and the Ummah carnival.
Oh, where to start, because this is a very thorny issue indeed.
Firstly, an acknowledgment. Appearing visibly Muslim (wearing hijab, Sunnah beard, thobe, e.t.c) will indeed open you up to anti-Muslim prejudice even if you are white.
However,
The majority of white converts are aware that all we need to do [...]

Blog Carnival: Celebrating Muslim Motherhood

The Carnival will be on 25th April 2009, insha Allah.
All submissions welcome, the more the merrier! Doesn’t matter if you’re a mother or not, as long as it relates to the subject title, it’s welcome
This a great chance to counteract the usual headpatting associated with the topic.
You can use a new post, an old post, [...]

Love To Love You Baby

I really do.
I love your face when you smile up at me first thing in the morning.
I love how you  stretch out in the same way as your Dad when you fall asleep.
I love your milky breath.
I love kissing your cheeks and blowing raspberries on your tummy.
I even love the little tomato face you make [...]

The Last Days of the Baby Disco

Content warning: This post is about childbirth and no, that doesn’t involve any storks.
Oreo was due on the 20th of January. That came and went with no sign of anything happening and lots of advice on how to make things happen.
With all the nursery long set up, I was starting to feel like Miss Havisham [...]

Phew!

Alhamdulilah Rabbil Alamin
Forty weeks + five days + the hardest sixteen hours of my life
= a 9lb5oz (4.2kg) baby girl.
Alhamdulilah! Now I understand why the hadith states that carrying your mother on your back while making Hajj does not  equal a single labour pain.
Alhamdulilah, what blessings Allah the Almighty grants us in this life. [...]

Flash I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth

Six days to go until the big day, insha Allah. Although everything is in place so it could happen at anytime. I’m fearful that my waters will break in public and I will die of shame before I have the chance to give birth.
I am officially fed up with being pregnant now. I won’t elaborate, [...]