The news that the Muslim Ladies College in Perth has been closed down by the government and its acting director charged with fraud is not as shocking as it should be to me. Continue reading
Month: December 2007
Interactive restaurant. A testimonial.
If you already know what an interactive restaurant is then you are way ahead of me. What I do know, however, is that when I go to a restaurant, I would like someone else to prepare my food. Call me old-fashioned but going to a restaurant means I don’t wanna cook. Continue reading
Fifteen minutes of fame is too long.
When Andy Warhol said in the Sixties “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” I didn’t get it then and I still don’t get it. It was a throw-away line by an overrated “artist” who enjoyed saying and doing stupid things. There was one thing, however, that he wasn’t stupid at Continue reading
Why climate change is not a crisis.
In our everyday life we have to handle situations that are mundane but frustrating. Yes, we can discuss world peace and famine with friends, but in reality our daily life revolves around the ordinary. Continue reading
Gillian Gibbons, anarchist.
Looks like my vacation in the Sudan is on again. For a few days I was apprehensive about visiting the place but when Gillian Gibbons assured the world that the Sudan was truly a lovely spot after all, then I said, why not? Continue reading
The Name Game
When feminism came on the scene in the Nineteen Sixties (I am intentionally not referring to the suffragette movement of the preceding century) women began to question their role in marriage, society, work situations etc. A society can only benefit from people questioning certain aspects of it. Nothing is written in stone, after all, in the non-Muslim world, that is. Continue reading
Say no to fruit juice!
Whenever I visit a mall in Australia I despair at the long queues in front of the fruit juice vendors. I feel like going up to the teenagers in the queues and shaking them. Continue reading
Tattoos, piercings, brandings etc.
My education is an ongoing thing but this latest bit of information has almost, but not quite, left me speechless. Continue reading
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