Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali (Jackass!)

Recently, this guy has stirred up a storm in Australian religious and political circles. His extremist views on women have been publicised in all major world newspapers. These days, any extremist view from a muslim is published everywhere anyway!! The following article in The Australian - News published his views on the recent attacks on women:

"In the religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, Sheik Hilali said: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?"

"The uncovered meat is the problem."

That is a pretty f*cking disgusting sermon if you ask me!! It's a disgusting comparison as well! People like him destroy Islam's name. Extremism has no place in Islam and neither does Islam advocate it. How the hell did f*ckface become the mufti anyways? His supporters, like all fickle minded people of our own nations, voted him in! Australia has been and most probably always will be a racially biased nation. Mind you, I'm not generalizing here. I'm not pointing to all Australians, but majority of them are. A lot of Australians I've met and worked with in this country, sooner or later, I've found out how they really think.

This cleric's views will only further damage the relations between muslims and others. I think he likes the publicity too.

Read his full sermon on Adultery and Theft. What do you think? I mean, can they really give sermons like that in mosques? It's sick.

I Gave Blood Today!

There was a blood donation drive in my company today from Al Wasl Hospital and yours truly, with some persuasion from colleagues, decided to give blood! It's not that I'm afraid of needles or the sight of blood makes me dizzy. I guess I was just being lazy!

Anyways, I went and first our company nurse gives me a form to fill out. It contained questions like "have you ever taken drugs/shared needles/when did you last have sex/do you think you have AIDS/do you know AIDS will be reported to the government/etc... etc..." Once done, the doctor then took some blood to check my haemoglobin level, iron, etc. to see if I qualify for blood donation. With a haemoglobin level of 15.1, who could disagree?! Normal level is between 14-18.

The doctor then proceeded to check my blood pressure. I don't know why the doc had to check my blood pressure twice. The second time, the machine reset itself and then it was finally over the third time! My arm almost went numb with that tape around it! I can never understand how to read blood pressure levels. I was looking at the numbers, confused. I asked the doc what's my blood pressure level and he said "You're ok. Go and lie down!" Yeah.. I come to donate blood and you're doing ME a favour by taking it?!!

No use arguing. So I lie down and the doc comes over, injects my right arm with anaesthesia, gives me a rubber ball to squeeze, and shoves a big, fat needle inside. I'm donating 450ml of blood. I see other people who started with me and they are almost finished after about 5 minutes. I'm still pumping! The machine starts beeping. I can't look down to see what the problem is. The doc comes by and checks. My friend on the other bed looks down and tells me, the machine is blinking "No Flow" on the screen. What the f@#&?! The doc says its ok and leaves. After a while, it starts beeping again! "No Flow" It took me almost 10 minutes to finish the process. A whole 5 min longer than all the others! Finally it's over and I can go and have lunch!

The weirdest part is, or should I call it silly, in all these 45 minutes, I never bothered to find out my blood type! Argh!!!

Eid Mubarak!

Eid Mubarak in advance to all my fellow bloggers!

May your Eid be filled with joy and blessings!

(Enjoy the holidays!)