Critical Thoughts Retro

Is it just me or is Bleach episode 87 (which is supposed to be available this week) really not available this week?

In a few hours (let me enjoy me dinner first…me hungry!), I will be recording my podcast on the issue of apostasy, inspired by part after reading this. Some points were raised in the article which I feel needed to be articulated more clearly, and I need to refute the points raised by the Article 11 coalition member Haris Mohamed Ibrahim, some of which are flawed and not based on basic Islamic aqeedah and fiqh. Once I’ve recorded it, I’ll try to post it by midnight today if I can get my ad hoc audio engineer to mix the background music with the audio by then. Otherwise you will have to wait until tomorrow.

In the meantime, my previous podcasts can be listened to/downloaded here.

[BNN (Bawang News Network) satirical scoop: We were recently invited to a Press Conference held at Orang Asli’s Village Hotel (tailored after Shah’s Village Hotel in PJ) in the jungles of Kelantan, organised by The Association of Mutant Elves For Pea-Sized Brains With High IQs A.M.E.F.P.S.B.W.H.Q for short. If your puny human brain cannot comprehend the superior Mutant Language, the pronounciation in your equally-puny human language is PHUCK. called to denounce the xenophobia of one of their former members, Mutant Whiskey-boy. Here is the text of their official Press Statement circulated at the meeting.]

As the official organisation representing the interests of all Mutant Elves all over the world, we hereby would like to express our extreme disdain and denounce the description made by one of our own members (soon to be expelled), Mutant Whiskey-boy, with regard to his inaccurate description of the size of our brains. We have always championed our Brain Size which, as our esteemed members of this organisation would know, has a brain power of 10000000x more than the average human.

In fact, we have championed for the right of having a Pea-Sized Brain for a millenia. As the members would also know, we have served the cause of having Pea-Sized Brains in all Mutant Elves, which is scientifically proven to have high IQs. Size does not matter. Have you seen our former Lord President, Mutant Yoda in action against the evils of Darth Sidious? He certainly has a Pea-Sized Brain. So did Mutant ET, another Mutant Elf and a former Committee Member of our Association.

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My article on the issue of “misyar” type of marriages, entitled “The deal with misyar” has been published on Rentakini. Actually I’ve already published the same thing under my own column “Haqq Means Truth” at Bukan Islam Liberal, but it does wonders to the, uh, ego, to see your piece in an online webzine apart from yours. Heh.

I think An Islamic Blogtal is ready for Alpha testing. I have been pinging to the blogtal for some time and alhamdulillah, no problems so far. For now, the blogtal is open only to those blogs which has a trackback feature. Sorry, Blogger users…we’ll set up a manual ping form once we are sure that we can move ahead.

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