Thoughts on this and that...

In no particular order...

Mior Atiqulrahman’s case;
Am terribly disturbed by the fact that the judge mentioned Abu Jahal as a yardstick of people wearing the serban knowing fully well that the defendants wore the serban as a sunnah of Rasulullah. Like somebody wrote elsewhere – “serban nabi itu akan digunakan untuk memberi syafaat kepada orang yang kehendakinya di padang mahsyar esok manakala serban Abu Jahal, dimasukkan ke neraka dengan tuannya sekali”
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Lina Joy’s case:
She and her legal team are being provocative, and they know it. If her case is given the go-ahead, it probably will open a floodgate of people renouncing Islamic faith openly, not limiting to just being part of over 2-meter-high stack of murtad cases pending in Mahkamah Syariah.

Muslim men cheating on their wives:
Jordan of Macvaysia contributed an article worth pondering in Rentakini.

Post World Cup 2006:
Here’s hoping that Zidane would not be stripped of the best player title by FIFA after all.
Hubby is pretty lucky because he married someone who would not fight for the remote to watch something other than a soccer match because I’m a fan of World Cup too. (I once watched a Brazil-England match during World Cup 2002 at the office, just because I could not wait to watch a re-run later on) World Cup has always been a big thing in my family – we would usually hang the World Cup planner courtesy of Berita Harian or Utusan Malaysia on the wall and noted every single match’s point till the end. Of course it’s a lot easier nowadays since we can always refer to the Net for updates, but sometimes, it can be more fun doing it the old style.

This year have seen World Cup allowing Christian to make headlines such as highlighting that the Pope cut short his visit to Spain to watch the World Cup final and his soccer loyalties was questioned when his native Germany lost to the Italians in Dortmund in the semi-finals, not to mention that SAT-7, a Christian satellite network, used the World Cup as a pretext to produce a series of programs about Christian sports heroes, dubbing them into Arabic to air in the Middle East and North Africa.

When I read how over-religious Mullah had asked someone to put down Brazilian flag from his shop’s window in war-torn Iraq and how two innocent men were gunned down in Somalia due to watching the ‘banned’ World Cup – it’s really sad. World Cup could have been a great opportunity to show that Muslims are everywhere and trying their best to achieve peace – like how the the Toure brothers in Ivory Coast team contributed towards stopping the Christian-Muslim conflict in their country. Or that Muslims are present even in European teams, not just in Saudi and Iraq teams, with Franck Ribery (France), Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Rami Shaaban (Sweden), Robin van Persie and Khalid Boulahrouz (Holland). For good measure, maybe people should note that Bruno Metsu and Philippe Troussier – both French, the former, the coach for Senegal while the latter a former coach for Japan – are Muslims too.

Siti and Datuk K:
It’s her life, she’s an adult. If it is a mistake, let her make her own mistake.
Oh, by the way, this song dedicated to Siti and Datuk K is hilarious.

Summer break:
Two more papers to submit next week and then - Natsu Yasumi… Yatta!!!
By the by, yes Yana, with all the flash floods, mud-floods, land erosion and the continuous rain, it certainly doesn’t feel like Natsu after all, kan.