Today’s Friday Prayer’s Topic Would Be…

I still didn’t go to prayer yet, but I already know what the Imam will be discussing: Michael Jackson’s and Farrah Fawcett’s deaths vs the recent Iraq bombing and Iran elections.

It’s such a classic topic discussed whenever some major idol dies (in the Arab/nonArab/Muslim/nonMuslim worlds). The other time when this Lebanese singer, Suzan Tamim, got shot in Dubai Marina, the Imams made a huge fuss about how everyone is investigating and mourning the death “of a singer whore” instead of investigating the massacres done against Muslims everywhere. Added to that, this episode is teaching our kids that pop idols are more important than our brothers and sisters in Palestine/Iraq/wherever.

What I find interesting that, though to no surprise, the Imams think of the Muslim problems to be the top priority and only to be solved. Sure, I don’t disagree they’re important. Massacres have to be stopped.

But during the du3a2 phase of the khutba, he doesn’t bother himself to pray for the starving and desperately malnutritioned in Africa. He didn’t bother to pray for the lost lives in the Sri Lanka tsunami, except explicitly mentioning he Muslim survivors. So, the others deserved it? Apparently, according to him – for the tsunami is the wrath of God of course sent to punich everyone there for some grave sin they’ve done.

Which grave sin? Sending in their women here as maids so they can feed the family back home, and you end up raping them? The tsunami should have gone the other direction. Our Muslim Imams need to wake up to life and start giving a better image of Muslims and stop alienating Muslims themselves from their own religion.

Yes, the world grieves that MJ is dead. I grieve too – whether or not you’ve been too hot about all his ‘odd’ things, alleged pedophilia or whatever, you can’t deny his music did something. Heck, most of  my generation grew up on his music.

What will happen if Fairuz dies? Expect us to just sit quiet through it, because she is a “singer whore” and not a martyr? Maybe they will make an exception, she did sing an ode to Palestine several times.




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  • I like the mosque that I pray at. the sheikh there actually goes on the internet and researches about distressed Muslim communities about the world and tells us their tales and their sufferings. this time he told us about a minority in china and how they are being abused by authorities and denied the right to perform friday prayers and even build some mosques in their district.
  • How dare you call Infidel??? You should be killed! OH Y'ALLLL let's chop this niggas head off!

    Well, I think I am an infidel after all! But who is not?
  • jarofjuice
    Roba -
    Maybe I should pick up a good book and give it to the Imams. Thanks for the recommendation :)

    Some -
    I don't know who that is!

    Hicham -
    I agree, too bad the Imams think it's their duty to punish everyone
  • What you should do is searching for a good masjed .

    Like the one me and my family waiting Fridays just to listen to al 5o6ba there :D

    It's masjed "Abu ghazalah" in "da7yat al 2ameer Rashed" Suburb of Prince Rashid in Amman, if any one like to try to visit it :D

    I can call this Masjed my third space :)
  • I know what you mean. I do believe there's quite difference between "Islam" and "Muslims" in terms how the later interpret the former, and this is notably in actions of many muslims and narrow-minded mentalities. Same as for any other religion when it comes to naroow minded metnalites.

    Islam came as mercy for mankind not hell to burn them and in all cases, only Allah (God) shall ask everyone about what he/she did!
  • some
    I guess you are right some of firday cermons are a bit repetative and not useful but i still think that Mohamamed al Nabelsi makes a great khateeb :)
  • Exactly why you should stop going to Friday cermons. Two cents of thought: if you spend the hour you'd spend listening to a usually un-educated man yelling about something rather irrelevant, spend it reading a really good book about Islam. My first recommendation: Tareekh Il Kholafa2 written by Jalal Al Deen Al-Siooti.
  • jarofjuice
    vagueraz -
    I have psychic powers, fear me!

    sabeur -
    I can't find those who aren't, been a long time since I went to a good mosque

    Ramy -
    Infidel :P ten years ago you barely made anything out of your own genitals

    SAC -
    We are taught that too, it is a fundamental aspect of Islam to respect all other religions. What's been happening recently is just, well, nonsense, to best describe it. Any sane Muslim will tell you God created all of us in the same image and we are all equal, and that the only difference between us is how much faith we have.
  • I don't know about Islam but in Christianity we are taught not to judge others this is not our place it is Gods. (of course there are always those who claim to be Christians but do the opposite of what they are taught). We are all Gods people whether we are Muslim or Christian. God after all did create ALL OF US. We are all equal in his eyes.- We can however protect ourselves and lock up criminals but only God should judge them. This does bring up an interesting question though where exactly is the fine line, what exactly is considered "judging someone"? Is it simply the way you word a statement or phrase?
  • Ramy
    That's why I stopped going...10 years ago!
  • Hahaha so true - big Hypocrites (some)
  • Good morning ,,,

    lol,, nice that you know the el jom3a khutba b4 going to el masjed ,,
    loool...

    6b ta3aaal 3la 7alak w rooo7 :p lol
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