Posts Tagged ‘islam’

Pakistan Iftar Timing Alerts via Twitter

UPDATE: For iftar timings for Lahore in 2009, you can follow iftartime on twitter. If you use twitter, you can follow iftar2008pak to get iftar (and later on, sehri) alerts for Lahore (and later on, other cities). Right now, iftar2008pak will send out a tweet 15 minutes and zero minutes before iftar – due to […]

Pakistan Problems Propaganda and Prejudice

Two months ago, this Urdu + English “sponsored link” ad for a website worstnation.com started showing up in my Gmail every day. I will not link to it for obvious reasons, but here’s what is says: دنیا کی سب سے بدترین قوم www.WorstNation.com پاکستان سے زندہ بھاگ آپ یقیناً اتفاق کریں گے۔ The Urdu text […]

On the Turning Away

This song came up on my playlist just as I published the previous post, so I had to share it. Consider spending six minutes of your life listening to Pink Floyd. I tried looking for a ‘moderate’ flavored documentary, but couldn’t find any good video that didn’t mention the US of A. Warning: it contains […]

Google Says No ‘Doodle For You!’

It started with the perceptive ProPakistani people noticing how Google has never had an Islam themed doodle on their homepage, and Dr. Awab picked up the discussion the next day. I personally think that Google not showing any Doodles for Islamic events has something to do with their “Do No Evil” policy  😉 Seriously though, […]

Celebrating Ramadan

I have invented this thing that I call “Roza-rolling” in the spirit of ‘rick-rolling’. It involves a Google image search on queries like “chicken roast” or “bbq meat”, wrapping a tinyurl around it, and throwing it towards my fellow Pakistani ‘Rozadaars’ on Twitter – during fasting hours. Thankfully, they don’t mind (I hope) due to […]