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How embarrassing is this going to get for the rest of the world. As if all these measures to screen visitors were not enough that now they are thinking of tagging all the visitors with tracer chips. This is simply humiliating! Via METAFILTER

   Optimistic frame of mind is a must to live a life (mind you this is being said on a completely pessimistic bloggers blog!)__Now I beg your leave as I have to go think optimistically!!!

EID MABROOK.    Moiz Khan wishes all his readers a very happy Eid-ul-Adha. Enjoy your meat and remember the needy in your festivities.

Loads of Downloads.    Just recently I have upgraded few of my softwares. Amongst these are MSN Messenger , Adobe Acrobat Reader and W.Bloggar . I must say that I am not disappointed by any of these. At this point in time my dear friend Uzer will like to ask, I am sure, whether these newer versions have any performance benefit over there pre decessors. And like always my reply would be the same that how would I know!    For mere mortals like myself the reason in using a programme mostly lies in its easy to use interface and its slick looking newer icons. I would least of all bother about the technical aspect of the programme, something that the developers like to hide anyway.

Try the Political compass to find out your 'direction'. As for me I am a left libertarian . Standing right beside me are Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Mugabe, Nelson Mendela, The Delai Lama.

Stranded.    A few days back I was going through my class email and came across this email, by one of my friends who is currently doing electives abroad somewhere in Europe. I present it here for food for thought. assalam o alaikum everybody, Didn't see this coming----I cant seem to defend things that I believe in so strongly------this is jist of the number of questions patients have for me----------nope 'faith' and 'cause my religion tells me so' are obviously not good enough justifications for doing anything here--------I want convincing(by European logic standard) ans to these Why dont we eat pork? why don't we eat non kosher?why is all types of fish allowed? Is there true democracy in any of the Islamic countries--isn't it the religion that is then pulling these countries down when they are so rich in oil resources? Why the extremism?------yes it goes against the spirit of religion but isn't it afterall done in the name of religion? What religi...

You are a PROGRESSIVE Muslim. You could be from any sect, religious or not, and may have leftist/activist tendencies. Anything goes with you. Everyone else is some sort of fanatic. What Muslim stereotype are you? brought to you by Quizilla