New NISAA entry & Travel Blogging

Salaam alaikum,

I have a new entry over at NISAA entitled Dealing with the Muslim Cause.  Go have a look-see.  :-)

As for blogging in the UAE & Qatar, well that depends on time and internet access.  It really depends on how much interent access will cost.  So I may blog a little but if you don’t hear from me by Saturday, November 3rd, you can assume I won’t be blogging (or online for that matter) until November 12th.  I will try to upload pictures while I’m out there if the circumstances permit.  Actually, I’m hoping I’ll have such knee-slapping fun that I’ll be too tired to blog!!!!

Subhan’Allah was alhamdulillah wa la ilaha illa Allahu wa Allah akbar.

Hee-hee, I’m giddy.  :-)

Flower on a Parisian Balcony




Flower on a Parisian Balcony

Originally uploaded by Izzy Mo

Salaam alaikum

So much to blog about but very little time.

Thank you everyone for your logo feedback. It’s been a trememdous help. I’ll get back to the logo and business name after the trip.

I would love to blog about the stupidity of Islamo-Fasco-sumthin’-whateva but after reading the articles and reactions, it looks like the far right has lost its mind. In the words of Brother David Chappelle from his pivotal role in the film Half Baked, “You done smoked yourself retarded!” I mean, really! They are hermorraging with hate. And Michelle Malkin calling her own people smelly? @@

And the earth is crying out. Floods in New Orleans, fires in Cali and droughts in Georgia and the ME. Please pray for the vicitms of all these affliciations and pray for God to send some rains to the people living with drought and famine.

Be back soon. :-)

a possible logo




possible logo

Originally uploaded by Izzy Mo

I’m just playing around with Microsft word. This is just an idea. Nothing written in stone but what do you think?

And what looks better: Gallery Izdihar or Gallerie Izdihar? One is in English and the other is in French. Ya know, the French are supposed to be, like, the masters of art and stuff. :-)

And for some reason, no other business name is coming to me other than the above. If you have other suggestions, ler me know but it seems like Gallery(ie) Izdihar is sticking. I’m terrible with naming things.

The Utopian Dream..or Nightmare?

Please listen to this.

Imam Suhaib Webb

Against the Utopian Vision

I’ll be back on this subject later. 

Aaminah’s Vase




Aaminah’s Vase

Originally uploaded by Izzy Mo

Some Positive News

I haven’t done this in a while. 

And yes, I’m trying to blog in green for anti-Islamo-Facso-Whateva week! 

Don’t hem and haw over green being the unofficial color of Islam. 

Green, no matter what shade, goes with everything!

But on to the positive news…don’t you love it when bigoted, racist, Fascists get exactly what they ask for?

Islamo-Fascist Moniker Meaningless

Yes, it is one of the dumbest political terms ever but look at the administration who created it.

Islamo Fascism Follies

Civil Rights Activist Walter Fountroy discredits Islamo–you know the rest. :-)

You gotta love the photo that goes along with this article.  Campus Progress takes a shot at the wrong-wing extremists. 

Calling Islamo-Fascism for what it is: a new invention from plain old fashioned racism.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow speaks out.

The Jewish Alliance rejects David Horowitz’s rhetoric.

Next Stop: Qatar and the UAE

Salaam alaikum,

Well, I can’t keep it bottled up anymore.  Insha’Allah, on November 1st, I will be traveling to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.  I’m having one of those, “This can’t be real” moments. 

Somebody, pinch me!

Each day brings more excitement and expectation.  I will be there until November 12th, which is awesome because after the 14 hour flight, I won’t feel like jumping right back on the plane to get back to the States.  I barely know how to prepare for this but prayer and research on the two countries is a good start.  While I’m in Qatar, I will attending the Islamic Art Symposium in Doha. And while I’m in Dubai, I will be checking out the art scene, of course, as Dubai is becoming the hot spot for arts in the Arab world.  Of course, as with all my trips, they will come with a flurry of pictures! 

Finally, Izzy Mo goes to….da, da, daaaaaaaaaa……the Mozzie World!!!!!  Oh, scary! LOL!!!!

So there it is, the cat’s out of the bag!  Pray that some rich people will buy up all my art! 

Envision it!  Gallerie Izdihar with locations in Paris, New Orleans, Atlanta and Dubai!!!!

Hee-hee!

PS:  Because someone asked me about this last time…no, I’m not going there to meet a suitor.  I will be writing my “Love & The Masjid” series for years to come. Trust me.  :-)

An Idea

Okay, how this…

We put all the so-called Muslim, so-called “jihadi” terrrorists and place them all the New Orleans Superdome.  You can also get these Muslims who kill, maim and bomb anyone who doesn’t submit to their ideology of death.  These spineless creeps who find their religious struggle in raping their own sisters in faith and bombing the mosques of Shias/Sunnis/Sufis/whoeva–haul them into the Superdome. 

Then we get all these cyber-nerd, internet war-morgering chicken hawks and put them in the Superdome, too.  You know, those freaks who go on and on about how we fight them there so we don’t them here.  Haul them into the Dome kicking and screaming. 

Add to this volatile mix all of the pro-war people who scream “bomb Iraq and Iran” when they don’t even know where these countries are. 

Oh, yeah, throw all the tin-pot dictators of the Arab and Muslim world who claim to love us while locking up activists and students who are trying to change Arab and Muslim societies for the better. 

Last but not least, add pundits and celebrities like Ann Coutler, David Horowitz, Irshad Manji, Ayan Hirsi Ali, Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan, Salman Rushdie and..all of them.  I mean, all of the opportunistic, racist, media whores and schlock jockeys…and put them in the Superdome. 

Yeah, put all these people in the New Orleans Superdome.  Why?  I’m goin’ tell ya why!  :-)

Think that maybe, we can get all these people to fight each other purely for our entertainment.  I mean, the ruling corporate elite has given us enough bread and circuses to keep us distracted from reality for years.  Like make the bread and circuses have some meaning–let’s give it a purpose!  Let all these corrupt, diseased, hateful people fight each other so they can leave the sensible majority alone.  Think about..wouldn’t you love to see Bill O’Reilly in leotards running from some young wannabe jihadi screaming at him in incoherent Arabic? 

People would pay beaucoup for this! 

We charge $150 for the tickets (hey, the Dome can fit 70,000 people) and we offer it Pay-per-view.  Plus we could get corporate sponsorship!  We would make enough money to build strong, sturdy levees and fund the Louisiana health care budget for three years!!!!!!  This could also lead to some sorta of psycho-Islamo-fasco-right-wing-racist-nutball celebrity death match series where each season, we bring these jerks to account.

If you want war, suffering and chaos, fine! 

But you will not drag the rest of humanity down with you and if possible, we will try to make money of your clinical insanity.  We can have these matches in poverty-ridden areas and watch as the dregs of humanity suffer due to their own hatred. 

Bring back the days of the Roman Coliseum! 

The only way they can forfeit is to recognize that they have let their hearts become black with hate.  They have to make a promise to either stop their hateful rhetoric or be shown the mercy of Celebrity Death Match Pit!!!

That’s it.  I’m so tired of these hypocrites.  May Allah guide them!

Random Natterings of a Tired (but Thankful) Muslima

So, David Horowitz wants to save me.  Wow, and Ann “women shouldn’t have been given the right to vote” Coulter wants to liberate me.  Well, permit me to put down the frying pan and babe that I’m currently nursing.  Oh, wait, I’m not married with children.  Oops.  Subhan’Allah, if they’re saving me, I would hate to think of what their leaving me to rot would look like!

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Business plans are tedious.  They need to be done if you want to have a written reference for your business.  You really need it if some great benefactor decides to unload a whole bunch of money into your enterprise.  Who knows, maybe I will become the Southern Muslima version of Picasso.  One can only dream.  Insha’Allah, this thing will be done for October 25th.  That’s the day I plan on finishing the first draft.  What really makes it annoying is that you must develop a marketing plan to go along with it.  Oh well, once it’s done, I know I won’t regret it. 

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The world is coming to an end. 

Yes, I’m about defend Britney Spears. 

:::cue suspense music:::

I know she’s got problems but who doesn’t?  Just a few years ago, those same journalists who were praising her are now slamming her.  Sorry, but that’s not fair.  I remember when she came out with that silly “Oops” song and everybody was acting like she was the best thing since sliced bread.  But, oh no! Now we see that’s she’s human.  We see that no amount of money in the world can protect us from heart ache and pain.  I think there’s a sick twisted side to American pop culture where we like to see young beautiful blondes make a lot of money, perform sexy dance moves, and be our secular versions of Aphrodite only to crash, burn and self distruct inside of a rehab clinic.

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I should be a good business girl and get back to this silly business which is taking forever and ever amen.  :-)

Shiny Happy Muslims!!!!


DSCF2985

Originally uploaded by Izzy Mo

Yeah, I’m finally getting around to my entry on Eid in Atlanta. The weather was awesome for Muslim Day. And I got some great pictures, including this lil’ Muslima snuggled up with her daddy. She’s just so cute.

I have my flickr sildeshow of Eid in Atlanta right here.

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