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Date: May 14, 2004 | 24 Rabi al-Awwal 1425 Hijriah
Subjects: website, blogs
For the time being, I have decided to close comments on all blog entries older than today (comments on this entry are still open). I am not able to be online as much as I would like and I'm tired of coming back online every day or two to find half a dozen comments attacking my religion as evil, calling me a liar because I say that it is not, or advocating for mass murder of Muslims (links to these comments available on request if you doubt that they exist).

I'd like to give a special shout-out to Carol and Mama. Thank you, Carol, for taking the time to respond to some of my other blog entries, about how my life is going, and for your support and encouragement. And thanks also to Mama for contributing in a positive manner to some of the other discussions. I realize that I haven't posted much lately and perhaps driven all my good readers away, but it really gets me down to see so much negativity all the time.

Some people are already no doubt crying censorship, but here's a newsflash for you: this webspace I paid for with my own money and there's really no reason why I need to give people a platform at my own expense to spew. If you want free webspace where you can say whatever you want, go to Blogger. I have tried responding to each of the people who have commented here and have seen no interest in actual dialogue or exchange of information and knowledge leading to mutual learning. I'm sorry, but it's not worth it anymore.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 11:32 AM

Comments

darulharb said: Total comments: 61   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

What, no shout-out? That hurts.

~ Posted at May 14, 2004 12:48 PM | Comment Permalink
ubaid said: Total comments: 6  

Subject: not censorship

Disallowing hate filled attacks is certainly not censorship, and you don't need to be on the defensive either. It is entirely within your rights (and common practice amongst most blogs with large readership) to disallow comments that are posted by trolls whose sole purpose is to villify and instigate. You keep up the good work! smile

~ Posted at May 14, 2004 12:51 PM | Comment Permalink
Sara said: Total comments: 2  

Sorry to hear that ...but i totally understand ! Anyway....i think you are awesome and inspirational...don't let any of those jerks tell you otherwise! smilie

~ Posted at May 14, 2004 07:18 PM | Comment Permalink
DavidH said: Total comments: 2  

Subject: Enough

Sorry to hear that things have been getting you down. All the negative comments must be very depressing, but please note
that there are those of us out her who share your views and wish to support you in putting over an accurate picture of Islam. I for one
very much appreciate your site and your blogs - so your efforts do have a very positive effect on some non-Muslims. Peace and good wishes.
David



~ Posted at May 14, 2004 11:19 PM | Comment Permalink
Traveller said: Total comments: 6  

Salam (Peace) Sister,

You must be getting at a raw nerve with the trolls and hate peddlers.
Since they can't argue, with the truth, they prefer to smear lies and let their frustration out on you. (they even try to use Arabic sounding names to twist the truth)

I commend you on your eloquence, balance, and sticking with presenting your arguments despite the continuous harrasment you are under.
You are informing and contributing very positively, to muslims and non-muslims alike.
We are all human beings after all, despite what the fear traders would like us to believe.

Keep up the good work!

~ Posted at May 15, 2004 03:58 AM | Comment Permalink
John said: Total comments: 2  

Asalamu alaykum sister,

I really appreciate your website and FAQs/articles and what you have done up to this point. May Allah reward you for your patience and bring the ease after the hardship and rough stuff. Asalamu alaykum wa rahmattallah,

John

PS: I'm not using that old yahoo email anymore, I'm just trying not to circulate the new one too much, when unecessary

~ Posted at May 15, 2004 05:27 PM | Comment Permalink
John said: Total comments: 2  

PS: don't need to reply back to slander and insult. Inshallah the angels are defending and deny what people slander about you. And the people saying those things ought to repent and pray that the angels are not cursing them, that would be serious thing. Fear Allah (that means "God" in arabic if you hadn't learned anything yet, by the way). jazakallah khayr again sister, asalamu alaykum wa rahmattalla

~ Posted at May 15, 2004 05:34 PM | Comment Permalink
ian said: Total comments: 1  

Subject: Keep Up the Good Work

Keep up the good, don't let these people ruin a good site like this.

~ Posted at May 16, 2004 02:23 AM | Comment Permalink
Surviving said: Total comments: 1  

Subject: Enough

Assalaam Alaikum, I just wanted to send you a little note letting you know that I appreciate your site and the time you must spend. Thank you!

~ Posted at May 16, 2004 03:31 AM | Comment Permalink
Natalie said: Total comments: 6  

I'm really sorry that some people are such jerks that you've had to do this. While you and I differ on a number of (mostly social) issues, I can't even conceive of being disrespectful of your beliefs and I don't understand people who are.

~ Posted at May 16, 2004 06:15 AM | Comment Permalink
shannon said: Total comments: 1  

Sorry to hear how much trouble you get. I agree that you should go ahead and shut off the nastiness. That isn't censorship, it's your blog and your right to disinvite jerks from wasting your time or getting you down.
Glad you're here!
Peace.

~ Posted at May 16, 2004 07:32 AM | Comment Permalink
moderator Al-Munaqabah said: Total comments: 996   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

Subject: thank you!

Thank you to everybody who posted such wonderful, supportive comments! I was really feeling down two days ago but I feel much happier now. smile It's folks like you who remind me why I blog.

~ Posted at May 16, 2004 11:52 AM | Comment Permalink
Peter Lance said: Total comments: 2  

Subject: Kucinich

Did you see the NY Times article about Kucinich? (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/politics/campaign/17kucinich.html)
I thought that you might be interested.

~ Posted at May 16, 2004 07:42 PM | Comment Permalink
P6 said: Total comments: 2  

I'm not too late to commiserate, am I? You KNOW I can relate, sis.

I never thought I'd say it, but you got it harder than Black folks, and it's not right because you're not the one that started that s**t.


~ Posted at May 16, 2004 08:55 PM | Comment Permalink
moderator Al-Munaqabah said: Total comments: 996   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

Subject: Re: enough

Thanks for dropping by, bro. Yeah, I know you hear me loud and clear. I keep hoping that one of these years, we humans will move on to a better level than this, but I'm not holding my breath waiting.

~ Posted at May 17, 2004 03:35 PM | Comment Permalink
Mama said: Total comments: 2  

Subject: Enough

Thanks for the compliment....
Can you start a blog on how Rumsfield should be fired for his policy of cruelty to prisoners? I never liked that man.....and he is the one who should be held responsible for the atrocities in the prisons in Iraq and also Afghanistan....I can say that the Sundance TV channel is playing some pretty moving and reality films about what affect the war is having on the citizens there, the only problem is they only show them at odd hours when the general public is sleeping. Your work on this site has been great.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Sincerely,
Mama

~ Posted at May 17, 2004 09:09 AM | Comment Permalink
Yusuf Smith said: Total comments: 4  

Subject: I get the same trouble

As-Salaamu 'alaikum, you really don't need to show me the nasty comments because I get enough of them on my blog. I know for a fact that the same abusive poster (Flanstein/Bimsalabim) has bothered me, Amir Brooks, Ginny Quick, Saraji, Niqaabi 4Ever and other Muslim bloggers. A few days ago I blogged about something totally unrelated to Islam and this moron posted an abusive anti-Islamic message. I check my blog quite often now and delete anything abusive or insulting.

~ Posted at May 18, 2004 12:04 PM | Comment Permalink
Ikram said: Total comments: 4  

You still have the best Muslim-themed blog on the net, which partly explains why jerks target you. Closing old comments is a sensible move. Keep up the great job.



~ Posted at May 18, 2004 02:30 PM | Comment Permalink

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