The long awaited (and delayed) post is now here. I know, I know you’ve all been waiting anxiously for my rant. I don’t blame you– my rants ARE usually randomly awesome, hehe j/k.

For all of you who wish to comment on any blog, this is a good article to read before doing so.

First, let me just say on Egyptian Gumbo, all comments are welcome, even the stupid ones.They are welcome to find their way under this very post, and for those of you whom I’ve moderated, they are welcome to come to my inbox where I either let them go through or delete them.

But I love them all, even the deleted ones. (There is a certain satisfaction that comes with deleting… ahhh.)
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The Attention Lover:

“FIRST!,” you say proudly– as if being the first to leave a comment will make you have more friends. “You’re GAY,” you say to any video you see on the web.

I’ll be you’re friend you poor, poor misunderstood geek. Being first doesn’t make you number one on the social scene. Sorry guys.

The Skeptic:

“PHOTOSHOPPED! FAKE!” to anything remotely amazing caught on camera.

Listen, if I want to watch a dog nursing a kitten, I WILL!

The Arguer:

These usually amount to about 30 comments back and forth between two people. Please know when enough is enough. Your back and forth disputing will avail to nothing. If you’re really serious about giving someone dawah take it off the forum and into your email, ok? Thaaanks.

The Unintelligent Debater:

These are usually the people who comment on very important indepth topics, and all they can say is “That’s silly!” or “My sheikh disagrees and my sheikh is much more knowledgeable than you!”

The Promoter:

These are the people who come and say.. “Heyyy everyone, look at what I wrote at www.gettingyouraudience.com. In general, that’s really OK and cool, but don’t come and pop by our sites only when you need to grab our readers, let’s hear from you more often .

The Internet Linguist

“PAWNED!” “W00T!” “OWNAGE!” “INCROYABLE!”

Seriously guys, no.

The Macho-Man:

This commenter loves to show what he/she would do if put in a similar situation. “Dude if that happened to me, I’d punch his face out! But great video.”

“You wanna come say that to my face?!”

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There are so many different commentators out there. But this post was dedicated to a specific category. I’m sure many of you can add on to this list if you thought about it…

Regardless of the types of comments out there, I appreciate everyone who comes by my site. But pay attention as you go blog hopping, I’m sure you’ll find some of these out there, hehe.

I’ve never seen such dedicated love to an evil person.

Last Tuesday, Muslims went into elections booths justifying their vote by saying their intention is to go out and pick the “lesser of the two evils.” Alhamdulillah, there is nothing wrong with the intention. And It’s pretty apparent Obama is the lesser of the evils and a McCain administration would have probably been horrible fate for Muslims. But even if that’s the case, it does not absolve Obama from the status of evil (even if it is lesser.)

People’s intentions were not reflected by their actions. The intention went from picking the lesser of the evil to becoming a huge fan of the candidate as if he were their idol.

After Obama had been announced the winner, people were so excited as if he was going to be the best thing that happened to the Muslims. I heard Muslims saying slogans like “Barack Mubarack” and “Ba-Rocked the Vote!”

The question is, why are Muslims so happy with a man who does not want to be associated with us at all? What about the “Muslim Smear?” What about the hijabi woman who was removed from one of his rallies?

Honestly, we’re very naive. It’s like an abusive father who hits his children. The child thinks that because the father say he won’t hit him anymore, he’s safe now. But afterward, the child learns of how naive it was trust a man who gave no reason to believe that he would actually be different.

Muslims were of the belief that Obama HAS to praise Israel in order to win the election (which is true.) And after he’s elected president, he’s going to be on the Muslim’s side. How much more obvious can it be that this is NOT TRUE. After all, look at the first thing he did after being elected; he picked a Zionist for his Chief of Staff.

Muslims are humiliating themselves while the world watches. It’s like one of those instances where a person is doing something so embarrassing that no one has the guts to tell the person they are making a fool of themselves. Like a girl walking with toilet paper on her shoe. For those of us who went all Obama crazy, we’re the ones with the toilet paper stuck to our shoes.

I can’t help but cringe at the sheep-like behavior coming from us. As much as we’d like to think that we are different and cannot be brainwashed by media, It saddens me to break the news that if we were of the ones that displayed campaign-crazed behavior, we in essence were brainwashed because followed the herd; we became like the mindless sheep the media wanted us to become.

Persuasion is best done when it is seamless, and Barack Obama had all elements to a successful persuasive campaign. After all, no one can deny he is charismatic; he is the “rock star.”

And let me just say the media is very manipulative.

If anything at all we should look at this from a historical perspective, and nothing more. No one can deny that this is a big step for human rights. And as Muslims, we should be very happy with the progress made.

Be the Black sheep.

Wallahu alem.

I’m a little busy to write posts these days, but I just wanted to tell all of you EID MUBARAK! Taqqbal Allah minna wa minkom!

InshaAllah, there are some great things to come after I settle down with all my work– so stay tuned.

P.S. Don’t forget to pay Zakaatul Fitr before Eid Salah

Shirien