https://medium.com/@mozaffar/10-observations-on-american-islam-s-challenges-in-2015-b66e27f975b7#.yygpmptvp

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/253748

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/253748

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/253748

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/images-reveal-where-negative-stereotypes-about-feminists-come-from_5682bd7de4b06fa688813356

http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/orgasm-inequality/

http://brightside.me/article/17-favorite-movies-before-and-after-visual-effects-64705/

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/248063

http://www.survivalgrit.com/how-to-create-a-complete-self-sustaining-homestead-on-1-acre-of-land/

I don't like talking to button pushers about things that require critical thinking.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/slactivism-works-study-shows-people-who-like-and-retweet-political-slogans-help-protesters-spread-a6764611.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/08/toward-a-new-understanding-of-modesty/278652/?utm_source=SFFB

http://viralwomen.com/post/i_named_my_rapist_on_facebook_i_wasnt_prepared_for_what_happened_next

If i type 'i want a burger' into the far reaches of the internet, someone is going to bring me a burger, right?

https://newrepublic.com/article/123590/sex-and-the-muslim-feminist

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-lesson-about-happiness-from-a-holocaust-survivor-2014-10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiCLd1Go0zc

http://muslimgirl.net/15125/job-turning-you-white/

https://keziahereandthere.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/alternative-nativity/

http://www.estherperel.com/2015/12/relationship-accountability/

http://www.thenation.com/article/contradiction-and-diversity/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rhode/bankruptcy-court-tells-de_b_8863970.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/muslim-americans-discuss-attitudes-toward-israel/

solutions with my blood and body.

emotional labor compilation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-vJHzKhXmDyYkVoNDFuYVZaR0p5djBtNlh2ay1DNlJuQndJ/view

http://goodinaroom.com/blog/black-list/?omhide=true&inf_contact_key=bebcb79facff560e35808187e8b6fe59eefe8ed57f4d4618990b58c9558958cf

http://45.media.tumblr.com/b66d5f89982e2c11073a37acaa9c50c5/tumblr_nz0ao8dzfo1r4enhno1_540.gif

http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/

How can millennials who move around a lot care about voting in municipal elections?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/living/mosques-attack-study-2015/index.html

"Is it 1932, and are we living in Germany? People ask, "How did it happen?"

If you never studied it, please read up on how kristallnacht happened. You'll find how easy it was to make the Final Solution acceptable.

The propaganda started to pick up steam in the 1930s and in 1933 Hitler was elected. In 1938, more than 1,400 synagogues across Germany were torched, and Jewish-owned shops and businesses were plundered and destroyed.

In 2015, more than 63 American mosques and Islamic centers have been the victims of vandalism and harassment and Muslims have reported being attacked in parks while praying, bullied at school and spat on while driving.

This is following the same pattern. Check yourselves.

Love>Hate

‪#‎stopH8‬ ‪#‎stophate‬" - faeza

https://www.facebook.com/MuslimFest/videos/1041118659243015/
1) how touching and appropriate to sing a song of welcome to a new life in a new land than a song from the islamic tradition that does just that from its own history
2) canadians are more welcoming to immigrants than americans are to americans (who look like me)
3)  may the refugees bring to their new cities nobility

broad specific, broad specific, like a heartbeat

LA excuses and enables sociopaths much like DC.  Same meh different 'industry'.

picture frames
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/art/5337234392.html

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/fuo/5352582881.html

http://www.upworthy.com/this-is-how-a-lifetime-of-potentially-dangerous-situations-affects-every-woman1?c=ufb1

1) Muslim 6th grader brutally beaten by schoolmates who called her isis and tore at her hijab
 http://www.mintpressnews.com/muslim-sixth-grader-brutally-beaten-by-schoolmates-who-called-her-isis-tore-at-her-hijab/211928/

2) http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nightly-show-reports-islamophobia

3) http://patch.com/pennsylvania/phoenixville/man-allegedly-flashed-gun-muslim-women-limerick-outlets-report-0?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&utm_term=police+%26+fire&utm_campaign=recirc&utm_content=aol

4) State employee investigated after allegedly hitting, throwing coffee on praying Muslim man http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cdcr-employee-investigated-muslim-praying-20151209-story.html

5)

Texans begin nightly smashing windows of Muslim family only six weeks after they move in

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/texans-begin-nightly-smashing-windows-of-muslim-family-only-six-weeks-after-they-move-in/

6) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/us/assertions-of-hate-crime-in-seattle-after-a-somali-american-teenager-falls-to-his-death.html?_r=0


7) http://www.salon.com/2015/12/10/muslim_civil_rights_groups_d_c_office_evacuated_by_police_after_receiving_foreign_substance_in_mail/

8) http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-man-blasts-muslims-hits-worker-nyc-eatery-article-1.2462061

9) http://abc7news.com/news/suspicious-substance-prompts-santa-clara-office-evacuation/1118029/

10) https://www.facebook.com/billoozahra/posts/10101779952942137

11) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/andre-carson-death-threat_56683eb9e4b0f290e521411c

12) https://www.facebook.com/laila.abdelaziz/posts/10156290218810641

13) https://www.facebook.com/noraabdullah09/posts/10156409662275128

14) http://www.kesq.com/news/possible-arson-fire-investigated-at-coachella-mosque/36918766

15) http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/muslim-woman-shot-at-and-another-nearly-run-off-the-road-in-tampa-after-leaving-mosques/

16) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/three-percenters-armed-muslim-americans_566b7a7ce4b011b83a6b6c25

fear of takeover so old: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206874350270049&set=a.2153086299473.119683.1015867346&type=3

17) http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/georgia-school-says-teacher-had-no-ill-intent-asking-muslim-student-if-she-had-a-bomb-in-her-backpack/

intv with trump supporters: https://www.facebook.com/msnbc/videos/1066241166805468/

https://www.facebook.com/thisisinsider/videos/1491740331133360/?pnref=story


stats shooters vs doctors https://www.facebook.com/JeremyMcLellanComedy/posts/1001804606527381

getting personal:
kate downing khaled
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10106971910402600&set=a.10100296945296180.2974095.13949034&type=3

so stop oversimplifying bc
https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10153373408706939/

and get some friends of a different race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three-quarters-of-whites-dont-have-any-non-white-friends/?postshare=9501449859126124&tid=ss_fb

If you're patient enough to sit through the crazy talk and the boring bits, you may be able to clean some gems from the whole and maybe even notice some patterns with the new pieces at hand.

why are people who like me incompetent or possessive?  why can't i get loyal folks who are competent and respectful of boundaries?

It's easier to give someone one's body than to give them one's address.

How do we form governments and relationships with so much travel.  The local is not local.  The day to day is not in one place.  But it's still one heart and one story trying to stay whole and fulfilled.

never compromise on personal truths to fit so-called divine truths.

Had two dreams last night:

1) There was an oval spaceship killing off its inhabitants emanating from one point in the oval all the way around in both directions.  only one person could walk into the dead zones and see what was happening.  everyone in the living zones (for now) had no idea how far they could venture and tried to keep as far to the middle of the living zone as possible.  the last view in the dream was the pov of the one person who could venture into the dead zone watching as darkness fell on the edges of the living zone, marking them for death next.

2) I was listening to the friend on a giant cruise ship tell me how she lost her u-line boat after rescuing it from left so many times only to have it capsize just a few meters away.  I thought, hey, I'm a good swimmer and can retrieve it (a whole boat?!).  I swam out to flip the boat over and it kept sinking, i pulled it back up and bent it assuming the curves were the problem, then realized it was a woman's shoe, suddenly just as small.  very midnight blue and sparkly.  surprised i let it sink in the clear tropical water.  then i was afraid of what was in the water underneath me and decided to swim back to the ship very slowly.  woke up in the tension.

I'm going to run away to the woods whenever I want!

words and beauty.

Pulled out of one narrative into another.

personal needs + limits of reality = reasonable expectations