Also published on Wordpress. First, I do acknowledge that forcing children to eat food they hate will backfire. …

Also published on Wordpress. Every time someone starts spewing anti-queer rhetoric and opposing any laws which guarantee equal rights for sexual and gender minorities, liberals and leftists often react in either two: insulting and berating the bigots OR citing benefits of equality. The latter refers to studies which purportedly claim…

Also published on Wordpress. I am not going to argue whether Jews are entitled to a place called Israel not. Jews are an an ethno-religious group with deep attachment to a specific land while I don’t belong to anything similar. I am a Muslim and Islam is not an ethnic…

Also published on Wordpress. I am certain some of you are familiar with the concept of lost media, in which works and records have no existing copies. They may be lost because of deliberate destruction of every known existing copy or through pure negligence. There are lost media which may…

Also published on Wordpress. Before Smosh, I was only occasionally exposed to Reddit stories. Now, thanks to the videos, I am more familiar with them. Many of the stories are undoubtedly infuriating. But, there is one which hits different: this is the first one which I find….. triggering. In this…

Also published on Wordpress. Pro-Palestine people are often criticised for spending too much time minding other countries while ignoring problems within their own turfs. Unfortunately, there is truth in the criticism. Yes, some of us — especially my fellow Muslims — are like that. We care too much about issues…

Also published on Wordpress. There are times when supporters of certain politicians love to mock the detractors as obsessive haters who let those politicians living rent-free in their heads. It is interesting they choose such mockery because it doesn’t discredit us, the haters, it only discredit them, the supporters. It…

Also published on Wordpress. Throughout the years in my blogposts, I have written about the people I have argued with, ranting about their narrow-mindedness, poor moral integrity and their lack of brain usage. Sometimes, I don’t talk about specific individuals, more about groups of them. When I do talk about…

Also published on Wordpress. About two months before I started writing this blogpost, I visited the US with my mom and sister. Specifically, NYC and DC. I am thirty-one and this was my second time visiting the US. The last time I was there, I was seven. My extended family…